GamesBeat weekly roundup: Activision-Blizzard buys King, and Halo 5 sells big
Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! Activision-Blizzard sent shockwaves through the gaming industry this week when it bought King for $5.9 billion. We also...
Take-Two cans Borderlands Online — 150 people lose jobs as 2K China studio closes
Take-Two Interactive has shut down a 150-person game studio in China and stopped development on Borderlands Online, which would have been a free-to-play online...
For Shop Heroes, Apple featuring it on the App Store was a double-edged sword
When you want to make a mobile hit, you’ll need some heroics of your own. At our GamesBeat conference in San Francisco last month,...
World of Warcraft’s Legion expansion coming September 21
A leak has given us some new details on World of Warcraft’s next expansion. A splash page image (above) showed up on Battle.net revealing...
The DeanBeat: The top 25 public game companies have changed drastically in five years
Five years ago, not many people outside of China had heard of Tencent. But today, the company heads the list of the top 25 public companies...
Blizzard’s Overwatch is coming to consoles and PC spring 2016
While a full announcement will likely come today during BlizzCon, a splash page (that’s now gone) featuring the image above on Battle.net revealed that Blizzard’s team-based shooter is coming to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC next spring. This also confirms that Overwatch is coming to consoles.
Deadly Premonition creator Swery is taking a health-related break from game development
Hidetaka Suehiro, the writer and director of cult hit Deadly Premonition, today announced that he’s stepping aside from game development, at least for a...
5 awesome things about the Call of Duty: Black Ops III single-player campaign
I’ve played through the entire single-player campaign for Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops III, the latest installment a series that generates a billion...
The big zombie Easter egg in Call of Duty: Black Ops III is a nightmare
Treyarch, the developer of Call of Duty: Black Ops III, has put a secret mode in the latest first-person shooter game. Treyarch has been putting a zombie co-op play mode in its Call of Duty games for a while.
Call of Duty: Black Ops III has a funny minigame Easter egg
Treyarch, the developer of Call of Duty: Black Ops III, likes to put gags in its games. There’s a hub level in-between missions in...