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Contagion aims to save the zombie game genre from itself (hands-on preview)
Take a quick mental inventory: How many zombies have you killed in the past couple years? I lost count somewhere approaching “a crap load.” And yet developers continue to pump out games pitting...
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Guns of Icarus Online developers want to make ‘the most co-op game’...
Independent developer Muse Games, maker of the upcoming multiplayer airship combat game Guns of Icarus Online, has one simple goal. “We [want to] make the most co-op game that you could ever imagine,”...
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The Darksiders series’ Apocalypse doesn’t give two sh!ts about you
At the beginning of developer Vigil Games' first installment of its Darksiders series, War arrives on Earth to find it ending. He is one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, after all, so this...
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Extra Life 2012: Play games. Heal kids. Join Team GamesBeat
October is coming. No, that's not a line from my terrible A Song of Ice and Fire spin-off fan fiction, "A Shitload of Shields." It's basically just a fact. October will bring with it tiny candy bars,...
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BYOT Episode 4: Street Fighter’s 25th anniversary
Did you know that if developer Capcom’s Street Fighter series of fighting games were a person, it could legally rent a car now? That frightens us, actually — we’ve seen what they do to cars in those...
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What Superman did for video games
Bitmob community member Daniel Castro's article about developer Rocksteady's Batman titles (which is immediately below this one on our front page feed) provides valuable commentary on how "branded"...
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The top 10 games of ‘Pitch us in one Tweet’ (#8: TwinSpin)
GamesBeat editor-in-chief Dan “Shoe” Hsu is a popular guy. All he had to do was ask indie game developers to pitch him their games on Twitter for possible coverage on this site, and they flooded him...
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Darksiders II’s drastic change in scenery makes sense
Author's note: I have only played through the first part of Darksiders II so far, so my observations will be limited to the first area of the game. Last week, I wrote an article about the Darksiders...
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The top 10 games of ‘Pitch us in one Tweet’ (#4: Ring Run Circus)
GamesBeat editor-in-chief Dan “Shoe” Hsu is a popular guy. All he had to do was ask indie game developers to pitch him their games on Twitter for possible coverage on this site, and they flooded him...
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Rock Band Blitz turned me into what I most fear
Not too long ago, I wrote about what Rock Band Blitz means for those fake music groups you've been cultivating all these years. My conclusions were dire and troubling, but I've recently discovered an...
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The top 10 games of ‘Pitch us in one Tweet’ (#3: Hackycat)
GamesBeat editor-in-chief Dan “Shoe” Hsu asked indie game developers to pitch him their games on Twitter for possible coverage on this site, and they flooded him with entries. It’s taken a little...
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BYOT Episode 5: The business of mobile gaming
If we can tear you away from Angry Birds or whatever you’re doing With Friends right now, we have something that might interest you. It’s the latest episode of Bring Your Own Topic. This time, we’re...
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What do you do with Dishonored’s USB oil lamp?
A writer receives a free item as a preorder bonus, and it drives him immediately insane.
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Silent Hill: Book of Memories is a dungeon crawler, because why the hell not?
The latest installment in publisher Konami's Silent Hill series, Silent Hill: Book of Memories, comes out for Sony's PlayStation Vita portable console next week. Developer WayForward (maker of Contra...
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BYOT Episode 6: The world of Internet videos
Did you know that people use the Internet for more than just posting pictures of cute cats? It’s true! Some people even put up videos of cute cats. Like this one, which we’re pretty sure will be the...
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You don’t have to play horror games to pee your pants in fear
If you couldn’t tell from all of the horror movies playing on TV or the unobtrusive-but-still-confusingly-present Christmas candy displays at Walgreens (or you don’t have a, you know, calendar or...
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BYOT Episode 7: The retro-gaming election
If you’re like us, you’re currently recovering from Election Fever, the most civic-minded of all imaginary diseases. And if you’re not tired of weighing various options against one another, we have...
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7 Wii U games too insane to exist (we hope)
Click here for all of GamesBeat’s Wii U launch coverage. Nintendo’s Wii U console has been out for almost a week now, and gamers are finally seeing for themselves whether its “big screen plus smaller...
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Portal 2 In Motion adds three mechanics, subtracts one plot (review)
Valve Software’s brain-loosening puzzle-platformer Portal 2 came out aaaaaall the way back in April of 2011, but the developer has continued to support it through add-ons like free downloadable...
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Here are just the trailers from Spike’s Video Game Awards (you’re welcome)
Spike aired the 10th installment of its annual Video Game Awards last night, and if you’re like us, you were more interested in the world premiere trailers than you were in watching host Samuel L....
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