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Thanks to the Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare leak, we’re having a busy day here at GamesBeat. Of course, most of the days are busy. Just look at our week’s worth of coverage below.
You’ll find out everything we know about the newest Call of Duty, see how Marvel’s coming to Disney Infinity, and learn about Microsoft’s new Xbox Entertainment Studios.
Happy reading, and have a good weekend!
Opions and pieces of flair
- The DeanBeat: Walking the line with unpopular video game causes
- Developer challenges my mom to review Escape Goat 2
- 10 bizarre — and real — video-game patents
- Four legends from gaming’s past
- Forget Marvel: Disney Infinity needs more Disney
- A new way to see: Why Oculus Rift and Google Glass are on a collision course
- A beginner’s guide to the history between Nosgoth and Legacy of Kain
- Comparing digital card games: Hearthstone vs. Magic 2014 vs. SolForge
- Puzzler: Guess the celebrity voices behind these game characters
News
- Eve Online developer is working on Dust 514 shooter follow-up for PC
- Does the next Call of Duty story have the juice to produce $1B in sales?
- Updated: Activision acknowledges leaks with unveiling of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
- The next Call of Duty is teased for May 4 revelation
- DayZ’s standalone sales surpass 2 million even though it’s ‘only’ an Early Access game
- Wonder Woman’s war comes to Gotham: DC Universe Online kicks off Amazon Fury expansion trilogy
- Doom co-creator John Carmack under fire for allegedly taking ‘proprietary technology’ to Facebook’s Oculus VR
- Trion Worlds takes Defiance into the brave new virtual world of free-to-play
- 18 year olds are making $10K a month from user-generated games in Roblox
- Can a two-person team create this beautiful 3D title on the PlayStation 4?
- Sony shows more indie love with more than 100 games coming to the PS4 and Vita
- A toy story: Disney Infinity is making more money than Skylanders
- Ouya finally getting triple-A games — thanks to the cloud
- Disney Infinity: Marvel Super Heroes is due out later this year as its own starter pack
- Mario Kart 8 makes YouTube-sharing history for Nintendo — and you get a free game if you buy it
- ‘Hunger Games’ film studio Lionsgate moves into the game business
- Microsoft and BesTV to launch Xbox One in China this September
- Sony makes the PlayStation 4 more social with latest system update
- Gaming advocacy group: The average gamer is 31, and most play on a console
- League of Legends, World of Tanks help PC spending surpass console gaming worldwide, proclaims analyst
- The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is out for Xbox One today despite reports it would skip Microsoft’s console
- Blizzard’s Heroes of the Storm online strategy game will make landfall in Southeast Asia
- Nintendo plans Smash Bros. tournament, livestream coverage, and ‘digital event’ for E3 trade show
- The Peopleless console? TowerFall sells a meager 7,000 copies on Ouya but hits stride on PS4
- Japanese media firm Kadokawa acquires Dark Souls developer From Software
- Titan killer? Bungie hopes its new trailer for Destiny will hook first-person shooter fans
- See how Microsoft is going Hollywood with Xbox Entertainment Studios
- Microsoft goes Hollywood as it unveils Xbox Originals television programs for Xbox Live
- Microsoft is taking Halo beyond gaming with two television projects
Mobile and social
- App Store downloads hit a record high in March, but marketing costs dipped
- Glu Mobile agrees to acquire Diner Dash developer PlayFirst
- Mobile gameplay-recording startup Kamcord presses play on $7.1M funding round
- Candy Crush Saga helps King account for a quarter of all time spent gaming on Android
- Heyzap finds a profitable business in showing targeted advertising to mobile social gamers
- Don’t Tap the White Tile is just the latest hit to prove no one really understands mobile gaming
- Supercell, GungHo, King dominate March mobile game revenue. What else is new? (Lots)
- Marvel Puzzle Quest’s road to the mythical $1 ARPDAU, Part 7: Event Analytics
- Zynga cofounder readies launch of Greedy Goblins from new mobile game studio
- Racing games outrun casual in Android mobile ad revenue in Q1
- Mobile apps could hit $70B in revenues by 2017
- Titanfall creator invests in mobile-gaming startup Nuclear Division (exclusive)
- Cut the Rope’s new partner reinforces the power of chat apps in Asia’s mobile-gaming market
- We’re getting Angry Birds fatigue — and it shows in studio’s falling profits
- Swrve is marketing automation for in-app monetization — 75 billion mobile actions a month
- Israel’s Nextpeer adds 1.5M users a day to its Android multiplayer mobile-gaming network
Previews and interviews
- Disney and Marvel talk about Disney Infinity 2.0, toy designs, and the Hulk’s awesomeness
- The weapons and gadgets of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
- Virtual reality: Sony’s refreshingly honest thoughts on Oculus Rift, not needing triple-A, and similarities to the Wii U (exclusive)
- Card Hunter’s first expansion: League play, more loot, and the terror of the Sharkbear (interview)
Reviews and impressions
- Blizzard’s Heroes of the Storm is checkers to League of Legends’, Dota 2′s chess
- Daylight delivers just as many frustrations as scares (review)
- Mario Golf: World Tour is a great physics puzzler with a campaign that may disappoint fans (review)
- Kirby: Triple Deluxe sets a new standard for 2D platformers on the 3DS (review)