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Ouya’s video game console Kickstarter tops $5M raised so far (exclusive interview)

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 17, 2012
3 min

The people have spoken. And they want their Ouya. The new video game console company has raised more than $5 million in a crowd-funded Kickstarter project in just seven days.

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Pachter on the case for Call of Duty: Black Ops II on the Wii U

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 17, 2012
2 min

Nintendo wasn’t planning for a standard gaming controller for the Wii U. But it announced one this year for “multiplatform gaming.” Wedbush Securities analyst...

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Kinect-based medical startup Jintronix wins International Startup Festival’s top prize

Posted byby GamesBeat
July 13, 2012
2 min

Founder of new startup gives physical therapy a technological boost after watching his father struggle with recovering from a stroke.

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GamesBeat weekly roundup: Angry Birds, the Ouya console, and Penny Arcade’s ad-free gambit

Posted byby GamesBeat
July 13, 2012
3 min

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

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Nintendo sells more than 5 million 3DS consoles in the U.S.

Posted byby GamesBeat
July 12, 2012
1 min

Despite the announcement of the bigger Nintendo 3DS XL, the original handheld just crossed over the 5 million units sold mark in the U.S.

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Indie devs: Quality content trumps following trends, free-to-play ‘is kind of a slum’

Posted byby GamesBeat
July 11, 2012
3 min

Indie devs trumpet the importance of quality content, ridicule free-to-play gaming.

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June retail video game sales expected to be a dud

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 9, 2012
2 min

U.S. video game sales for the month of June are expected to be down 34 percent compared to a year ago, according to a...

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GamesBeat weekly roundup: Spelunky, Sony buys Gaikai, and the Walking Dead

Posted byby GamesBeat
July 6, 2012
2 min

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