The top 5 mobile games in 2016
Thousands of games came out on iOS and Android in 2016, and no one could play them all. But that’s not going to stop...
GamesBeat’s top 10 AR and VR stories of the year: Pikachu and sex
In 2016, we finally got high-end virtual reality headsets from Oculus, HTC, and Sony, but it was a yellow-electric rat and the adult-film industry...
Halo 5 player re-creates the Enterprise D from ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’
Halo 5’s Forge mode allows players to make their own levels, and some fans have gotten pretty creative. As a big Star Trek fan, I especially enjoy this creation by the YouTube channel Starship Forge of the Enterprise D from The Next Generation.
GamesBeat community manager Mike Minotti’s top 10 games of 2016
It’s hard to find a common link between all of the excellent games released in 2016. This isn’t the year of the bow or...
Akonia uses holography to create transparent augmented reality display
Akonia Holographics, a startup in Longmont, Colorado, spent years trying to make holographic data storage work. It didn’t succeed, but now it found a...
10 virtual reality projects that show off the wonders of 360-degree video
As more filmmakers dip a toe into VR, the sheer volume of 360-degree video releases can be overwhelming. Samsung today just released its top...
Oculus’s Jason Rubin on VR: ‘The next 12 to 24 months are where the real creativity is going to happen’
Every once in a while you get to see not one but two legends occupy a single stage. It happened for music lovers when Billy...
Pocket Strafe has a different solution to moving around in VR
Locomotion in virtual reality experiences and games is something that hasn’t been figured out entirely just yet. With headset tracking and sensors, players can...
Insomniac’s The Unspoken once had a different name and direction
The Unspoken is a multiplayer virtual reality video game that was released earlier this month as a launch title for the Oculus Touch platform....
GamesBeat’s 10 biggest stories of the year
Guides, Pokémon, and porn. Those are some of the most common themes you’ll find in our 10 most popular stories of the year. Our staff...