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Welcome to the weekly roundup! This time, we’re get ready for next week’s GamesBeat 2014 conference, talk about what the new iPhone will mean for gaming, and take a look at the upcoming holiday releases in a series of gaming guides.
Enjoy, and have a great weekend!
GamesBeat 2014
- GamesBeat 2014 mainstage agenda is best ever: With 101 speakers, 27 CEOs, 7 game VCs, and dozens of press
- GamesBeat University has the tips and tricks you need to run a modern game business
- GamesBeat 2014’s newest speakers feature execs from Nexon, OnLive, and Glu Mobile
- Meet the 7 finalists for the GamesBeat 2014 Who’s Got Game Innovation Showdown
- 15 years later and it’s still thinking: Our fondest memories of the Sega Dreamcast
- Sign up now to receive an invitation to the official GamesBeat 2014 after-party
- Meet the all-star moderators of GamesBeat 2014
Pieces of flair and opinion
- The DeanBeat: How to achieve total world domination and make a trillion dollars in games
- The early holiday gaming guide, part 1: PlayStation 4, PS3, and Vita
- The early holiday gaming guide, part 2: Xbox One and 360
- The early holiday gaming guide, part 3: Wii U and 3DS
- The early holiday gaming guide, part 4: PC
- Insane man beats Dark Souls with a Rock Band guitar
- A Shenmue pilgrimmage: Visiting the scenic real-life locations from Sega’s game
News
- Grand Theft Auto V for next-gen consoles hits stores Nov. 18
- Guardians prepare: Destiny’s getting a whole lot of extra content, starting today
- Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe donates $31M to stoke virtual reality studies at University of Maryland
- August 2014 NPD: PS4 outsells Xbox One for 8th straight month
- Don’t worry, Smash Bros. fans: Ness, Wario, and Falco are back
- Destiny was helping console digital sales even before it came out
- Learn to make games: 390 U.S. colleges now offer gaming design courses and degrees
- SETI announces game jam to enlist developers in the search for alien life
- Resident Evil: Revelations 2 set for weekly episodic release (trailer)
- Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto made a Pikmin movie
- Big bad Beatle ballad: Here’s Destiny’s theme song from Paul McCartney
- Blizzard announces new pet, mount, raid, battleground for World of Warcraft 10th anniversary
- Destiny brings in $500M in one day
- Destiny’s ‘Centipede’ and ‘Grape’ errors keeping college students from playing the shooter
- Amazon’s big (and expensive) game-industry ambitions
- Will Ferrell hates cancer — and he’ll play video games on Twitch to prove it
- Unity Technologies weighs its options, including a possible sale of the company (exclusive)
- Xbox One bombs in Japan even worse than you’d think
- DayZ still has two years of development ahead
- Microsoft is buying Minecraft, according to rumor
- Destiny servers down intermittently — Bungie’s blockbuster shooter experiencing connection errors
- EA cuts Ray Rice from Madden NFL 15 for knocking out fiancée
- More than a third of people in the U.S. older than 9 play PC games
- Age of Empires developers releasing new game with Stardock
- Xbox One’s October update will improve navigation and much more
- Analyst: PS4 sales slowed in August — Xbox One and Wii U both saw gains
- Super Smash Bros. live: Nintendo to broadcast upcoming games for 8 hours on Friday
- Destiny is the most preordered franchise debut in gaming history — and it makes sense
- Bungie warns about rushed Destiny reviews from day one ‘tire kickers’
Mobile and social
- Star Wars: Commander hits 5M mobile downloads in 3 weeks
- iPhone 6 getting FIFA Ultimate Team, Peggle Blast, and SimCity BuildIt
- Developers say new Apple devices — even the Apple Watch — will be good for games
- iPhone 6 and 6 Plus getting support from EA, Ubisoft, and more
- Apple’s new A8 processor will power console-like 3D mobile games
- Type to win in the newest Final Fantasy mobile game, World Wide Words
- Square Enix bringing Final Fantasy VII and more to mobile with its Dive In streaming service
- Berlin’s Adjust app analytics firm raises $7.6M as it expands overseas
Previews and interviews
- GaymerX is dead, long live GX3 (Interview)
- To troll or not to troll: Voting for player death in crowd-play game Dick Starr Conquers Mars
- Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth takes Atlus’s memorable high schoolers on an Etrian odyssey
Reviews