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Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, we had tons of coverage straight from this year’s DICE event, we got our first good look at Persona 5, and we prepared you for World of Warcraft’s new raid.
Enjoy, and have a good weekend!
Pieces of flair and opinion
- The DeanBeat: DICE Summit shows that gaming has gone multi-generational
- How your Halo 5: Guardians beta feedback is changing sprint, weapons, and more
- Read+Watch+Listen: Bonus material for Resident Evil fans
- Rvckvs helps game companies monetize their biggest fans through merchandise
- XboxDVR.com’s new ‘Create GIF’ button is awesome
- WooHoo! The Sims celebrates 15 years today
- On The Sims’ 15th anniversary, one fan reflects on how it changed his life
- How virtual reality will change the way we play games in 2015
- Blackrock Foundry raid guide: World of Warcraft players, prepare to fight … more orcs
- We’re giving away an Xbox One
- Learn to love publishers, and more advice from a lawyer-turned-developer
DICE 2015
- Dragon Age: Inquisition wins Game of the Year
- Tetris duo reflects on the world’s most popular game, three decades later
- The ‘Age of Play’ is near, but several bosses stand in the way
- How Disney Infinity went from an extra mode to the company’s premier gaming service
- After Never Alone, E-Line Media and Alaska Native group see big opportunity in ‘world games’
- World of Tanks was never supposed to turn into an e-sport
- What was a game guy doing in the White House?
- Super Evil Megacorp boss looks to mobile gaming’s history for lessons on the industry’s future
- With $72M raised, Star Citizen’s Chris Roberts has become a crowdfunding believer
- Ex-Sega boss Tom Kalinske rattles off the lessons from decades of brand mastery
- Capy Games’ Nathan Vella says collaboration makes game projects better
- How zombies forever changed Call of Duty developer Treyarch
- Riot Games’ Brandon Beck says game industry doesn’t invest enough in its people
News
- Destiny is getting more than just The House of Wolves expansion in 2015
- Activision reports record earnings, digital revenues as Hearthstone reaches 25M players
- World of Warcraft surpasses 10M subscribers once again
- Mobile adventure game République finally comes to PC on Feb. 26 (update)
- Porsche will let you race the new Cayman GT4 right now … in EA’s Real Racing 3
- Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed: Rogue will use Tobii’s eye-tracking technology
- Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin is more of a director’s cut than a rehash
- Roblox is bringing in new talent to strengthen its executive team
- Persona 5 gameplay revealed
- Nintendo is taking a lot longer than ‘2 to 3′ days to process Creator’s Program videos
- PlayStation 4 sales surpassed 6.4M during the holiday season
- Veteran work-for-hire studio N-Space teams up with Warframe dev to make something of its own
- Game veterans launches crowdfunding campaign for Underworld Ascendant
- Gearbox is working on a new Borderlands game
- Grand Theft Auto V on PS4, Xbox One: Rockstar ships nearly 10M copies
- Grand Theft Auto Online leads Take-Two to huge digital growth
- Grand Theft Auto publisher Take-Two smashes Wall Street’s earnings targets
- College students: Your game could be at E3
- If cheap games is all you love, then the ‘Star Wars’ Humble Bundle is what you’ll receive
- Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi to get lifetime achievement award
- Razer beefs up its already powerful Blade gaming laptop
- Columbus Nova has no plans to shut down any Sony Online Entertainment games
- Cloud-gaming startup Shinra launches accelerator for game developers
- Vulcun announces $1M prize for League of Legends fantasy sports tournament
- H1Z1, DC Universe Online developer Sony Online Entertainment is no longer a part of Sony
- Nintendo’s final Club Nintendo catalog live — adds a ton of new games and gear
- Madden predicted the Super Bowl exactly
- Gaming Live launches its game livestreaming beta as a Twitch alternative
Mobile and social
- Ghostbusters gets the endless runner treatment in Monster Dash
- Ex-Bungie chief says making new mobile shooter was almost as tough as creating the first Halo
- MMX Racing creator Hutch raises funding and launches multiplayer update
- Glu goes ‘Left Shark’ as it follows up Kim Kardashian with Katy Perry mobile game
- Trivia Crack is the top-downloaded app in the world
- New e-sports app gives ‘TheScore’ on League of Legends, Dota 2, and more
- Real-money gaming on mobile is starting to make up ground on desktop
- Disney’s mobile games contribute to better bottom line — even as revenue drops
- Take-Two’s WWE SuperCard and NBA 2K Online rack up millions of players
- Japanese mobile publisher Gree invests in kid coders at S.F. game-making program
- Here are the nominees for the 11th annual International Mobile Gaming Awards
- Andy OS raises $3M to stream Android games directly to your Mac or Windows desktop
- Ucool spent $2.25M on the worst-rated Super Bowl commercial
- How one game’s usage fell and rose during the Super Bowl
- Liam Neeson stars in $9M Clash of Clans Super Bowl commercial
- Watch swimsuit model Kate Upton’s Game of War Super Bowl ad right here
Previews and interviews
- Gameloft tries the slower, high-quality approach with Dungeon Hunter 5
- From console to mobile: Game designer Peter Molyneux’s journey to reinvention (interview)
- How Space Ape aims to become one of the big hairy brutes of mobile gaming (interview)
- Mortal Kombat X’s character tier-list arguments are going to be hell
Reviews