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Respawn chief Vince Zampella has to feed hungry gamers with Titanfall Expedition downloadable content (exclusive interview)
Amazon Web Services is doing so well, it has nowhere else to grow
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Minecraft gets a complete re-creation of Denmark — yes, the entire country
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Dark Souls II launches today on PC but preorder deal still available
Surface sales up 50% from last year — down nearly 50% from holiday quarter
Security concerns aside, the public cloud market will hit $191B by 2020
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In first quarter, Microsoft ships 2M consoles — including 1.2M Xbox Ones
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