Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, we check out Pokémon Sun and Moon, Star Wars gets a new mobile game, and Battlefield 1 sells well.
Enjoy, and have a great weekend!
Pieces of flair and opinion
- The DeanBeat: Montreal talks capture the pulse of game developers
- Watch the making of a Nintendo Switch replica
- 5 tips before you start your Pokémon Sun and Moon adventure
- You’re probably going to have a bad time with Hearthstone’s Heroic Tavern Brawl
- Is NES Classic Edition worth the price? Will we get an SNES Classic? GamesBeat Decides
- Final Fantasy fans freak out over Conan O’Brien’s latest Clueless Gamer bit
- This Watch Dogs 2 mission resembles the Sony Pictures hack
- Watch Dogs 2 lets you drive a talking car similar to Knight Rider’s K.I.T.T.
News
- October 2016 NPD: Battlefield, Mafia, and Gears dominate the sales chart
- Star Wars: Battlefront’s Rogue One expansion debuts next month
- Former id Software exec Steve Nix starts ForwardXP VR studio
- MekaMon will turn your living room into a robot battleground
- Hothead’s Kill Shot series hits 65 million downloads
- Backward compatible Xbox 360 games now come in Xbox One cases
- Nintendo has begun promoting Battlefy’s Splatoon esports tournaments
- EA’s new rule for Twitch and YouTube streamers: You must disclose sponsorships
- Persona 5 delayed to April 4, 2017
- Nvidia: Porting PS4, Xbox One, and PC games to Nintendo Switch is simple
- Nintendo is creating real-life Zelda escape rooms across the U.S.
- Nutaku will invest $10 million in game developers who put sex scenes in NSFW games
- NES Classic Edition’s limited supply is attracting scalpers and their bots
- NES Classic Edition will be available for a few minutes each day through November 18 on Walmart’s website
- Ubisoft will remove a woman character’s exposed genitalia from Watch Dogs 2
- The Elder Scrolls Online gives you a free taste of Tamriel on PS4, PC, and Mac this week
- After 13 years of subscriptions, EVE Online’s latest update embraces free-to-play gamers
- Dishonored 2 has weak U.K. debut
- PlayStation 4 Pro teardown shows off the system’s 4K guts
- Wargaming brings Sega’s Total War: Arena under its new Alliance free-to-play banner
- Minecraft’s Exploration Update is live with spitting llamas and more
- Pokémon Sun and Moon somehow make Dugtrio more ridiculous
- Watch Dogs 2 takes dig at vanity of infamous pharmaceutical CEO
- PlayStation VR’s best-sellers include Batman and Job Simulator
Mobile and social
- Tenjin introduces self-service mobile marketing platform for mobile apps and games
- Meta game ads are the most effective in getting new mobile app installs
- Star Wars: Force Arena for mobile sure looks like a MOBA
- GSN’s Sparcade lets you play Centipede (and Two Dots soon) for real money
- Warner Bros. debuts Fantastic Beasts hidden-object game targeted at females
- Rovio continues reinvention with ‘ToonsTV for Samsung’ app featuring Angry Birds characters
- How Supercell kills its darlings to focus on potential hits
- Super Mario Run sprints to iPhone and iPad on December 15 for $10
- CrowdStar launches Design Home in pursuit of female mobile gamers
- New German mobile game studio Sviper raises seed round
Reviews, previews, and interviews
- Razer Kraken Pro V2 is a lightweight all-day gaming headset
- What it’s like to use a keyboard and mouse on PS4 or Xbox One with the Keymander
- Pokémon Sun and Moon make a good first impression with their formula-shaking tweaks
- How the composers of Mafia III’s music made their memorable tunes
- The Sandbox Evolution delivers pixelated user-generated worlds on Steam
- Ex-Sony exec Adam Boyes tells devs what to learn from the Gold Rush
- HyperX’s Alloy FPS keyboard puts a full-size layout and Cherry switches in a compact chassis