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Studio chief wants players to show their assassination creativity in Hitman
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Hitman reboot takes ‘assassination tourism’ to new heights (hands-on)
Shasta Ventures adds Doug Pepper as a managing partner to focus on application startups
YouTube Red’s first 4 original shows are available now as part of $10 monthly subscription
Opera accepts $1.2B offer from Chinese firms hungry for its booming mobile ad business
Hauck & Aufhäuser Acquires Share in the Naga Group AG
Sweden’s Stugan game accelerator gets its first mobile game launch
Facebook paid 210 security researchers $936,000 in 2015, high-impact bugs grew by 38%
WorldRemit raises $45M to grow its mobile-first money-transfer service globally
Google has quietly launched its answer to AWS Lambda
Google’s self-driving car AI can qualify as a driver, U.S. regulators say
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The esports industry has a lot to learn from the daily fantasy sports mess
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Early-stage companies, get ready to be punched in the face
Amazon adds zombie apocalypse reference to its AWS terms
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5 new unicorns emerge in January
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Becoming a better brand through data-driven discoveries (webinar)
Microsoft confirms it acquired iOS music app Groove
Nintendo makes big promises about profits for its mysterious NX and smartphone business
Following The Pirate Bay, Kickass Torrents now lets you stream all its movies and TV shows
Why Nintendo thinks electric toothbrushes are a key to its future
Rez and Lumines developer’s iOS puzzle-RPG is coming West
MapR Reports Over 100% Increase in Annual Billings
Club Prophet Systems Adds ACH Payments Option via linked2pay API
The best Final Fantasy hits mobile before Steam (hint: It’s IX)
Microsoft starts publicly sharing Windows 10 release notes
BioWare writer David Gaider joins Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition studio as creative director
Vine adds video sorting, caption editing, and 3D Touch support
The Division open beta gets official release date — comes early to Xbox One
Gmail now warns you when sending or receiving emails over non-encrypted connections
Google will stop running Flash display ads on January 2, 2017
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Star Wars: Commander is a big hit in China with 1M users in four days
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The Anonymous User: 5 Steps to engage them, convert them, and grow revenue
Square’s Caviar will cater your next corporate event
Security software giant Avast is crowdsourcing data to reveal the best Wi-Fi hotspots
Communications startup ThinkingPhones rebrands as Fuze, raises $112 million
360incentives Becomes 360insights and Launches Industry-First Channel Success Platform
Adblock Fast returns to Google Play a week after being pulled
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Starwood Hotels’ luxury at scale requires emotional analytics
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