Rocket League Grand Finals gives a peek at one of esports growing scenes
Rocket League was the setting for a civil war of sorts last weekend. Players from NRG met across the digital car-soccer field as DapG...
Why the Canadian government is OK with picking winners and losers among game startups
Canada has hit its stride in video games, with more than 20,400 direct and an additional 16,000 indirect jobs in the game industry. It...
The Good Life sees Deadly Premonition creator herding cats and raising bucks
Hidetaka Suehiro, aka the artist known as Swery, is back and ready to get weird. Today at PAX West, he let the cat out...
GamesBeat Boss interview: China’s Leyou moves from chicken meat to triple-A game publishing
A few years ago, gamers had a good laugh when they learned that a Chinese chicken meat company bought Digital Extremes, the maker of...
Game Boss interview: Why the Philadelphia 76ers dove into esports with Team Dignitas
The NBA gets it. Or at least the Philadelphia 76ers do. The traditional sports basketball team made history in 2016 when it acquired two...
How GameStop used FooVR’s tech to put animated characters in Destiny 2
Virtual reality has reached the “trough of despair,” according to FooVR founder Will Smith. The industry is struggling with disparity in the demand for...
Google’s first ARCore goal: 100 million AR-capable Android phones
Earlier this week, Google announced ARCore, a software-based solution for making more Android devices AR-capable without the need for depth sensors and extra cameras. It...
Where the Goats Are is about life on a farm as the world ends
From the very start, you can tell something is wrong in Where the Goats Are. A sense of impending doom hangs suspended in the...
GamesBeat 2017’s newest speakers: Minority Report adviser, Neverdie, and Accel
GamesBeat 2017 is at San Francisco’s beautiful Fort Mason on October 5 and October 6, and we’re delighted to announce our next three speakers: John...
Ark: Survival Evolved is getting another expansion now that it’s out of Early Access
Ark: Survival Evolved just left Early Access on Wednesday, and Studio Wildcard is wasting no time announcing new premium-priced content. The Aberration pack, as Wildcard...