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App Annie 2015: Google Play saw 100% more downloads than the iOS App Store, but Apple generated 75% more revenue

Posted byby GamesBeat
January 20, 2016
2 min

In 2015, Google Play saw 100 percent more downloads than Apple’s App Store. Double the number of downloads is a huge achievement. In 2014,...

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GamesBeat Summit 2016’s initial speakers include King’s CEO, Google’s chief game designer

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
January 15, 2016
5 min

We’re pleased to introduce our first two speakers for the second annual GamesBeat Summit 2016, an event that’s set for May 3 and May 4...

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Nvidia blames Apple for bug that exposes porn browsing in Chrome’s incognito mode

Posted byby GamesBeat
January 13, 2016
3 min

If you use Google Chrome’s incognito mode to hide what you browse (ahem, porn), this might pique your interest. University of Toronto engineering student...

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Google’s Project Tango will enable cool augmented reality games (hands-on demo)

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
January 8, 2016
3 min

Larry Yang, a former member of Microsoft’s Xbox 360 hardware team, gave me a demo recently over at his new job at Google. Yang...

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BB-8 and other Star Wars favorites bring Google’s Project Tango to life

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
December 23, 2015
2 min

We are on the cusp of some big breakthroughs for augmented reality, and a little soccer-ball-like droid wants to show you how it works....

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Glu CEO predicts the trends that will be hot next year in mobile games

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
December 22, 2015
9 min

Glu Mobile has seen some ups and downs in the past year in mobile games. The San Francisco game publisher’s fortunes will rise and...

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You can now play Angry Birds Friends, Monopoly, Risk, and more on your Chromecast

Posted byby GamesBeat
December 22, 2015
1 min

In case you didn’t know, Google’s Chromecast is capable of playing games. Oh, you knew that already? Well, did you know Angry Birds Friends...

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How Pokémon Go will benefit from Niantic’s lessons from Ingress on location-based game design

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
December 16, 2015
22 min

Niantic Labs was an oddball startup within Google. Conceived by John Hanke to promote exercise and an appreciation of public art, Niantic created a...

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22 min

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Google’s top tech searches in 2015: iPhone 6s, Samsung Galaxy S6, and Apple Watch

Posted byby GamesBeat
December 16, 2015
2 min

Just like every other company on the planet, Google puts together end-of-year lists for its various properties. But there’s one that matters more than all...

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New Chrome experiment turns your phone into a Star Wars lightsaber

Posted byby GamesBeat
December 15, 2015
2 min

Google today launched a new Chrome experiment called “Lightsaber Escape” in partnership with Disney, LucasFilm, and Industrial Light & Magic. The Star Wars “interactive...

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