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We’ve had a busy time here at GamesBeat! We’ve been covering the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco all week, and you can find all of our coverage on all the news and virtual reality experiences from the show below.
Enjoy, and have a great weekend!
GDC 2016
- The DeanBeat: GDC 2016’s blockbuster moments, VR demos, and indie victories
- Industrial Light & Magic explains why punching R2-D2 is crucial to VR
- Lucky’s Tale sometimes feels like the Big Bad Wolf is coming at you in virtual reality
- This gives us an idea of how sudden Fable Legends’ cancellation was
- Hands-on with Rebellion’s chaotic Battlezone on PlayStation VR
- The Witcher 3 takes top honors at GDC Awards while Her Story racks up other wins
- How a bunch of MIT dropouts created Ms. Pac-Man
- Gaming all-stars reflect on 30 years of a dynamic industry
- Sam Barlow’s Her Story wins grand prize at Independent Games Festival
- Twitch users decided my fate in a VR game built on Amazon Lumberyard
- Oculus Rift made me realize I only want to play games in virtual reality
- Watch Sony’s PlayStation VR social experiment captivate an audience of developers
- Epic Games demos amazing real-time motion capture for Ninja Theory’s Hellblade
- Xbox Live’s new tournament tool makes Xbox One more attractive for esports developers
- Epic Games says Unreal Engine added 1.5 million users in past year
- Oculus gives Rift games a ‘barf-o-meter’ rating
- The latest breakthrough in virtual reality is turning ‘experiences’ into ‘real’ games
- Oculus takes multiplayer VR to the Wild West with Dead & Buried’s saloon gunfight
- How Super Smash Bros. Melee’s esports community keeps the fighter relevant 15 years after release
- Killer Queen shows that esports can bring arcades back to life
- Free-to-play is preparing to swarm into the virtual reality market
- Lucky’s Tale developer re-created Mario and Banjo-Kazooie levels to figure out VR level design
- Tyranny shows how Obsidian is ready to explore its dark side
- Stellaris lets you explore the galaxy — and conquer it — on May 9
- Sony partners with EA and Lucasfilm to create VR version of Star Wars: Battlefront
- If you own more than 10 games on Steam, ‘you don’t matter’ to the $99.3B gaming industry
- Unity shows off its highest-quality game projects in the works
- Hearts of Iron IV makes its general staff take on World War II easier to manage on June 6, D-Day
- Esports veterans talk about the risks of professional gaming
- Unity launches certification and collaboration features for game developers
- Werewolves Within is Ultimate Werewolf in virtual reality — and it’s social, too (update)
- Crytek switches CryEngine dev tool to ‘pay what you want’ model and sets up $1M indie fund
- Crytek unveils its next-generation, VR-enabled game engine CryEngine V
- Qualcomm launches virtual reality dev kit for Snapdragon mobile chips
- Microsoft’s using Minecraft to boost artificial intelligence research with Project AIX
- Sony PlayStation VR launch bundle, with camera and controllers, goes on presale March 22 for $500
- Sony will reject PlayStation VR games that aren’t at least 60 frames per second
- Razer’s laptop graphics card add-on ships in April for $500
- PlayStation VR’s processing unit is off-limits to developers and isn’t a separate GPU
- Gaming veterans start $50M virtual reality and augmented reality fund
- AMD throws its support behind VR and demos next-gen graphics chip
- Star Wars: Trials on Tatooine is Industrial Light and Magic’s new virtual reality game
- Sony announces PlayStation VR will launch in October for $399
Pieces of flair and opinion
- The most important changes in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and 3DS’s new patch
- Watch us throw people into a pachinko machine in Nintendo’s Miitomo mobile game
- Virtual reality has finally let me live my Star Wars dream
- Sony draws praise for PlayStation VR’s low price and game focus from industry watchers
- For $2K, Razer gives you a super-thin gaming laptop
- See Hideo Kojima and other game devs pose like awkward stock photo models
- Check out these trippy holograms from Microsoft’s Actiongram app for HoloLens
News
- Nintendo’s Miitomo for iOS tops Japan’s App Store in less than two days
- Game dev group targets ‘crunch time’ practices at blockbuster game publishers
- Scottish startup eeGeo raises $5 million to 3D-map the world
- The Division has the largest first week for a new game franchise
- Ark: Survival Evolved targets esports with Survival of the Fittest spinoff
- StarCraft II’s first mission bundle — Nova Covert Ops — starts on March 29
- Forge raises $4.5M to make editing and sharing gameplay clips easy
- Microsoft still accepts Bitcoin, apologizes for ‘inaccurate information’ on its site
- Google Play gets ‘Indie Corner’ to promote games from smaller studios
- Sony’s PlayStation Vue Internet TV service arrives in the U.S. for $30 a month
- Xbox One touts cross-network play with PC for indie games like Rocket League — and could add PS4
- Global games market forecast to hit $100B by 2019
- Warcraft III gets a new patch tomorrow over 13 years after its release
Mobile and social
- Tencent earnings: Revenue up 45% in Q4, profits miss estimates, no plans to spin off WeChat
- Disney and Hipster Whale team up to create Disney Crossy Road mobile game
- After IronSource merger, Supersonic unveils combined ad monetization for mobile apps
- Google lets Android developers build video recording and livestreaming into games
- Google beefs up ads, analytics, and updates for Android game developers
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