Welcome to a post-Thanksgiving GamesBeat weekly roundup! It’s time to snap out of your turkey coma with a week’s worth of gaming news and features, including some tips for virtual reality first-timers and some fun mods for Fallout 4.
Enjoy, and have a great weekend!
Pieces of flair and opinion
- DeanBeat: A big brain dump on video games in Montreal
- My mom’s holiday gift guide for gamers
- GamesBeat giveaway: Fallout 4 Xbox One bundle
- Nintendo Power’s Epic Center: a golden age of console role-playing games
- Gamers have so much to give thanks for — so don’t focus on the crap
- 5 cool Fallout 4 mods
- How EA’s Star Wars video game developers are approaching the creative process
- How Ubisoft’s Quebec City studio became the master of Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate
- Star Wars: Battlefront tips for intergalactic conquest and beating online strangers
- Heroes of the Storm designer guides us on how to win with Greymane and Lunara
- Fallout 4 guide: How to install mods
- 6 tips for your first time in virtual reality
- Nintendo’s biggest successes — and fumbles — from the era of the Super NES
- F-Zero and Super Mario World still hold console-launch lessons for Nintendo 25 years later
- Super Nintendo turns 25: Why it’s the best game console ever
News
- PlayStation Network is down and Sony is working to fix it
- Sony’s bringing PlayStation 4 Remote Play to PC and Mac
- Chinese blockbuster Cross Fire is crappy and fun — and here’s why it makes $1B a year
- Chinese publisher The9 signs $500M deal to secure the rights to Cross Fire 2
- Hearthstone is getting a $1M championship event in 2016
- EA promises free Star Wars: Battlefront maps beyond the Battle of Jakku DLC
- Sony has sold more than 30M PlayStation 4s to date
- Cooking startup financed by Valve boss Gabe Newell will make you ravenous before Thanksgiving
- EA says Battlefront is the biggest launch of a Star Wars game ever
- This mod makes Star Wars: Battlefront look impressive … most impressive
- Xbox Live’s December Games With Gold includes Thief, Van Helsing, and more
- Dota 2’s revenues slide even as worldwide digital sales reach $5.5B in October, according to analyst
- Fig levels up crowdfunding by accepting actual investments from gamers
- Judge dismisses ‘King of Kong’ star Billy Mitchell’s lawsuit against Cartoon Network
- AMD launches Radeon Software Crimson as your PC’s graphics OS
- Windows 10’s fall update is deactivating certain apps without asking
- EA’s Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare hits 8M players
- All 3,290 Japanese PlayStation games up for sale — bidding starts at $24,000
Mobile and social
- Vonvon CEO defends privacy practices of its ‘Most Used Words on Facebook’ app against critics
- Marmalade platform now offers Leadbolt app monetization services to developers
- iOS downloads soar 23% higher in October for popular apps even as advertising costs rise
- Wooga and Fox team up to make Futurama mobile game
- Mobile is the gateway for virtual reality becoming a $15.9B industry by 2019
- JetBet launches social sports app with Maxim men’s lifestyle brand
- Arnold Schwarzenegger stars in Machine Zone’s new Mobile Strike ad
- How China is maneuvering into the global gaming markets
Reviews, impressions, and previews
- Legacy of the Void is the weakest of StarCraft II’s single-player campaigns
- Gunjack is a harrowing shooter that shows the value of Samsung’s Gear VR
- World of Warcraft exec: We do things now we would’ve shot down 10 years ago
- Star Wars: Battlefront gives you nerdy chills even with a lack of content
- Heroes of the Storm’s two-player Cho’Gall is a chaotic riot — if you can find a partner