Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, we got better looks at the sci-fi title Mass Effect: Andromeda and snowboarding game Steep, and we discovered how the gaming industry has reacted to Donald Trump’s presidential win.
Enjoy, and have a great weekend!
Pieces of flair and opinion
- The DeanBeat: The game industry reacts to Trump’s triumph
- How the first person to get a PlayStation 4 feels about being the first to get PS4 Pro
- Tetris, VR, and escapism: Why we play
- PlayStation 4 Pro: Every PlayStation 4 Pro-compatible game so far
- 5 games the NES Classic shouldn’t have dumped
- Should you buy a PS4 Pro? GamesBeat Decides: Episode alpha 2
News
- Bossa Studios announces big playtest for Worlds Adrift online game
- October 2016 NPD: Xbox One outsold PlayStation 4 at U.S. retailers once again
- Nvidia’s Q3 revenue grows 54 percent thanks to Pascal GPU sales
- Nielsen: Overwatch fans are younger than other esports followers
- Atlas Reactor partners with ESL for its first major tournament
- Streamlabs lets YouTubers get paid in tips
- World of Tanks: Blitz brings its mobile armored battles to Steam
- PlayStation 4 is now a GIF factory
- Persona 5’s latest trailer shows off its talking cat
- Southeast Asia’s PC online and mobile game revenue to more than double to $3.3 billion by 2020
- Hyperkin’s NES Classic peripherals let you use a real NES gamepad
- Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare has fewer Steam players than Rainbow Six: Siege or Payday 2
- Vivendi’s latest purchase of Ubisoft stock shows it isn’t going away
- Paladins hits 4 million players since September open beta started
- Xbox Insider Program opens the development of future updates to all
- Venture capitalists contemplate how much exuberance is good for VR investing
- Deus Ex and Tomb Raider drive 23% revenue growth for Square Enix
- Every skin revealed for Overwatch’s new character, Sombra
- Mass Effect 2 and Mass Effect 3 now work on Xbox One and are part of the EA Access vault
- Hero’s Song takes it retro open-world to Steam Early Access
- Mass Effect: Andromeda trailer shows unfamiliar characters in an unknown galaxy
- Myst studio Cyan announces Obduction for PS4, PSVR, and HTC Vive
- DICE general manager Patrick Bach left EA after Battlefield 1 shipped
- Overwatch gets a new esports group from a Helsinki hockey team
- Ultrahaptics uses ultrasound so you can feel things in VR
- AMD ships three Polaris-based Radeon Pro chips for game and VR developers
- Xbox One chainsaws all comers as consoles crush mobile game ad spending in October
Mobile and social
- Final Fantasy: Brave Exvius and Brave Frontier start mobile crossover event
- Google Daydream View review: A massive step up from Cardboard, but content is lacking
- Mingle Games’ Calming Lia could help you fall asleep
- DeltaDNA study shows mobile game makers don’t know how to handle in-game ads
- DomiNations launches big update so players can enter the atomic age
- Pokémon Go’s daily-bonus update is live
- Square Enix taps Mobile Strike maker MZ to create Final Fantasy XV mobile MMO
- Blippar releases its AR and computer vision tech for third-party developers
- How Next Games stopped ad fraud in The Walking Dead: No Man’s Land
- The 6 stages of a free-to-play social gamer
Previews, reviews, and interviews
- Why Microsoft cares so much about Xbox Live’s new social features
- A pro snowboarder and a gold medal skier react to Ubisoft’s Steep
- How Ubisoft built a virtual mountain and then created a video game around it
- Ubisoft’s Steep is a kinetic dive into extreme winter sports
- PlayStation 4 Pro delivers the 4K content — but 1080p-TV owners shouldn’t upgrade yet