Pokémon Go’s February 20 event will celebrate beloved Kanto region
Pokémon Go‘s next big online event will take place on February 20 as the company celebrates the game’s fifth anniversary with a return to...
NextNav unveils Unity plugin for fixing vertical positions in mobile location-based games
When you play location-based games like Pokémon Go, you can’t hunt for creatures on vertical levels in a skyscraper. You can only hunt for...
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II — The Sith Lords debuts on mobile on December 18
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II — The Sith Lords debuts on mobile on December 18, according to developer and publisher Aspyr....
Friends remember Microsoft renegade Eric Engstrom, who suggested a DirectX console
Eric Engstrom passed away this week, leaving friends in mourning for one of the renegades of the Microsoft empire and a brilliant tech innovator....
Bombay Play raises $1 million for social games as India’s game studios blossom
Bombay Play, a Bangalore, India-based game studio, has raised $1 million to make social games for global markets. India’s game studio opportunity has been...
Sony doubled TV ad spend for PlayStation 5 launch
Gaming brands have been revving up their TV ad spend just in time for the holidays: November saw a 76.65% increase in estimated outlay,...
What’s next for BioWare? | GamesBeat Decides 175
Some big names left BioWare this week. What does that mean for the studio, and where does that leave Mass Effect and Dragon Age...
The Last of Us creative director Neil Druckmann is now co-president of Naughty Dog
Neil Druckmann, an influential game developer behind titles such as The Last of Us, has been appointed a co-president of Naughty Dog alongside longtime...
The RetroBeat: Midway’s jammin’ rise and mortal fall
Arcades are a novelty these days, but they were a massive force in the industry in the 1990s. That was thanks in large part...
Call of Duty hits $3 billion in bookings in 2020, Warzone with Cold War moved to December 16
Call of Duty hit new records in the past year as net bookings crossed $3 billion, according to Activision Blizzard. Meanwhile, the new Call...