Nintendo wants to dazzle us with Japanese role-playing games in early 2016
When we think of most Japanese role-playing games that come out today, austere affairs with limited budgets generally come to mind. Nintendo apparently wants to...
Read+Watch+Listen: Bonus material for Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate fans
This article may contain spoilers for Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate. You spent years waiting for developers to hurry up and release a big game. You buy...
Why one PC maker decided not to ship a Steam Machine this year
The Steam Machines PC gaming computers were pitched as a mighty alternative to Microsoft’s Windows when Valve announced them in January 2014. But when the company’s hardware partners...
StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void sells 1M copies in 24 hours
Blizzard Entertainment said today that more than 1 million people have purchased StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void in its first 24 hours on sale....
GamesBeat weekly roundup: Machine Zone gets Arnie, and Activision is making movies
It’s Friday, so let’s take a look back at the week. We’ve taken a break from some of the year’s biggest releases to write about...
Fantasy sports sites sue to keep doors open in New York
Top daily fantasy sports companies DraftKings and FanDuel filed lawsuits on Friday to contest an order to shut down their online gaming operations in New York state, asking a state court to rule that the games are not illegal gambling.
StarCraft II: Blizzard explains why Legacy of the Void isn’t the end of the series
Many StarCraft II players are still busy getting through Legacy of the Void. But developer Blizzard Entertainment is already looking toward the future. StarCraft...
Today’s tiny World of Warcraft news: Gnome hunters
World of Warcraft creative director Alex Afrasiabi brought gnome lovers to their tiny little knees today with an announcement via Twitter: They could finally...
Unity has democratized game development, but CEO John Riccitiello worries about too much VR hype
Unity Technologies has armed more than 2 million developers with the tools to make video games. And those developers have shown a lot of...
Epic’s Tim Sweeney believes virtual reality will evolve more like console games than mobile
It seems like we just can’t get enough of Tim Sweeney, chief executive of Epic Games. Sweeney has been a video game graphics guru...