If Battlefield 4’s kicked you out of one match too many, why not calm yourself by catching up on a week’s worth of GamesBeat’s content?
We’ve covered Battlefield 4’s woes, some next-gen sales, and pretty much every other notable event from the last week in the world of gaming.
Welcome to the next-gen
- The DeanBeat: How quickly will we become bored with the new consoles?
- How to turn Xbox One text codes into Kinect-redeemable QR codes
- Xbox One or PlayStation 4? The GamesBeat community chooses
- Microsoft: ‘We are delivering consoles to retailers as fast as possible’
- Microsoft counters 2.1M PlayStation 4s sold with an infographic about zombies and combos
- Global PS4 sales top 2.1M units after big launch in Europe and Latin America
- Microsoft’s ‘Threshold’ initiative will further unify Windows across mobile, desktop, and Xbox One
News
- You can use Bitcoin to buy drugs, cars, and now … Ouya games
- Ultra Street Fighter IV goes live in June
- Hardware manufacturer Piixl reveals a Steam Machine that latches to your TV like a jetpack
- Sega releases 3D versions of Sonic the Hedgehog and Altered Beast on 3DS
- Sony’s Gracenote powers music-matching service for Xbox Music
- Electronic Arts: No more Battlefield 4 expansions until ‘we sort out all’ of the game’s problems
- Nintendo plays its holiday ace card: A 2DS bundled with Pokémon X or Y
- Valve is now a card-carrying member of The Linux Foundation
- DICE delays Battlefield 4 PS4 patch (even as it releases an expansion)
- EA unveils Battlefield 4: China Rising expansion
- Analyst expects Southeast Asian game market to reach $1.2B by 2017 — and unlike China, it’s not all mobile
- Microsoft’s Xbox One wins early sales battle on Black Friday
Social and mobile
- Kabam launches new Hobbit games in advance of big movie release
- Android’s share of global device sales growing 14-times faster than iOS
- Mobile game publisher Kabam drops $18M to put its name on UC Berkeley’s football field
- Android’s revenue per user is higher on Gingerbread OS than on Jelly Bean — and that’s potentially a good thing
- Incuvo’s Createrria makes it easy to craft your own games on the iPad
- Samsung and Fingerprint team up to create safe mobile apps network for kids
- A $5 million gamble: Spil Games sets up new fund for developers making HTML5 games
- The iPad has a huge hit in Natural Motion’s Clumsy Ninja, with 10M downloads in a week
- High 5 Games seeks to cash in on Asian-themed social casino games
Previews
- Fact and fiction clash on War of the Vikings’s bloody battlefields (preview)
- World of Tanks: 360 Edition shows what goes into making a proper PC-to-console port (preview)
Reviews
- Tiny Brains is a great PS4 co-op experience that’s far too short for the price (review)
- Battlefield 4 finally outguns Call of Duty — and then shoots itself in the foot (review)
- Gran Turismo 6 is beautiful but boring car porn (review)
Pieces of flair
- How the players, developers, and leagues of e-sports are making money and creating a thriving industry
- How Ubisoft and a marketing firm used YouTube to lure guitar learners to Rocksmith
- You can buy this gamer PC for $13K (if you’re nuts)