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Google’s Niantic Labs to launch massive augmented reality game on Dec. 14

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
November 4, 2013
5 min

The augmented-reality, mobile-only Ingress will formally launch on Dec. 14. People are already playing it in more than 200 countries.

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Google Play now drives 25% more downloads than iOS app store, has 50% the revenue

Posted byby GamesBeat
October 31, 2013
2 min

Google Play is continuing its inexorable overtaking of the app store, with downloads now 25 percent higher, and app revenue that is slowly overtaking Apple's app sales. The reason is exactly the same one that impacts iOS market share: international markets.

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2 min

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The president’s ‘gaming guy’ tells us that educational games fascinate Obama

Posted byby GamesBeat
October 30, 2013
3 min

You may find it hard to believe that the leader of the free world has much time for video games. But the President's senior advisor, Mark DeLoura, says Barack Obama has taken a personal interest.

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3 min

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Jens Begemann on Wooga’s plan to create million-dollar mobile blockbusters (interview)

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 28, 2013
9 min

Social-game developer Wooga found success on mobile with Jelly Splash, a color-tile matching game with more than 10 million downloads in eight weeks on iOS.

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9 min

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How Japan’s Line became an unintentional gaming-platform giant (interview)

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 27, 2013
10 min

Line's Akira Morikawa isn't targeting his messaging service at gamers, but they're playing a ton of titles on his network. Will that make it bigger than Facebook?