GamesBeat weekly roundup: Hearthstone’s big changes, and Pokémon Go gets more monsters
Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, we got to go inside Valve, PewDiePie causes controversy, and we went hands-on with Halo Wars 2....
Hearthstone’s big changes soothe players worries while padding Blizzard’s wallet
Hearthstone’s next Standard year is the Year of the Mammoth. It’s an appropriate name, because Blizzard is making some mammoth-size changes to its digital...
Hearthstone’s Year of the Mammoth: Classic cards going to Wild, and no more Adventures
Sylvanas has no time for Standard games. Blizzard detailed the next year in its Standard format, the Year of the Mammoth, in a blog post today. It will make cards from older expansions unplayable in the game’s Standard format.
49ers, NBA’s Jeremy Lin part of $15 million Series A for Plays.tv and its game-recording service
Forget about SportsCenter highlights — a company that can let you watch the best moments from games of Overwatch and League of Legends has...
Grand Theft Auto luminary Leslie ‘The Benz’ Benzies drives investment in Krotos audio tech
An audio company that specializes in making monster sounds is getting help from of gaming’s biggest names. Former Grand Theft Auto producer Leslie Benzies...
Let It Die slashes its way past 2 million downloads on PlayStation 4
A free-to-play game is finding success on PlayStation 4. Publisher GungHo Online Entertainment America and developer Grasshopper Manufacture announced today that the free-to-play hack-and-slash...
Hearthstone targets fast metagame by weakening Shaman and pirate decks
Shaman’s reign of terror on Hearthstone may end even before the beginning of the next year of Standard. Blizzard announced today that it is changing...
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive league Esports Championship Series announces third season
One of the most popular competitive shooters in the world is getting another big tournament. The Esports Championship Series (ECS) announced today that its third...
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild gets its own Game Developers Conference panel
Nintendo wants to talk some Zelda. The Japanese game company announced today that it will hold a panel about The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, which goes on from February 27 to March 3.
GamesBeat weekly roundup: Activision Blizzard’s record quarter, and mobile ads dominate the Super Bowl
Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, Steam Greenlight meets its end, Call of Duty is returning to its roots, and Grand Theft...