GamesBeat weekly roundup: Pokémon Go gets buddies, and Warcraft’s loremaster retires
Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, we look at an action role-playing game about burning books, Star Trek Online lets players 3D-print...
Opt-in advertisements are proving to be popular in virtual reality
In virtual reality apps, opt-in video ads work much better than pre-roll ads, according to a report by VR ad network Immersv. Emeryville-based Immersv...
Hearthstone’s Summer Championships: How journalism and ultimate Frisbee drove two players
Blizzard’s third and final season of competitive Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft for 2016 is coming to a close this month. A mixture of new...
Wargaming’s Hybrid Wars launches September 29 (update)
Wargaming’s WG Labs division has announced it will release Hybrid Wars on Steam and GOG on September 29. From the Extreme Developers studio, this top-down shooter has...
Gamers must wait for South Park: Fractured But Whole until 2017, but The Last Guardian takes its place
Ubisoft announced that its South Park: The Fractured But Whole has been delayed from December 6 until the first quarter of 2017. But instead of the goofy game from Trey Parker and Matt Stone, you’ll be able to play the long-awaited The Last Guardian on December 6.
August 2016 NPD: Madden, No Man’s Sky lift summer game spending
August isn’t typically a major month for consumer spending on consoles and software, but 2016 saw some growth last month thanks to big name...
Battlefield 1’s open beta attracted 13.2 million players
Y’all really wanted to get a whiff of that World War I action. Electronic Arts revealed today that the open beta multiplayer test for...
This is MMA fighter Conor McGregor in Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare
Activision released a story trailer for Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare today, and it gives us our first look at the science fiction version...
Epic Games grants another $100,000 to Unreal Engine 4 game developers
Epic Games announced the latest round of Unreal developer grant recipients, awarding $100,000 to six developers who are using the Unreal Engine 4 to make...
Divinity: Original Sin 2 launches in Early Access on Steam
The sequel to one of the best role-playing games of recent years (and my favorite of 2014) is now out for PCs — and...