Hello, and welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, Dragon Ball Fighterz gets a release date, we kill Nazis in Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, and Animal Crossing is going camping on Android and iOS.
Enjoy, and have a great weekend!
Pieces of flair and opinion
- The DeanBeat: Inside Microsoft’s Inclusive Technologies Lab
- PC Gaming Weekly: Meet your Destiny (2)
- Is Super Mario Odyssey perfect? GamesBeat Decides
- 10 Super Mario Odyssey tips: An essential guide to Moons, hats, coins, and costumes
- PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds cheating is out of control
- AR/VR Weekly: the ‘your rump has too much bump’ edition
- Can Assassin’s Creed still work after Zelda: Breath of the Wild? GamesBeat Decides
- NeuroPlus brain-controlled games help improve your concentration
News
- Rocket League developer partners with Warner Bros. for worldwide retail distribution
- Overwatch League begins to take shape as KSV Esports unveils Seoul Dynasty
- Microsoft’s Game Pass success boosts revenue despite sluggish Xbox One sales
- Freddy Krueger joins Dead by Daylight’s cast of horrors
- Fortnite spooks up Halloween content and big Battle Royale update
- AMD launches Ryzen-Vega combo chips for world’s fastest, most power-efficient laptops
- Magic: The Gathering — Arena hits closed beta in late November
- Seagate launches 4TB hard drive for the PlayStation 4
- Steam finally offers digital gift cards
- Destiny 2 PC players claim Bungie is banning them without justification
- Metal Gear Survive and its ironic title will launch February 20
- Microsoft kills Kinect, its motion control camera for Xbox and Windows
- I Expect You to Die’s new DLC level pulls into the station of Schell Games’ VR hit
- Destiny 2 doesn’t work with old AMD Phenom II CPUs
- AMD returns to profitability in Q3 2017 as Ryzen takes off
- Destiny 2 is live now on Battle.net
- Double Fine unveils 70-game lineup for Day of the Devs indie festival
- Asmodee partners with Fantasy Flight for new digital board game studio
- PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Xbox One version will get a physical release
- Esports gets a new player-focused convention: GG Expo
- Mario + Rabbids beats Marvel vs. Capcom in September’s crossover battle
- September 2017 NPD: Destiny 2 outshoots NBA 2K18 for the top spot
- Destiny 2 outsold every 2017 release in less than a month
- Super NES Classic outsold Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One
- Blizzard is going to make it easier to gift your friends things like Hearthstone packs
- Cloud9 raises $25 million, and investors include WWE and Wizards co-owner
- PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds dev invests in gaming capital firm ESDF
- Nintendo Switch gets the demon-summoning fantasia it deserves with Shin Megami Tensei V
- Dragon Ball Fighterz summons the energy for a January 26 release
- Analogue’s Super NT SNES comes with unreleased director’s cut of Super Turrican
- Treasure Hunters FanClub will marshal fans to fund indie game developers
Mobile and social
- Vainglory mobile MOBA adds 5-on-5 battles
- Resolution Games’ swashbuckling VR adventure Narrows sets sail for Google Daydream
- Dreamworks Universe of Legends: Where Shrek meets Kung-Fu Panda and dragons
- Nintendo reveals Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp for iOS and Android
- Subsurface Circular brings robot existentialism to the iPad
- Google Assistant now has 50 apps and games for kids
Previews, reviews, and interviews
- Hidden Agenda: Sony’s new PlayLink game lets your team decide how to play
- Terroir is a tycoon game that takes you from vine to wine
- Bury Me, My Love review — an intensely personal look at the journeys of Syrian refugees
- Super Mario Odyssey review — Nintendo’s best Mario game ever
- Assassin’s Creed: Origins review-in-progress — side quests waylay a search for justice
- Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus review: Complicity in Nazi America
- Game Boss interview: Zoe Quinn’s Crash Override Network fights online abuse
- High Hell review — a gleeful absurd heist against the devil himself
- Game Boss interview: How Zoe Quinn survived Gamergate and lived to fight Internet hate
- Projection: First Light is a puzzle platformer with puppetry
- Game boss interview: Tameem Antoniades’s journey into madness with Hellblade
- The Black Widow gives you a Ouija board to talk to the spirit of a murderer