Independent Games Festival announces finalists ahead of GDC 2018
The Independent Games Festival is kicking off 2018 by announcing the finalists for its annual award show. It runs alongside the Game Developers Conference...
Meta partners with Ultrahaptics and ZeroLight for touch in AR
Meta is adding another dimension to its augmented reality experiences by incorporating haptic feedback. To that end, it has partnered with Ultrahaptics and ZeroLight, and...
Apple’s $250 billion in repatriated cash: Netflix, Disney, Tesla, and other options
Apple has been actively preparing to repatriate over $200 billion in overseas cash since 2016. With the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 cutting the...
The best ways to demo your new VR headsets
If you’ve recently purchased or been gifted a VR headset, you’ll probably want to demo some experiences to your family and friends. However, from...
Drop is a VR productivity environment for HTC Vive
Drop Software Inc. wants to change the way people access information in virtual reality. Its flagship VR title, Drop, provides a 360-degree environment that...
ProBeat: Eve-Tech is the most interesting startup of 2017
Countless tech startups break out in a given year. The majority fail. Of the ones that don’t, some are boring, some are copycats, and...
GamesBeat Rewind 2017: the 10 best strategy games
2017 was a strange, though good, year for strategy games. After the sensational 2016, with five major releases and some fascinating indie games, this...
Drawfee releases 5 titles from its livestreamed game jam
Drawfee is normally a zany art channel on YouTube, but earlier this month, it hosted a two-day game jam sponsored by the anime hosting...
GamesBeat’s 10 biggest stories of 2017
Fun fact: Four of our 10 most popular stories this year are about Electronic Arts’s Star Wars: Battlefront II situation (aka “CrateGate”) even though...
GamesBeat reporter Stephanie Chan’s best indie games of 2017
It’s been painful for me to choose the “best” indie games I’ve played this year, mostly because calling something the “best” is a somewhat...