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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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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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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To Test The Bitcoin Waters, Adam Draper's Boost.vc Accelerator Adds Backing From Lightspeed, Beluga Founder & More

To Test The Bitcoin Waters, Adam Draper’s Boost.vc Accelerator Adds Backing From Lightspeed, Beluga Founder & MoreAs a fourth generation venture investor, Adam Draper was pretty much predestined to work with startups. The son of Tim Draper, the founder of global VC firm Draper Fisher Jurveston, Adam has made it his mission to do everything in his power to help entrepreneurs bring their ideas to life -- without relying on his family name to do so. After taking the plunge as an entrepreneur himself, co-founding a capital raising and trading platform and an equity crowdfunding portal, the 26-year-old again finds himself back in the Draper wheelhouse: Early-stage finance. articleTuesday, May 14th, 20131368507442 --

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NVIDIA's $349 Handheld Shield Gaming System Will Ship In June, Pre-Orders Start Today

NVIDIA’s $349 Handheld Shield Gaming System Will Ship In June, Pre-Orders Start TodayRemember NVIDIA's kooky Project SHIELD tablet? The one it unveiled to an unsuspecting public at back CES? Well, it's officially not just a "project" anymore -- it's a full-fledged product, and NVIDIA is aiming to get the SHIELD out the door this June complete with a $349 price tag. To help manage demand for the curious gaming portable, NVIDIA is also preparing to take pre-orders. If you've been eagerly devouring what Shield details you could and have subscribed to the Shield newsletter, you'll be able to lock down your unit starting today -- the rest will have to wait until next Monday to get their pre-orders in. articleTuesday, May 14th, 20131368511286 --

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Angry Birds Maker Rovio Will Now Publish And Market Select Third-Party Games

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NVIDIA's Shield Mobile Gaming System Feels Like The Way Android Games Should Be Played

NVIDIA’s Shield Mobile Gaming System Feels Like The Way Android Games Should Be PlayedNVIDIA brought its new Shield handheld gaming system to Google I/O this year and showed off a near-production device. The Shield made its debut at CES this year, surprising most since it's a consumer handheld device from a company that generally makes internal components. But it has some neat tricks up its sleeve, including a Tegra 4 chipset, 2GB of RAM, a 5-inch 720p display and 16GB of internal storage.articleThursday, May 16th, 20131368725228 --

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NVIDIA's Shield May Be A Tough Sell, But Now You Can Pre-Order It From GameStop And Newegg Anyway

NVIDIA’s Shield May Be A Tough Sell, But Now You Can Pre-Order It From GameStop And Newegg AnywayIf you were among the select few that signed up for NVIDIA's Shield newsletter then you've been able to pre-order the company's curious handset for a few days now. The remainder of the gaming masses originally had to wait until Monday for their own turn, but that's no longer the case -- NVIDIA's retail partners have jumped on the pre-order bandwagon too so you can now stake your claim on a Shield from Newegg, Gamestop, and Canada Computer starting today.articleFriday, May 17th, 20131368770417 --

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What Games Are: Cometh The Hour, Cometh The Xbox?

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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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Unity Game Engine Goes Free For iOS, Android And BlackBerry 10 Developers

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Xbox One Instant Switching Turns The Console Into A Voice-Powered Set Top Box With Live TV Integration

Xbox One Instant Switching Turns The Console Into A Voice-Powered Set Top Box With Live TV IntegrationNow leading the pack in gaming consoles, Microsoft's future growth lies outside the gaming sphere. We'll surely see tons of games at E3 in a few weeks, but at the big reveal of the Xbox One, the company chose to focus on non-gaming features, such as media streaming and Skype conversations. But what makes streaming and entertainment a true upgrade on the Xbox One, which already has access to almost all streaming platforms? Instant Switching. It allows you to switch between inputs, games, menus, internet explorer, and almost anything else almost instantly. And what's more, it lets you layer the the power of Microsoft partnerships and information across live TV. articleTuesday, May 21st, 20131369132773 --

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Microsoft Confirms That The Xbox One Will Come With An Incredibly Sensitive New Kinect

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Chris Velazco is a mobile enthusiast and writer who studied English and Marketing at Rutgers University. Once upon a time, he was the news intern for MobileCrunch, and in between posts, he worked in wireless sales at Best Buy. After graduating, he returned to the new TechCrunch to as a full-time mobile writer. He counts advertising, running, musical theater,...→ Learn More

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Xbox One Makes The Console Gaming Experience Less Lonely

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Josh Constine is a technology journalist who specializes in deep analysis of social products. He is currently a writer for TechCrunch. Previously, Constine was the Lead Writer of Inside Facebook, where he covered Facebook product changes, privacy, the Ads API, Page management, ecommerce, virtual currency, and music technology.Prior to writing for Inside Facebook, Constine graduated from Stanford University...→ Learn More

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New Xbox Fails To Excite Investors As Microsoft, AMD Stocks Stays Flat While Sony Shoots Up 9%

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Josh Constine is a technology journalist who specializes in deep analysis of social products. He is currently a writer for TechCrunch. Previously, Constine was the Lead Writer of Inside Facebook, where he covered Facebook product changes, privacy, the Ads API, Page management, ecommerce, virtual currency, and music technology.Prior to writing for Inside Facebook, Constine graduated from Stanford University...→ Learn More

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OK Go's Damian Kulash Explains Why His Band Built Its Own Mobile Game

OK Go’s Damian Kulash Explains Why His Band Built Its Own Mobile GameOK Go (the band behind hit music videos like "This Too Shall Pass" and "Here It Goes Again") launched its very own game for iOS and Android earlier this month.Titled Say The Same Thing, you play the game with one of your friends or with a randomly chosen player. (If you sign up now, you can also participate in a temporary promotion where people are randomly selected to play with a band member) Each player types in a word, then you see what the other player said, and you use that as prompt for another word. As the game's title implies, you win when each of you enters the same word.articleTuesday, May 21st, 20131369154543 --

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Amazon Takes Kindle Fire HD Tablets To 170 Countries As It Ramps Up Its Appstore To Nearly 200 Markets

Amazon Takes Kindle Fire HD Tablets To 170 Countries As It Ramps Up Its Appstore To Nearly 200 MarketsNo, we still don't have any word from Amazon on where it stands with a smartphone, but it's definitely making its mobile ambitions clear anyway. Today, the e-commerce giant took two more steps in its strategy to scale up its Kindle Fire tablet business. It announced that it will now sell the two higher-end versions of the device, the Kindle Fire HD and Kindle Fire HD 8.9", in 170 countries. And it also said that its Amazon Appstore will now be available in 200 countries. articleThursday, May 23rd, 20131369269438 --

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

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Blip Blup Is A Minimalist Mobile Puzzle Game That Lets You Play With Pulses Of Light

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Natasha is a reporter for TechCrunch, joining September 2012, based out of London. She arrives after a stint reviewing smartphones for CNET UK and, prior to that, more than five years covering business technology for silicon.com (now folded into TechRepublic.com). At silicon she focused on mobile and wireless, telecoms and networking, and IT skills issues, and has also freelanced...→ Learn More

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