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Xbox display technology turns your room into a ‘holodeck’ of sorts (video)

Posted byby GamesBeat
January 10, 2013
2 min

With the high volume of new products and flashy prototypes vying for attention at the 2013 CES, very few have shown the kind of innovation needed to bring humanity one step closer to creating the ultimate consumer electronic device: a holodeck.

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Microsoft confirms purchase of R2 Studios to push Xbox beyond gaming

Posted byby GamesBeat
January 10, 2013
1 min

Microsoft today confirmed its acquisition of home-automation startup R2 Studios, the small company founded by Slingbox creator Blake Krikorian.

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Nvidia CEO’s 7-year journey to make the Project Shield portable gaming device (exclusive interview)

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
January 9, 2013
15 min

Jen-Hsun Huang explains the thinking by Nvidia's bold new bet on Android mobile gaming and cloud games.

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Big Fish’s casual cloud-gaming service headed to Windows 8, brings Xbox Live Achievements

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
January 8, 2013
1 min

Big Fish Unlimited expands to Windows 8 with a native app.

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Xbox Live cloud saves down (again)

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
January 4, 2013
1 min

For the second time in as many weeks, users are having difficulties accessing data stored in the cloud.

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Used Wii U consoles reportedly allow for downloads of previous owner’s games

Posted byby GamesBeat
January 4, 2013
1 min

Scoring a Wii U lower than retail price with a few extra games sounds like a Black Friday sale. That’s not the case if reports are true.

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GamesBeat weekly roundup: THQ is bankrupt, Zynga shuts down 11 games

Posted byby GamesBeat
January 4, 2013
2 min

If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best video game stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.