Abzû has beautiful underwater exploration, but it’s too much like Journey
Abzû generates a lot of the same sense of wonder as its predecessor Journey, but it trades the desert sands for underwater exploration. This...
Battery-drained Pokémon Go fans may need Mophie’s universal smartphone chargers
When Pokémon Go became a smash hit for mobile games in July, many people found that the augmented reality game ate up their smartphone batteries....
The NPD Group buys EEDAR to make an even bigger game-market research juggernaut
Two different kinds of game market researchers are getting married. The NPD Group, which releases data on sales in the game industry on a...
Google Play unveils indie festival featuring 30 new games
Winning over the hearts and minds of developers is a great way to make your platform succeed. That is part of why Google is announcing today...
Genvid Technologies raises $1.5 million to make esports broadcasts more interactive
Genvid Technologies has raised $1.5 million to enable a new kind of esports livestream broadcast. Investors in New York-based Genvid include Los Angeles-based March Capital Partners,...
Turkey’s puzzle game maker Gram Games shoots for another big hit with Six!
First came 1010! Then Merged! And now there’s Six! That’s a lot of exclamation points from Gram Games, the Turkish company that has specialized...
Up close with HP’s new Omen gamer PCs and crazy VR laptop backpack
Back in May, Hewlett-Packard announced it would bring its gaming computers under a single brand, HP Omen, in recognition of its heritage from the...
The DeanBeat: What Pokémon Go has done for augmented reality
For more than five years, Vuforia has been selling augmented reality. More than 30,000 apps have used the Vuforia platform for AR, which is...
8 GamesBeat University videos that teach you about the game business
We learned a lot about gaming at our GamesBeat 2016 event a few weeks ago. And we’re still gleaning some of the lessons from...
Wargaming shuts down its WG Cells mobile studio
Wargaming has shut its WG Cells mobile gaming studio in Bellevue, Washington, cutting about 64 jobs, according to a report in Geekwire. Cyprus-based Wargaming...