Categories Posted inin Gameplay Riot Games will host League of Legends events in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, and Taipei Posted byby Dean Takahashi January 28, 2019 1 min Riot Games revealed three Asian cities as the 2019 host communities for the League of Legends Mid-Season Invitational, a global League of Legends tournament... Continue Reading 1 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay Embody uses VR and tracking to center the body Posted byby Mike Minotti January 28, 2019 3 min Embody from Melissa Painter’s team at MAP Design Lab is being shown at Sundance 2019, featuring full body tracking with only a headset attached... Continue Reading 3 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay Life Is Strange 2 Episode 2 impressions — The lull before the storm Posted byby Dean Takahashi January 27, 2019 7 min Life Is Strange 2 Episode 1 did a stellar job showing the bond between two brothers with enough supernatural drama injected into the suburban... Continue Reading 7 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay Whispers in the Night is Fable’s groundbreaking AI experience Posted byby Mike Minotti January 27, 2019 3 min Fable is a content creation studio founded by Edward Saatchi and other alumni from Oculus Story Studio. After working on projects like Henry and... Continue Reading 3 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay Samsung steps up as an esports sponsor with Gen.G Posted byby Dean Takahashi January 27, 2019 2 min Gen.G has signed Samsung Electronics as an official sponsor for the company’s esports teams. The move is the first since Gen.G named Chris Park... Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay MelodyVR is rebuilding its VR concert app for a future Oculus device Posted byby Mike Minotti January 26, 2019 1 min It sure sounds like MelodyVR is coming to Oculus Quest at some point this year. In a recent update on the London Stock Exchange, MelodyVR... Continue Reading 1 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay GamesBeat Decides 109: Kingdom Hearts is garbage, but it’s a part of me Posted byby Jeff Grubb January 25, 2019 1 min The news was still slow this past week, but we have plenty to talk about. On this week’s episode of the GamesBeat Decides podcast,... Continue Reading 1 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay The DeanBeat — What’s the best way to experience a game for the first time? Posted byby Dean Takahashi January 25, 2019 6 min 2019 is only 25 days old, but I feel my pile of shame is already growing. I am falling behind on games this week.... Continue Reading 6 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay Unity game engine launches support for Kin cryptocurrency in indie games Posted byby Dean Takahashi January 25, 2019 3 min Unity Technologies‘ game engine is used widely by independent game developers, and now it will be easy for Unity developers to incorporate the Kin... Continue Reading 3 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay Rami Ismail’s GameDev.World will be a global game dev event translated into 8 languages Posted byby Dean Takahashi January 25, 2019 11 min Rami Ismail, cofounder of Nuclear Throne maker Vlambeer, became frustrated trying to get visas approved for developers to come to the U.S. for his... Continue Reading 11 min