What Games Are: Xbox One Is Microsoft's Spruce Goose

What Games Are: Xbox One Is Microsoft’s Spruce GooseMicrosoft's Xbox One presents a big and complicated machine whose primary purpose is a menu layer for watching television. This in an age where living room television is irrelevant. Having bet the farm on this vision, the company looks so out of step as to almost be laughable and has built the digital equivalent of the Spruce Goose.articleSaturday, May 25th, 20131369484081 --

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Will The Xbox One Rule The Living Room? Price Will Determine The Size Of Its Kingdom

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Jawfish Games Launches Its Real-Time, Multiplayer Platform For iOS, Android

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Home Console Gaming May Suffer Death By A Thousand Cuts, Rather Than A Major Revolution

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Publisher iDreamSky Grosses $5-7M Per Month By Bringing Western Indie Mobile Games To China

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Kim-Mai Cutler is a technology journalist who has worked for Bloomberg, VentureBeat and The Wall Street Journal. Before she joined TechCrunch, she led mobile coverage at Inside Network, a six-person media startup that was acquired by WebMediaBrands in 2011 for $14 million in cash and stock. She specializes in covering gaming, distribution and monetization of mobile applications and venture...→ Learn More

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What Games Are: There Is No Iron Throne Of Games Anymore

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Tadhg is a senior video game designer, producer and creative director. Tadhg has held roles at various video game development, technology and publishing companies. Since the early 90s, Tadhg has worked on all sorts of game projects, from boardgames and live action roleplaying games through to multi-million dollar PC projects. He has served as lead designer, senior producer and...→ Learn More

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Ohio-Based Entrepreneur's SketchParty TV Shows AirPlay's Gaming Power, But The Tech Needs A Spotlight

Ohio-Based Entrepreneur’s SketchParty TV Shows AirPlay’s Gaming Power, But The Tech Needs A SpotlightApple's AirPlay streaming media technology has a neat trick up its sleeve for game developers, enabling them to create multi-screen experiences that allow a player to interact with an interface on a portable device like the iPad or iPhone, and see something different broadcast through their television attached to an Apple TV. One game that takes advantage of this is from Toledo, Ohio-based entrepreneur Matt Braun, who spoke to me about why the tech is so promising, and also about why we haven't seen wider adoption of it for gaming purposes as of yet.articleMonday, May 13th, 20131368439683 --

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