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Gaming PR chief Dean Bender retiring after 40 years

Connect with top gaming leaders in Los Angeles at GamesBeat Summit 2023 this May 22-23. Register here. Dean Bender is retiring from gaming public relations after more than 40 years. That’s quite an accomplishment, considering gaming is only about 50 years old. As BHI founder and co-president of 42West/BHI, Bender was responsible for directing public relations campaigns for a wide range of…
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Stop your public-cloud AI projects from dripping you dry

Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More Last year, Andreessen Horowitz published a provocative blog post entitled “The Cost of Cloud, a Trillion Dollar Paradox.” In it, the venture capital firm argued that out-of-control cloud spending is resulting in public companies leaving billions of…
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Zynga and CoolGames launch Farm Merge Valley on Facebook

Connect with top gaming leaders in Los Angeles at GamesBeat Summit 2023 this May 22-23. Register here. Zynga announced today it’s partnered with CoolGames on the launch of a new HTML5 game on Facebook Gaming. The new game is Farm Merge Valley, and the title tells you…
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It Takes Two: Porting 2021’s game of the year to Switch

It Takes Two was one of the most successful games of 2021, selling over 7 million copies and winning game of the year at The Game Awards. Now, Turn Me Up Games is getting ready to release its Switch port of Hazelight Studio’s big hit on November 4. That comes with some…
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EA unveils future The Sims game and user-generated content with Overwolf

Connect with top gaming leaders in Los Angeles at GamesBeat Summit 2023 this May 22-23. Register here. Electronic Arts unveiled a future version of The Sims, dubbed Project Rene, with advances in the life simulation franchise. It also unveiled a partnership with Overwolf to enable user-generated content in The Sims 4, which is going free to play today. In an online presentation dubbed Behind The…
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EA Motive confirms that it is working on an Iron Man Game

Connect with top gaming leaders in Los Angeles at GamesBeat Summit 2023 this May 22-23. Register here. Electronic Arts announced today that its EA Motive studio is working on a game based on the Marvel superhero Iron Man. This confirms recent rumors about EA’s…
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Is AI moving too fast for ethics? | The AI Beat

Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More Last weekend may have been a holiday in Silicon Valley, with AI researchers wolfing down turkey before preparing to fly to New…
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Fire Emblem: Engage is the franchise’s next Switch game

Connect with top gaming leaders in Los Angeles at GamesBeat Summit 2023 this May 22-23. Register here. Nintendo announced a new Fire Emblem during its Direct today. The trailer featured characters from the series’ past, like Marth. It also showed a new character with red and blue hair. It will release for Switch on January 20. Along with traditional grid-based battles, the trailer also…
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