Newzoo: Nintendo could reap billions from subscriptions, digital sales, and mobile
Nintendo had spectacular growth in 2017, with revenues growing 172 percent to $9.2 billion from a year earlier. That’s good enough to push the...
Tangelo Games is targeting social casino games at Spanish-speaking players
We wrote about Vicenç Martí back in 2012 when he won the Who’s Got Game competition at our GamesBeat 2012 conference. He was running Akamon,...
Rainbow Six Siege Operation Chimera hands-on — 25 million players get new ways to die
Ubisoft is taking the wraps off of its Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege expansion, dubbed Operation Chimera. That could very well get the game’s...
How Machinima plotted its strategic rebranding across platforms
Warner Bros.’s digital video site Machinima rebranded this week as it makes a bigger push to expand beyond its YouTube roots to all the new platforms...
The DeanBeat: High Fidelity takes us dancing in a virtual reality club
I’m looking forward to Steven Spielberg’s upcoming film based on Ernest Cline’s virtual reality sci-fi novel Ready Player One. In one scene in that 2011...
GamesBeat Summit speakers — Second Life creator Philip Rosedale, video host Andrea Rene, and FoxNext’s game chief
We’re stocking up on star speakers for our GamesBeat Summit 2018, which will take place at the beautiful Claremont Resort in Berkeley, California, on April...
HTC raises Viveport subscription to $9 per month and adds more VR titles
HTC, maker of the Vive virtual reality headset for the PC, is raising the price for its subscriptions to the VR apps and games...
Blockchain startup Aura will offer gaming rewards for your idle computer time
These days, everybody wants to use your unused computer time. Aura is the latest blockchain company to make you an offer you can’t refuse...
Gree’s VR VC fund rebrands to add AR and mixed reality
Gree VR Capital, a venture investment division of Japan’s mobile game publisher Gree, has completed its first fund for virtual reality investments and is...
Machinima rebrands as it takes gamer culture videos to new video platforms
Warner Bros. bought digital video site Machinima in 2016, and today the division is announcing a rebranding with the goal of turning it into...