Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, Halo composer Marty O’Donnell won a court case against Bungie, Apple TV showed off gaming support, and PlayStation 4 beat its competition again in sales.
Have a great weekend, everyone!
Pieces of flair and opinion
- The DeanBeat: Apple TV fails to kill off the video game consoles
- 5 must-see events from TwitchCon
- The original PlayStation’s 5 most important games
- How to make a killer daily fantasy sports football roster on DraftKings and FanDuel
- Metal Gear Solid V’s DD is history’s greatest dog for history’s greatest soldier
- Epic Games graphics guru Tim Sweeney headlines GamesBeat 2015
- Remembering the PlayStation’s mediocre launch lineup 20 years later
- YouPorn data reveals which gaming consoles get the most love on its site
- Apple TV must undo the company’s history of contempt and apathy for gaming
- 10 games we’re dying to play on the new Apple TV
News
- New Microsoft patent lets Kinect make a physical 3D model of your face
- PlayStation 4 outsold Xbox One and Wii U once again in August
- August 2015 NPD: PlayStation 4 and Madden are the kings of summer
- Nintendo has sold 7 million Amiibos in the U.S. since November
- Super Mario Maker patch removes item-unlock delay — now 15 minutes, not 1 day, per batch
- GameStop announces support for Android Pay
- Microsoft details November’s redesigned, backward compatibility-adding Xbox One update
- Iron Man’s Stark Tower is coming to life in virtual reality
- PC gamers carry digital games through slow summer
- Super Mario Bros. 3 was all just a play — Shiggy confirms and busts the series’ myths
- Scientific Revenue figures out optimal prices for virtual goods in games
- The ludicrously popular Garry’s Mod is getting a sequel, and it’ll support virtual reality
- Ex-Wizards of the Coast VP is now advising on an online trading card game
- Nvidia says Shield owners don’t need no stinkin’ Apple TV
- Apple TV gets another exclusive: GT Spirit racing sim from Eden Games
- 10 action games we’re dying to play on the new Apple TV
- Harmonix announces Beat Sports for Apple TV
- Apple confirms you’ll be able to play games and other apps on new Apple TV
- Apple positions its new Siri TV remote as a gaming breakthrough
- Apple unveils completely redesigned Apple TV, launching in October for $149
- AMD to set up Radeon graphics chips as a separate business
- O’Donnell attorney blasts Bungie for betraying its founding composer
- Rockband developer Harmonix raises $15M in equity funding
- Sony adds the classic PlayStation boot screen to PlayStation 4’s Sharefactory
- People who spend money on digital collectible-card games spend a lot on them
- Destiny’s massive, game-changing 2.0 patch comes out today
- Konami confirms Quiet bug in Metal Gear Solid V: Phantom Pain
- Former Disney games chief unveils Day of Discord to tap into the $1.2 billion card game market
- Dragon’s Dogma is barking up the PC tree without official mod support (update)
- The Witcher 3’s first expansion, Hearts of Stone, comes out on October 13
- Xbox One dominated game industry TV ads with NFL integration
- Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is No. 1 in the U.K. — with 72 percent of retail sales on PlayStation 4
- Watch out Amazon, China is launching a Twitch rival called Panda TV
- O’Donnell case is a window into Activision-Bungie creative-freedom dispute
- Forza Motorsport 6’s TV ad overflows with references to classic racing games
- Arbitrator’s ruling in case of music composer Marty O’Donnell v. Destiny developer Bungie
- Ex-Bungie composer Marty O’Donnell wins epic legal fight with former bosses
Mobile and social
- Machine Zone and Kabam politely resolve their trade secret lawsuit
- Heroic Labs’s quest makes building mobile, HTML5, and Unity games easier and more social
- GameVice has a gamepad solution for newly announced mobile Apple products
- Hammer & Chisel pivots to voice comm app for multiplayer mobile games
- IronSource confirms merger with mobile monetization firm Supersonic
- Here’s what Pokémon Go will look like as a location-based mobile game
- Nintendo takes Pokémon into mobile gaming in partnership with Google Niantic
- Google updates its Play Games analytics tools for developers
- Watch developer Pixeltoys demo Warhammer 40K: Freeblade on iPhone 6S
- King’s new monetization trend revealed: How some games are giving old selling tricks a new twist
- Clash of Clans vs. Game of Thrones: Ascent — Two ways app publishers use celebrity brands to drive user acquisition
- If you sell mobile tech, Datanyze will tell you who to target — and how
- Everything mobile game developers need to know about app store optimization
- Star Wars has a new ‘Old Man of the Empire’ in Kabam’s Uprising
- Star Wars’ next Grand Admiral Thrawn comes from Kabam: Deathstick
- Star Wars: Uprising’s new canon is a sign of Lucasfilm’s trust in Kabam
- Star Wars: Uprising launches September 10 on iOS and Android
Previews and interviews
- Baldur’s Gate’s future goes back into Dungeons & Dragons’ past
- Indie dev Rami Ismail on doing good, the Indiepocalypse, and Nuclear Throne
Reviews and impressions