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Hello, and welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup. This time, we made a case for Sega’s Panzer Dragoon Saga to return on PC, we tried PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds on the Xbox One, and Jump introduces itself as the Netflix for indie games.
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Pieces of flair and opinion
- The DeanBeat: Having a great time in Destiny 2
- PC Gaming Weekly: One way Steam could disarm review-bombers
- Sega should revive Panzer Dragoon Saga on PC next
- Call of Duty: WWII documentary invites players to remember history
- The Switch and VR represent new audiences for Bethesda
- AR/VR Weekly: Augmented reality needs our patience
- Microsoft has lined up plenty of indie games for the Xbox One X
- Why did Lawbreakers and Agents of Mayhem bomb? GamesBeat Decides
- How Andy Serkis’ games studio created Planet of the Apes: Last Frontier
- Turn 10 Studios details Forza Motorsport 7’s 4K graphics
- NHL 18 is finally teaching me how to win
- Someone unlocked Switch’s hidden NES Golf game
- We can all help with Overwatch’s toxicity — but Blizzard must lead
News
- Red Dead Redemption 2 news is coming from Rockstar on September 28
- LawBreakers gets team deathmatch and its first post-launch map
- Intel partners with Blueprint Reality to show off VR content
- Ron Gilbert’s Thimbleweed Park is now out on Switch
- HTC Vive will share 100% of holiday app revenues with developers
- Nvidia cuts Shield TV to $180 ahead of Apple TV launch
- Absolver gets ‘major update’ as sales surpass 250,000 copies
- AOC introduces 32-inch curved 144Hz 1440p FreeSync monitor for $430
- Microsoft OKs Hyperkin’s remake of the original Xbox Duke controller
- Battlerite goes free-to-play with an official release on November 8
- Overwatch League adds its three final teams for its first season
- Tomb Raider reboot trailer drops as industry hopes video game movies finally find an audience
- Valve’s review-bomb fix won’t fix review bombing
- Xbox chief Phil Spencer promoted to Microsoft leadership group
- Overwatch’s new update with Junkertown and the Mercy/D.Va changes is live
- Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner – Mars brings VR mech fighting to PC
- YouTube Gaming adds Twitch-like subscriptions called Sponsorships
- Grand Theft Auto Online’s new mode pits a big gunship against a team of smaller choppers
- Jump is a Netflix for indie games that promises better discoverability than Steam
- Monster Hunter: World gets a January 26 release date for PS4 and Xbox One
- Left Alive is Square Enix’s new survival shooter for PS4 and PC
- Final Fantasy IX is now on PlayStation 4
- Divinity: Original Sin 2 studio claims it set a Steam RPG record
- Hearthstone’s big nerfs are live after a messy tournament
Mobile and social
- Star Trek: Timelines is adding content from the new Discovery show
- Advrty brings native ads to virtual reality
- Hironobu Sakaguchi’s Terra Battle 2 launches on iOS and Android
- Quartz adds augmented reality models to its news reports
- Morpholio’s Trace uses augmented reality to give artists accurate measurements
- ARKit games roundup: What’s coming to the Apple App Store and iOS 11
- App Annie now tracks Android apps in China
- 3 things you need to know about augmented reality in China
Reviews, previews, and interviews
- SteamWorld Dig 2 is impossible to put down
- Another Lost Phone review — an exploration of empathy that’s all too brief
- The Nintendo Switch can handle Doom with all its blood and guts
- The Evil Within 2: Horror so well done that you can’t look away
- Middle-earth: Shadow of War hands-on — fighting an orc swarm in a huge citadel
- Hands-on with PlayerUnknown Battlegrounds, the Xbox One’s secret weapon
- Super Lucky’s Tale — hands-on with Microsoft’s new mascot
- Planet of the Apes: Last Frontier — hands-on with a new kind of movie-like game
- Forza Motorsport 7 hands-on — 4K racing is fast and immersive
- Lone Echo nails the 3 keys to VR gaming
- Call of Duty: WWII asks if you’re willing to disobey orders
- Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite review — corny, smaller roster, but still fun
- Razer’s Lancehead is the wireless gaming mouse to get
- The Little Ball That Could is a solid marble platformer