Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, Super Mario Run finally come out on Android, Yooka-Laylee’s developers deal with the fallout of a popular YouTuber’s racist remarks, and Red Dead Redemption is coming to PC … as a Grand Theft Auto V mod.
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Pieces of flair and opinion
- The DeanBeat: Bouncing between the vast worlds of Zelda and Mass Effect: Andromeda
- Self-driving car expert and Project Cars exec to speak at GamesBeat Summit
- 6 ways to invest in augmented reality
- Is Mass Effect: Andromeda a success or a failure? GamesBeat Decides
- How to test Splatoon 2 for Nintendo Switch
- Watch a Guardian ignore Link to fight a Stone Talus in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
- The emerging business strategies for monetizing virtual reality
- How Magic Leap’s gaming wizard sees the future of mixed reality games
- Magic Leap, the virtual reality backlash and the arc of technology
News
- Razer to pay people zVault currency for playing PC games like Overwatch
- InXile’s Brian Fargo to retire after Wasteland 3 is done in 2019
- Pokémon drove 27.8% growth in collectibles sales for GameStop last quarter
- GameStop retail stores saw 13 percent revenue drop in the fourth quarter
- Respawn reveals Titanfall 2’s next content drop brings back a classic map
- Yooka-Laylee developer removes voice of YouTube personality JonTron after racist statements
- Fig announces fans and investors can own a stake in Wasteland 3
- Destiny 2 is coming in September according to leaked, unconfirmed poster
- Electronic Arts reveals playable games for EA Play event
- Tencent leads the top 25 public game companies with $10.2 billion in revenues
- Wii U emulator team has huge parts of Zelda: Breath of the Wild working on PC
- Steam rival GOG Galaxy exits beta with universal cloud saves and more customization
- Rocket League’s latest update introduces new mode and fourth competitive season
- Chrono.gg bags $1 million for PC store that sells 1 game at a time
- Twitch and esports event group DreamHack renew their partnership for 2017
- Game about Iran’s revolution nets first U.K. acting nomination for a Muslim actor
- Red Dead Redemption is coming to PC — as a Grand Theft Auto V fan mod
- Game academy opens submissions for video game scholarships
- ARM unveils Dynamiq multicore chip designs for faster AI and cloud computing
- Nintendo is shipping more Switch systems to U.S. retailers this week
- Mass Effect: Andromeda’s latest patch fixes black-screen bug and multiplayer issues
- Xbox One update takes players into the Arena with custom gamerpics
Mobile and social
- Kim Kardashian launches Facebook Messenger bot to promote her mobile game
- Lionsgate’s gaming division has a hell of a good day with Power Rangers launch
- Plarium and Fox Interactive debut Rio: Match-3 Party mobile game
- Family Guy: Another Freakin’ Mobile Game attempts to bring the show’s humor to the match-3 field
- Kalypso’s quiz companion app is a novel way to promote a strategy game
- Super Mario Run is out on Android early
- Android software company Cyanogen reportedly shot down working on a Nintendo OS
- Akamai accelerates Netflix-like video services and game downloads
- Kidoz content-discovery network jumps from 1 million to 50 million users in a year
- Netmarble to raise $2.4 billion in IPO for it mobile gaming business
- PlayFab taps IBM’s Watson AI to understand why gamers keep playing
- Blackstorm Labs seizes the HTML5 instant games opportunity
Previews, reviews, and interviews
- Preview: What Remains of Edith Finch is a haunting tale of 13 deaths
- Razer’s Blackwidow Chroma V2 is a subtle and solid refresh of its flagship keyboard
- Mass Effect: Andromeda’s Act I: The good and the bad
- LucidSound’s LS40 gaming headset looks and sounds great in every situation
- This boss fight captures Mass Effect: Andromeda’s highs and lows
- Mass Effect: Andromeda is EA’s Godfather III