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Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, we got to dive in deep with the HTC Vive virtual reality headset, we looked at an NES that was made of 24kt gold, and we reviewed Quantum Break.
Happy reading, and have a great weekend!
Pieces of flair and opinion
- The DeanBeat: What’s game journalism’s next move?
- Here’s how PlayStation’s gaming boss deals with light leaking into his Oculus Rift headset
- Here’s how hard it is to make a mixed-reality trailer for HTC Vive VR games
- My first VR injury was painful and all my fault
- A step-by-step guide to building an all-star player in MLB 16: The Show
- Why HTC Vive’s camera gives you ‘Terminator’ vision
- 5 HTC Vive virtual reality games you should buy first
- Quantum Break tips and tricks that keep you from getting stuck in time
- The best HTC Vive virtual reality games make you hot and sweaty
- You can get this 24kt gold NES system for $5K
- The Legend of Zelda becomes 3D in your browser
News
- Oculus VR donates virtual reality headsets to Major League Hacking group
- VR headsets to generate $895M in revenue in 2016
- HTC details plans to roll out Vive virtual reality headset to retailers in June
- Oculus is OK with free-to-play on Rift, but even a VR ad startup doesn’t like that idea
- HTC Vive is experiencing shipping problems, and the company is finally talking about it
- How educators are using Rocket League to help kids learn engineering
- Tom Clancy’s The Division was the top trending game on YouTube in March
- Telltale to publish zombie survival game 7 Days to Die on consoles
- BlueStacks makes it easy to stream mobile games to Twitch
- Steam is censoring some torrent sites in chat
- Microsoft: ‘VR is beautiful for gaming’ but HoloLens is a ‘new paradigm’ for information
- Microsoft releases new Windows 10 preview for PCs with Bash, Cortana cross-device features, universal Skype app
- VideoStitch launches 360-degree Orah camera to make VR video simpler to produce
- Plays tv touts growth that’s better than Instagram and Snapchat after its first year of PC gaming recording
- Consortium’s sequel seeks funding on Fig
- Esports makes up 21.3% of Twitch’s viewers
- Faceit and Twitch launch esports league where teams are owners
- This online game show blends The Price is Right with The Hunger Games
- Forge expands its video-capturing tech to include Twitch and YouTube broadcasting
- Angry Birds maker Rovio posts 2015 operating loss
- Baldur’s Gate’s expansion adds diversity, and of course some people hate it (update)
- Tencent is bringing Path of Exile to China
- Black Desert Online’s big sales show premium-priced MMOs aren’t dead yet
- Game developer group doesn’t let Nintendo off the hook for firing Alison Rapp
- MechWarrior Online announces $100,000 esports world championship
- Fallout, Skyrim publisher will kick off Electronic Entertainment Expo again with Sunday night showcase
- Nvidia is interacting with hundreds of deep-learning startups
- Nvidia CEO bets big on deep learning and VR
- PlayStation 4 update gives players more privacy
- Minecraft community’s latest tool randomly connects players to one of over 3,000 servers
- How YouTube Gaming wants to drive 360-degree VR game videos
- Optic Gaming takes North American finals for Call of Duty World League
Mobile and social
- Her Interactive courts young fans with coding concepts in Nancy Drew: Codes & Clues
- Talking Tom Cat is back with a modern look and more silliness
- Japan’s GungHo to release Turbo’s Super Senso mobile strategy game
- Maybe you won’t hate in-app ads so much if you could play them
- Unity: The majority of mobile gamers are open to engaging with incentivized video ads
- Machine Zone CEO was on employment benefits before founding the company behind Game of War
- Lumosity debuts word games that will help you learn vocabulary
- Machine Zone launches cloud platform to process millions of real-time interactions
- Mobile game Kingdom Hearts Unchained χ gets a U.S. release date
Previews, reviews, and interviews
- Quantum Break takes interactivity, video, and time travel in a riveting direction
- The HTC Vive offers the best consumer VR experience for now — but it needs better games
- MLB: The Show 16 reinvigorates a series that is well past its pitch count
- The Division impressions: a riveting fight for the future of New York City
- An interview with a Microsoft HoloLens true believer
- Uncharted 4’s Madagascar shows the heavy influence of The Last of Us
- The boomerang kid: Rob Glaser on his return to RealNetworks and what’s next
- Watch us play Lucky’s Tale in virtual reality with the Oculus Rift