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Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, we talk about the best games and coolest technologies we saw at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, Angry Birds gets a Transformers crossover, and League of Legends is now a college sport.
You’ll find all of that and more below. Happy reading!
Pieces of flair and opinions
- The DeanBeat: The top 10 games you’ll be itching to play
- 5 ways to make Hearthstone even more addictive
- How to become a Let’s Player like PewDiePie and Game Grumps
- Alien: Isolation’s creative director talks through the classic film in this audio commentary track (exclusive)
- Goat Simulator: How to beat all quests, find all trophies, and unlock all Achievements
- GamesBeat’s favorite indies of E3 2014
- E3 2014: The Games of the Show (GamesBeat staff picks)
- The 10 coolest technologies for gamers at this year’s E3
- The first-person shooter problem: Why the games we love rarely change
- Is single-player dying? The move to multiplayer and the sacrifice of solitude
- The GamesBeat E3 2014 Non-Award Awards: The stuff no one else is writing about
- Still don’t want a Wii U? This is what Nintendo would say to convince you
- How the Zelda Wii U reveal trailer broke the Internet
News
- WWE 2K15 is getting a NBA facelift thanks to 2K’s tech
- League of Legends is now a college sport — and one university is offering scholarships for its team
- The Witcher 3 team wants to make President Obama an honorary witcher
- Major League Gaming app hits Xbox One just in time for its e-sports championships
- How speedrunners are helping Doctors Without Borders and the people of Syria and Iraq
- Trials Fusion’s Tournaments mode is out — and it’s probably not what you were hoping for
- Atari’s new owners come out swinging with licensing, classic remakes, casino games, and an LGBT title
- For game developers looking to avoid violating federal laws, AgeCheq releases a free solution
- Titanfall’s ‘no servers found’ issue affecting players — Microsoft is working on a fix (update)
- How Watch Dogs’ performance on PS4 and Xbox One is helping EA, Activision, and Take-Two
- Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft $10,000 tournament winner accused of cheating
- E3 helps Twitch break viewership record
- ‘Video Games: The Movie’ documentary will launch in theaters on July 18
- Curse gets a million gamers in a week with the open beta launch of Curse Voice (exclusive)
- May 2014 NPD: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Watch Dogs, and Mario Kart 8 fuel industry-wide surge
- Square Enix’s cloud tech will enable games with 17 times the area of Skyrim
Mobile and social
- How Lego Fusion will build on Activision’s and Disney’s success with interactive toys
- We’re cheap: Most mobile gamers will share their personal information for in-app rewards
- Hands on with Amazon’s Fire Phone
- Mind Candy launches Match 3 social mobile game Moshling Rescue
- FMV classic MegaRace’s rebirth brings back its original host along with cheesy videos
- Mobile games will bring in nearly $29B by 2016 by squeezing players for more
- Amazon’s 3D Fire Phone already has a game: Angry Tofu
- TreSensa launches a mobile web game feed to help boost engagement and revenues (exclusive)
- RapidFire’s dynamic in-game ads will help Miniclip finally monetize its online library
- Analysts: New Amazon phone must reinvent shopping on smartphones
- Former Twisted Metal and Warhawk developer’s first iOS game hits this Thursday
- Fruit Ninja developer Halfbrick explains why it’s getting into publishing
- Animoca Brands’ Garfield mobile games hit 30M downloads
- Angry Birds Transformers rolls out later this year
- Facebook unleashes game discovery feature for the iPad
- With 60M members using its brain-training app, Lumosity finally launches on Android
Previews and interviews
- E3 was filled with new things for GameStop to sell to hardcore gamers (interview)
- After 10 years of episodic games, Telltale’s time in the sun has come (interview)
- Abzu’s secrets are about more than a Journey-esque scuba dive
- Ori and the Blind Forest’s producer wants his beautiful Xbox One exclusive to play as good as it looks (interview)
- How Civilization Online brought a Grammy-winning composer back to games (interview)
- EA has brands, but it absolutely needs to create all-new games (interview)
- Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons’ creator canceled his next movie to work on a new game (exclusive)
- Insomniac takes us into the ‘awesomepocalypse’ with Sunset Overdrive (interview)
- Nexon’s new CEO wants creative devs, free-to-play to be fair — and cloners to take a hike (interview)
- ‘Han Solo simulator’ — No Man’s Sky developer says the sci-fi game’s tech came after the idea
- Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain makes the cardboard box better than ever
- Wing Commander creator Chris Roberts shows off Star Citizen and the new way to fund triple-A games (interview)
Reviews