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Metal Gear mastermind Hideo Kojima joins VR studio Prologue Immersive’s advisory board
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PayPal cofounder Max Levchin praises White House proposal to attract immigrant entrepreneurs
Cyberattack causes ‘LaunchPad could not establish connection’ error in H1Z1
GameStop and RetailMeNot show why mobile retailers must embrace marketing automation (VB Live)
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Uber wins temporary delay on New York price-fixing lawsuit
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3 stats that show chatbots are here to stay
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Facebook stops employing humans to write trending topic descriptions
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Apple releases iOS 10 public beta 7
Nintendo acquires Jesnet to control how its products reach Japanese consumers
Blizzard makes it easy to stream games to Facebook
GamesBeat weekly roundup: The PlayStation 4 Slim, and Blizzard talks Hearthstone’s future
Yahoo Esports partners with organizer ESL to broadcast events and create new tournaments
GameFly is bringing game-streaming to Mexico’s booming market
PlayStation Network is down for many
Cloud giant Rackspace goes private in $4.3 billion acquisition
The DeanBeat: What Pokémon Go has done for augmented reality
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How Reverb’s social strategy grew it to 7 million users and $100 million in revenue in just 3 years (VB Live)
8 GamesBeat University videos that teach you about the game business
Open Benchmarks gives a live view into the revenues of 600+ startups
Reddit hosts Crackle’s first episode of ‘StartUp’, a dark drama about entrepreneurship
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How Facebook’s pushing the boundaries of computer vision technology
Inspired by Pokémon Go, school teacher’s book hunting game is a hit in Belgium
Fresh from its IPO, mobile messaging giant Line finally lets users sign up from a PC or tablet
Uber reportedly lost at least $1.27 billion in first half of 2016
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Niki.ai’s new Messenger bot lets you hail cabs and order snacks in India
BotBeat: This week’s top bot stories
Google removes its Device Assist app from the Play Store
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Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 review: insane gaming and VR power in one graphics card
Endless Legend’s Tempest expansion adds layers of strategy with naval combat
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How to build and launch your own Slack bot
LinkedIn for Android and iOS now lets you search by topic, article, or hashtag
