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Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! We’re still posting stories from last week’s Electronic Entertainment Expo, including interviews with the director of the new God of War, Cory Barlog. Also, Mighty No. 9 has a rough start, and Overwatch makes a ton of money in digital sales.
Enjoy, and have a great weekend!
Pieces of flair and opinion
- The DeanBeat: Shooters. Zombies. Pirates. Gods. My picks for the best games of E3
- GamesBeat’s E3 Non-Awards: Most hectic multiplayer game to try on a small TV
- Why mobile game developers should take influencer marketing seriously
- Here’s a handsome boy (Jon Snow actor Kit Harington) in a face scanner for Call of Duty
- Nintendo 64 turns 20: Our favorite games
- Watch us play: Nintendo 64
- Super Mario 64 turns 20 and is still one of the greatest 3D games ever
- The Nintendo 64 is now 20 years old
- GamesBeat’s E3 Non-Awards: Best beard that signifies maturity and hipness
- GamesBeat’s E3 Non-Awards: Best showfloor booth boy with a whip and cowboy hat
- Introducing the GamesBeat 2016 developer contest
- Quake shook up the shooter market 20 years ago
- GamesBeat 2016 will examine AR and VR beyond games
- E3 2016: PlayStation VR made Oculus CEO Palmer Luckey ‘really happy’
- PlayStation VR’s weakness is the Move controller
- Yoshi’s feet and other secrets about Mario’s dinosaur friend
- The most popular games of E3 2016, based on this week’s search results
News
- More Pokémon Sun and Moon details are coming on July 1
- GamesBeat’s E3 Non-Awards: The VR game that induced an out-of-body experience
- Civilization V is set to invade North America’s high schools
- Nintendo insists that Paper Mario: Color Splash joke wasn’t about Gamergate [update]
- Overwatch is a digital-sales behemoth with $269M in May, according to analyst
- Twitch will give out $63,000 in prizes at TwitchCon cosplay contest
- Pac-Man 256 is munching endless pellets on PS4, Xbox One, and Steam
- FCC head Tom Wheeler: Virtual reality ‘shouldn’t have gatekeepers’
- Minecraft’s new add-ons turn you into a modder
- Piper raises $2.1M in seed funding for kids’ DIY computer kits and education push
- Minecraft Realms won’t require Xbox Live Gold for cross-platform play
- Mighty No. 9’s launch is a mess, but Deep Silver promises relief to Wii U players
- Fable Fortune closes its Kickstarter campaign — because it’s found outside funding
- Science Game Lab to be a central hub for scientists and gamers
- GamEffective raises $7 million to gamify worker performance
- VR report says consumer interest in virtual reality goes far beyond games
- Minecraft: Wii U Edition gets a physical release
- How the Virtual Reality Company will use $23 million in fresh funding
Mobile and social
- Analysis of 10 billion mobile video ads shows what gets your app installed
- Kill Shot Bravo developer finds partner to launch sniper game in China
- Vainglory snags Amazon Appstore as a major esports sponsor
- Zynga chills out with launch of Ice Age: Arctic Blast mobile match-3 game
- With Supercell, China’s Tencent will command 13% of $99 billion game business
- South Korea’s Netmarble uses Marvel to bring its mobile games to the West
- Tencent-led consortium to acquire up to 84% stake in Supercell from SoftBank at $10.2 billion valuation
- Irreverent indie house Devolver Digital releases the Xsplit game-broadcasting tool on Steam
- Asus is the most popular brand among PC gamers in the U.S.
- [Updated] Nix Hydra’s Egg! mobile game tops 2 million downloads in first two weeks
Previews, reviews, and interviews
- Horizon: Zero Dawn’s hero is fighting against religion as much as robot dinosaurs
- How Activision will make Call of Duty into a bigger esports draw
- Warner Bros. is racing ahead with internal studios creating console and PC games
- God of War director Cory Balrog says that Sony’s violent series is growing up with the industry
- Asus is the most popular brand among PC gamers in the U.S.
- As Alienware turns 20, the line between PCs and game consoles blurs
- How Days Gone creators built the horde of zombie-like creatures in their E3 demo
- Infinity Ward explains its dazzling ship assault demo for Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare
- Sony’s Cory Barlog answers our questions about the amazing God of War demo
- Guerrilla Games explains the story behind the PlayStation 4’s Horizon: Zero Dawn