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Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, a mother reviews Mortal Kombat X, Blizzard’s anticipated online strategy game Heroes of the Storm gets an official release date, and we looked at Riot Games’ new campus.
Enjoy, and have a great weekend!
Pieces of flair and opinion
- The DeanBeat: Germany is still on the cusp of gaming greatness
- The top 8 Apple Watch games at launch
- NoScope takes on Gunnar with gamer glasses that work with your prescription specs
- Gamers react to paying for mods on Steam
- Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft Blackrock Mountain guide — how to beat Blackwing Lair
- My mom reviews Mortal Kombat X
- The house that League of Legends built: a look inside Riot Games’ new campus
News
- Resident Evil HD Remastered sells 1M digital copies
- Zynga’s No. 2 exec Clive Downie joins Unity Technologies as chief marketing officer
- Xbox revenues down 24% for Microsoft’s third quarter largely due to the Xbox One price cut
- Steam introduces a way for you to buy mods for games like The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
- Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft’s fourth Blackrock Mountain wing — Blackwing Lair — is live
- China’s digital games market growth is 5 times bigger than the rest of Asia’s in 2015
- New Bloodborne update improves loading times
- How to install Grand Theft Auto V mods on PC
- ESPN2 will air a live e-sports match this Sunday for the first time ever
- Konami’s Star Wars: Force Collection gets a Contra-style minigame starring Chewbacca
- Latest Xbox One update delivers on Microsoft’s promise to highlight power options during startup
- World of Warcraft’s lead designer joins Unity as creative adviser — and kicks off a world tour
- The Earth will spend $91.5B on video games this year
- BBC’s Grand Theft Auto ‘factual drama’ stars Daniel Radcliffe and Bill Paxton
- Microsoft is making HoloLens games — and attacking virtual reality’s momentum
- iHeartRadio comes to Xbox One and Xbox 360 with a motion and voice-sensing app
- Rock Band 4 lets the roadie Mad Catz join the tour
- Gears of War’s cinematics director leaves Epic to join Microsoft
- Gaming’s top 25 public companies generated $54.1B in revenue last year
- Phil Harrison is using top-secret Microsoft tech at his new startup
- Blizzard’s Heroes of the Storm online strategy game officially launches June 2
- Valve limits Steam features for users who’ve spent less than $5
Mobile and social
- Wooga unleashes Toby, a free Apple Watch virtual pet game
- Publishers Clearing House acquires LiveToWin mobile app to reach young people
- Here’s what those free apps with ad support really cost you: 79% more data use
- Pioneering social music app maker Smule raises $38 million
- Ghostbusters mobile game’s sexualized women contradict the new film’s female-friendly approach
- Samsung Gear VR headset for Galaxy S6 opens for preorders in the U.S. on April 24 at Best Buy
- Expansion is coming: Game of Thrones’ social game is getting Season 5 content
- Was that Kate Upton Super Bowl ad worth it? AppsFlyer could tell you
- A quick survey of virtual reality apps beyond gaming
- Demographics Pro lets marketers zero in on ‘influencers’
- Vungle launches its creative labs to help craft better mobile-app ads
- Trivia Crack is coming to Apple Watch
- This game thinks it’s worth $28 on mobile
- UFC is the latest EA Sports game to go mobile
- Rovio’s Angry Birds: Stella hits 30M downloads — and is a hit with millennial women
- Kabam restructures to focus only on the biggest mobile game hits
- Steve Jobs used LSD and pot, but you can only play this marijuana-growing game on Android
- HomeLabs looks to brain games to raise awareness for Parkinson’s Disease
Previews and interviews
- Running with nostalgia: How Disney and G.I. Joe inspired a speedy pair of platformers
- Garfield creator Jim Davis on his Zelda diet and mobile feast
- Charnel House’s true horrors are ordinary people
Reviews