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From Kinect to Angry Birds — the biggest video game stories of 2010
During 2010, we wrote about 1,100 stories on the video game industry — and the year isn’t over yet. But here’s a look back at what we thought were the biggest stories of the year. For fun, here’s a...
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Rivet Games raises second round for web, social and mobile games (exclusive)
Rivet Games said today it has raised a second round of funding for its as yet-undisclosed web, social and mobile games. The San Francisco company didn’t disclose the size of the round, but it said that...
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Jason Citron’s Phoenix Guild prepares for the post-PC world of gaming
Consoles from Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony may still rule the living room, but Aurora Feint (and OpenFeint) founder Jason Citron has his eye a time on when tablets will take over. Hardcore tablet...
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Is the candy crushed? Titanfall, Hearthstone, and other hardcore fare drove...
Hardcore games like the downloadable first-person shooter sci-fi game Titanfall helped drive U.S. digital game sales in March up 9 percent to $936 million compared to a year ago. Market researcher...
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The DeanBeat: Fallout Shelter is a rare free-to-play hardcore mobile gaming hit
Bethesda Softworks’ Fallout Shelter is one of the rare hardcore gaming hits on mobile devices. The post-apocalyptic game scored huge publicity when Bethesda announced its availability during its...
View ArticleHardcore iPhone game Infinity Blade lands on DeNA’s social gaming network
Japanese mobile games portal DeNA announced today it’s bringing the popular iPhone game Infinity Blade, one of the first mobile games geared toward hardcore gamers, to its mobile social network. The...
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‘Hypercasual’ is mobile gaming’s new dominant force
GUEST: In previous articles, we’ve defined the rise of the hyper-casual gaming genre and discussed its massive growth, and we’ve recently seen the resurgence of the hardcore genre as well. As a result,...
View ArticleKabam raises $85M for hardcore social gaming business
Here’s a “kaboom” for all those social game skeptics out there. Kabam has raised $85 million in a fourth round of funding to fuel its business making hardcore games for social networks such as...
View ArticleRaptr’s gamer social network surpasses a million daily active users
Raptr, the social network for gamers, has reached more than a million daily active users and more than 10 million registered users to date, the company said. That shows the site is seeing continous...
View ArticleCrowdStar finally makes a game for hardcore strategy fans (er, dudes)
CrowdStar has built its reputation on Facebook by making casual games that appeal to females, from Happy Aquarium to It Girl. But the company is trying a tack today with the launch of its first...
View ArticleThe DeanBeat: Can Microsoft’s Kinect gain cred from hardcore gamers?
Microsoft’s Kinect has always held out tantalizing promises. As a user interface, it brings computing devices to the edge of greatness but falls just a little short of our dreams of the Star Trek...
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