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Google launches ARCore SDK in preview: AR on Android phones, no extra hardware required

Posted byby GamesBeat
August 29, 2017
3 min

Google today launched a preview of ARCore, an Android software development kit (SDK) that brings augmented reality to existing and future Android phones without...

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The DeanBeat: Intel’s 2014 Gamergate mistake paved the path for Google’s memo mess

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
August 11, 2017
5 min

Google is going through the throes of a diversity controversy over its firing of James Damore, the white man who wrote a diversity memo...

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This indie game offers a counterpoint to the Google manifesto

Posted byby GamesBeat
August 10, 2017
3 min

Elizabeth Sampat is an award-winning game designer who’s worked on blockbuster titles like Plants Vs Zombies 2 and Subway Surfers. She also makes small, intensely...

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VR can be a mainstream tech — but it’s not ready yet

Posted byby GamesBeat
August 8, 2017
3 min

Though it may seem virtual reality has emerged in the last few years, the technology has been around for quite some time. The term...

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Bait! fishing game maker Tommy Palm is hooked on mobile VR

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
August 6, 2017
10 min

Mobile virtual reality is hard, and it isn’t growing as fast as predicted. But Resolution Games CEO Tommy Palm is sticking with it. His...

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Carnegie Mellon’s ETC is like the Disneyland of video game schools

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
August 5, 2017
24 min

Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center became famous in part because of The Last Lecture. Computer scientist Randy Pausch and Donald Marinelli, a professor of drama,...

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Schell Games builds games that change players for the better

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 30, 2017
20 min

The video game industry is full of companies that make sequels and derivative titles. But Schell Games was started by game design professor Jesse...

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Adobe taps Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Mozilla to kill Flash by 2020

Posted byby GamesBeat
July 25, 2017
7 min

Flash will officially be dead in three years. Adobe today announced it will stop updating and distributing its Flash Player at the end of...

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Google Play’s Indie Games Festival now taking submissions until August 6

Posted byby GamesBeat
July 11, 2017
2 min

The second Google Play Indie Games Festival will be held in San Francisco on September 23, and it’s now accepting submissions. Developers can submit their...

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Game investor Phil Harrison sees the broader view of games beyond Sony and Microsoft

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 2, 2017
7 min

Phil Harrison was probably the tallest person at the Gamelab gaming event in Barcelona, Spain, this week. And that, along with his decades of...

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