Leap Motion’s hyper-accurate hand-tracking VR tech shines in new Orion demo
One of the first things people do when they put on a virtual reality headset is try to look down at their hands. One...
Metal Gear Solid fan remake shuts down
Game over. Shadow Moses, a project that aimed to remake the 1998 PlayStation classic Metal Gear Solid with the Unreal 4 engine, announced today...
Firewatch beat Far Cry: Primal and Street Fighter V as PS4’s most downloaded game in February
Sony today revealed a list of the PlayStation 4’s most downloaded games in February, and Firewatch — a first-person, story-driven experience that costs $20 — topped the list, beating mass-market blockbusters like Far Cry: Primal and Street Fighter V.
E3 loses two more as Disney, Wargaming decide the show floor doesn’t make sense
Electronic Arts said in January that it would drop its booth on the show floor of the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), the game industry’s biggest trade show in the U.S. Then Activision Blizzard, the biggest U.S. game company, dropped out of the show floor earlier this week.
Epic’s Tim Sweeney questions Microsoft’s commitment to an open Windows platform
Tim Sweeney is of the best-known technical experts in the game industry and the CEO of Gears of War creator Epic Games, and he stirred...
CastAR founder Jeri Ellsworth will augment our speakers at GamesBeat Summit 2016
We’re happy to announce that Jeri Ellsworth, cofounder of augmented reality glasses maker CastAR, will be one of our speakers for the second annual GamesBeat...
Zelda’s Link is Google Maps’ latest Easter egg
It’s dangerous to go to that new antique store in that part of town you never go to alone! Take this. Link, the hero...
Sega confirms layoffs in Western mobile division to focus on its famous characters
Sega confirmed to GamesBeat that it has handed out layoffs at Sega Networks, its mobile division in the West. The company attributes the changes...
The DeanBeat: I’m surrendering to the aliens in XCOM 2. It’s too hard
I have put dozens of hours into playing a single game of XCOM 2, the turn-based tactical strategy game from Take-Two Interactive’s 2K Games...
N3twork brings aboard a CRO to figure out user acquisition for mobile games
If you were going into the mobile game business today, how would you attack the challenge of getting users for a mobile game in...