Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, Take-Two revealed that Rockstar Games will announce its new projects soon, two of the best Batman games are getting remastered and packaged together, and we looked at a game about Syrian refugees.
Happy reading, and have a great weekend!
Pieces of flair and opinion
- The DeanBeat: Games are on the cusp of great things again
- Pornhub’s Bangfit ‘sexercises’ the idea behind the Wii Fit
- Why finding a publishing partner in Southeast Asia is like Tinder and marriage
- This Kickstarter wants men to control games with their pee
- How virtual reality in 2016 prepares us for the Internet of experiences
- Indie darling Undertale’s best secrets and trivia
- Rift turns 5: Trion Worlds CEO reflects on massively multiplayer game’s success
- YouTube Gaming is awash in gaming rap videos
- How CastAR’s Jeri Ellsworth will use augmented reality for fun tabletop gaming
- How Samsung plans to snare game developers with its ‘Made for Samsung’ program
News
- China’s NetEase will take Minecraft into China on mobile devices and PCs
- Google Play awards show the diversity of Android apps and games
- Google shows off its latest Project Tango experiments
- Path of Exile’s June 3 update is wrapped in Prophecy
- Overwatch’s May 24 launch actually happens May 23 in North America
- Time Machine VR can now transport Rift and Vive users to the age of dinosaurs
- Halo 5’s Forge map-making tool is coming to Windows 10 — without the full game
- With fewer megadeals in Q1, U.S. entertainment and media deals fall to lowest point in two years
- Rockstar Games has shipped more than 65 million copies of Grand Theft Auto V
- Rockstar Games’ new projects will be ‘revealed soon’
- Take-Two’s fiscal year 2016 was stronger than expected thanks to XCOM 2 and Grand Theft Auto
- Electronic Arts chief creativer director Rich Hilleman leaves the company
- DreamWorks Animation veterans create Spaces VR startup with $3M in funding
- Epic Games gives out $75,000 in developer grants
- Sword Coast Legends gets its free Rage of Demons DLC — weeks after N-Space shuts down (update)
- Nvidia’s Tesla M10 graphics chip can deliver virtualized apps to 64 users at once
- Holy remasters, Batman: PS4, Xbox One get two Arkham games in one package
- Blizzard president Mike Morhaime ‘disappointed’ by racist online chat during Hearthstone event (update)
- The ‘President of Virtual Reality’ says he can create 3 million jobs in VR
- Obsidian Entertainment confirms Pillars of Eternity II is in development
- EA renews partnership with innovative Unravel creator Coldwood Interactive
- Lucid Sight scores $3.5 million for VR game development and ad platform
- Heroes of the Storm’s newest character is a time-traveling dragon
- Gameplay footage of the lost PSP version of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion surfaces
- Minecraft’s price on PC is going up in many markets — but not in the U.S.
- Xbox Live is giving away nearly 1 million dead gamertags on May 18
- Overwatch’s newest short details the tortured relationship between Hanzo and Genji
- Tavern Tales hits Hearthstone’s summer esports circuit in July — and it’s an open event
- Gamer gear maker Razer opens its first U.S. store in San Francisco
- Nintendo’s Yo-Kai Watch 2 is coming to the U.S. on September 30
- Nintendo eyes expansion into film business
- Rovio: ‘The Angry Birds Movie’ brought in $43M in its opening weekend
- Nvidia’s hardware keeps winning because of its software
Mobile and social
- MobFox enables easy ad monetization for mobile app publishers
- Ubisoft bringing a new Assassin’s Creed, Hungry Shark World for Android to China
- Google Play is coming to Chrome OS in September
- Google announces VR NDK for Daydream, native Unity integration coming this summer
- Google’s Daydream VR gets a heavyweight partner: Epic Games and its Unreal Engine 4 toolkit
- Nexon’s hit Heroes of Incredible Tales is going mobile across the globe
- Yahoo launches esports app for iPhone, lets you set alerts for upcoming matches
- Dojo Madness bags $4.5M for its League of Legends coaching app
- Zynga makes Wizard of Oz join the match-3 parade
- Underworld Overlord will make you a VR dungeon master on Google’s Daydream
- Google’s Daydream VR getting two games from U.K.-based nDreams
- China’s NetEase is making a game for Google’s new Daydream mobile VR platform (update)
- With over 65 billion app installs in 2015, Google gives developers new Play store features
- Oops, Glu does it again with Britney Spears mobile game
- Apple woos developers with new app design accelerator in India
- 1,887 developers make more than $1M annually from the mobile app markets
- Soar with the Blue Angels in this upcoming iOS, Android flight sim
- Hearts of Iron: War Stories brings a Choose You Own Adventure-style Paradox game to mobile
- Glispa acquires Brazilian mobile ad marketing firm Mobils
- Why Thailand’s military coup is great for the country’s mobile gaming business
- The new rules for navigating ‘that damn App Store’
- Lionsgate and Fifth Journey get tight with movie-based mobile games
- Taqtile Mobility creates a HoloLens demo for the PGA Tour
- Final Fantasy Brave Exvius is an original mobile RPG that’s coming to the West
- Playwire launches a free video player for indie publishers
- Report says SoftBank considering sale of Supercell at $5B-plus valuation
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