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Zynga misses Wall Street expectations, but it invests in NFL and Tiger Woods games for the ‘long term’

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
August 7, 2014
4 min

A year into his tenure, CEO Don Mattrick is having a hard time growing revenues, but he remains an optimist about investing in social mobile games.

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16 great educational apps to get kids ready to go back to school — handpicked by the experts

Posted byby GamesBeat
August 7, 2014
8 min

These educational apps, chosen by passionate educational technology experts, might help prevent summer learning loss in kids.

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Struggle Street: The day-to-day challenges of a game developer in the West Bank

Posted byby GamesBeat
August 6, 2014
6 min

Aside from the challenges all startups face, the Ramallah gaming studio PinchPoint is daily confronted with an assortment of political, social, and economic challenges, all stemming from its deeply troubled relationship with Israel.

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Everything you need to know about the Oculus Rift

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
August 6, 2014
5 min

A look at the the technology, games, and future of Facebook's virtual-reality company.

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Microsoft and Xbox One face steep obstacles to win the console war in China

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
August 5, 2014
6 min

Steep prices for the Xbox One and its games might hold Microsoft back in China, but the company has advantages going in, too.

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Israeli developer tries a game about love and peace during an armed conflict

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
August 4, 2014
2 min

Adventure Mob and developers team up to create Bolt Riley, a reggae music game.

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China's mobile game market to grow a scorching 93% to $2.9B in 2014 (exclusive)

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
August 4, 2014
4 min

That expansion should continue at a compound annual growth rate of 37.6 percent from 2013 to 2018.

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Nintendo's former indie champion reveals why he was forced off Twitter

Posted byby Mike Minotti
August 4, 2014
2 min

The former head of Nintendo's indie program, Dan Adelman, explained why the company wanted him off Twitter.

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Digital Futurism: prototypes, rhythm, and influences in trippy low-fi 3D games (part 2)

Posted byby GamesBeat
August 3, 2014
10 min

In part 1 of this 2 part series on Digital Futurism, we covered a small bit of history on this unique visual style including...

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How the Xbox One wants to be your destination for the NFL and fantasy football

Posted byby Jason Wilson
August 3, 2014
5 min

Microsoft wants you to ditch the second screen and settle in with fantasy football on your TV -- through its newest home video game console.

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