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Hello, and welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, Nintendo announced that they’re going to be making more NES Classic Editions next year, PewDiePie made another big mistake, and Thatgamecompany’s next project is coming to Apple devices first.
Enjoy, and have a great weekend!
Pieces of flair and opinion
- The DeanBeat: Our growing piles of video game shame
- Metroid: Samus Returns — 5 tips before your mission on SR388 begins
- PC Gaming Weekly: PUBG faces its next challenge — the fall game rush
- AR/VR Weekly: Apple’s incremental approach
- Every trailer from Nintendo’s September Direct
- GamesBeat conference moved to April 9 and April 10 in Berkeley
- Why someone would turn classics like Katamari into text games
- What is wrong with PewDiePie? GamesBeat Decides
- Knack 2 ending stretches out with multiple boss battles
- Canceled Witcher game details emerge in Polish documentary
- A guide to systems-based game development
News
- Destiny 2 boasts the biggest console game launch week of the year
- PikPok will launch Into the Dead sequel on October 13
- August 2017 NPD: Madden NFL 18 spikes the sales charts
- Grand Theft Auto V outsold every game except Madden in the U.S. last month
- Nintendo Switch outsold Xbox One and PlayStation 4 again in August
- Telltale names Zynga veteran Pete Hawley as CEO
- Fantasy Strike enters Steam Early Access as a more accessible fighting game
- Dell opens preorders for its Visor VR headset
- Switch gets Tencent’s Arena of Valor mobile MOBA
- Nintendo’s Arcade Archives brings classic games to the Switch
- Doom and Wolfenstein II are coming to the Nintendo Switch
- Project Octopath Traveler is Square Enix’s Switch exclusive RPG
- Xenoblade Chronicles 2 launches for the Switch on December 1
- Minecraft is now on Nintendo’s upgraded New 3DS systems
- Mario Party: The Top 100 is coming to the Nintendo 3DS on November 10
- Kirby: Battle Royale is coming to 3DS on January 19
- The Last of Us and Uncharted 4 director Bruce Straley is leaving Naughty Dog
- Shakes and Fidget: The Adventure is a pretty and cute hand-drawn adventure game
- The Little Ball That Could revives the dormant Super Monkey Ball genre
- Psyonix details Rocket League’s Autumn update and beyond
- Ghost Recon: Wildlands’s new PVP mode enters open beta test September 21
- Google Play’s Infinite Deviation program courts indie game devs
- PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds gets 3D voice positioning
- Fortnite is the latest game to catch the Battle Royale train
- AMD works with Amazon to create virtualized graphics in the cloud
- Nintendo to revive NES Classic Edition in 2018 as it extends SNES retro console shipments
- Virtuix launches suite of Omniverse VR games for arcades
- Worlds Adrift maker Bossa Studios raises $10 million for its endless MMO
- An Agar.io-like shooter is coming from the Grow Home team
- Next Nintendo Direct is focusing on Mario Odyssey, upcoming Switch and 3DS games
- Firewatch dev plans DMCA takedowns of PewDiePie’s videos over use of N-word
Mobile and social
- PhoneCast lets you play 2D Android apps in virtual reality on Gear VR
- Angry Birds maker Rovio sets IPO price range that values company around $1 billion
- Kahoot launches mobile app to make homework fun
- Zynga launches partnership with Ferrari in CSR2 mobile game
- Apple shows off the first ARKit apps and games
- The Machines is Directive Games’ augmented reality game for iOS
- Thatgamecompany reveals Sky for Apple TV 4K, iPad, and iPhone
Previews, reviews, and interviews
- Fortnite: Battle Royale is a crafty take on PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds
- Hyakki Castle begs you to do the one thing Dungeon Masters warn you about: Split the party
- Hiveswap: Act 1 review — a very internet adventure game based on the hit webcomic Homestuck
- Suda51 on Travis Strikes Again, working with Nintendo, and the Switch
- HP’s PC chief Ron Coughlin talks regaining PC share, targeting gamers, and expanding to VR
- Neverwinter’s Tomb of Annihilation brings D&D’s latest storyline to PS4 and Xbox One
- Metroid: Samus Returns review — and what a return
- HyperX’s tenkeyless Alloy FPS Pro appeals to the mechanical-keyboard minimalist