2015’s best video game stories: Life is Strange, Until Dawn, and more
2015 isn’t short of great and memorable video game stories, whether it’s playing the role of a detective and solving a murder, escaping the...
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is the best-reviewed new game of 2015
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, the last collaboration between series creator Hideo Kojima and publisher Konami, has topped Metacritic’s game-of-the-year chart. The popular review aggregator site reports that The Phantom Pain scored an average of 95 out of 100 for its Xbox One version.
Nvidia’s Shield gaming tablet is one of the first to get Android Marshmallow
Following last month’s rerelease of Nvidia’s Android gaming tablet, the company has begun upgrading the 8-inch Shield K1 slate from Lollipop to Marshmallow. The device is for...
GamesBeat Rewind 2015: The best video game trailers
If you want to sell games in the $91 billion-and-growing global market, you really need a great trailer. This year was full of awesome examples of...
Crossing the streams: Competition in the streaming space is good for gamers…and business
An increasing number of smaller companies are offering streaming content (for viewers worldwide or regionally) and software/tools for those who want to stream to the masses, with seemingly new ones starting up every month.
Fallout 4 ‘addict’ loses wife and job, sues Bethesda
A Siberian gamer is suing Fallout 4 creator Bethesda after he claims an addiction to the role-playing game messed with his real life. The 28-year-old says he lost his wife and his job after spending three weeks playing Fallout 4 while skipping work, not sleeping or eating, and ignoring his friends, reports RT.
In-app purchases done right: Why you must entertain your users — not exploit them
Far too often, in-app purchases become a game of “pay to win” which hurts the business model in the eyes of consumers.
Whomor, Japan’s crowdsourced comic studio, raises $1.6M from Digital Garage
(The Bridge) – Tokyo-based Whomor, the Japanese company offering a crowdsourcing platform focused on illustrations and 3D computer graphics, unveiled today that it has...
2015’s biggest news stories: breakups, court rulings, and a somber goodbye
Here are some of the biggest news stories to come out of the video game industry in 2015.
VR startup bets on bite-sized breaks from reality
When I think about the excitement around virtual reality, I sometimes imagine a large group of investors and designers leaping on a careening bandwagon...