The reality of M&A for augmented and virtual reality
Despite Facebook’s blockbuster $3 billion Oculus acquisition in 2014, augmented and virtual reality has been too early stage for large scale mergers and acquisitions...
PC Gaming Weekly: China is Tencent’s turf, but Steam is quite safe in the West
When it comes to PC gaming, most of the world thinks of Steam first. It’s the biggest store and community for PC games, so...
DomiNations has bagged $100 million in revenue since its April 2015 mobile launch
That’ll do, Big Huge Games. That’ll do. Nexon announced today that the studio’s DomiNations, from Big Huge Games, has brought in $100 million in lifetime revenue and has more than 32 million players since the mobile strategy game’s launch in April 2015.
Code Vein is Bandai Namco’s bloodthirsty adventure that takes place in a ‘demented new reality’
In Code Vein’s shattered take on the future, street gang fights aren’t between the Sharks and the Jets — you rumble with the Lost...
AR/VR Weekly: Can licensed games build a VR empire on PSVR?
The biggest video game news out of the weekend’s Star Wars Celebration is the upcoming Battlefront II, which builds on the first by adding...
Beamdog ‘spells’ out its biggest hurdle to making Planescape: Torment — Enhanced Edition
Beamdog has been untangling old computer code for more than seven years now. It released three Enhanced Editions of classic role-playing games with Baldur’s...
Mindshow’s amazing and versatile VR animation tool will hit open beta in Q3
My ears pop in the elevator heading to the 43rd floor of a Los Angeles highrise. When I get out I find a little...
PC Gaming Weekly: Well met, folks!
Well met, and welcome to GamesBeat’s first PC Gaming Weekly newsletter. Thank you for joining us on our expanded dive into the industry’s’ first...
GamesBeat embraces our first love: PC gaming
PC gaming has never died. It will likely never die. It’s strong. It’s growing. And we at GamesBeat are going to focus more on...
Planescape: Torment gets an Enhanced Edition from the remaster masters at Beamdog
Beamdog has made a business out of taking beloved role-playing games from the 1990s and making “enhanced” versions — remasters, essentially — for modern PCs. We saw them do it with excellent versions of Baldur’s Gate, Baldur’s Gate II: Shadows of Amn, and Icewind Dale.