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Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, we check out the new Xbox One S, Pokémon Go gets a big update, and we look at Titanfall 2’s single-player campaign. We also made a music playlist for Spotify’s new Gaming channel, so please check that out!
Have a great weekend!
Pieces of flair and opinions
- The DeanBeat: Where Pokémon Go should go next
- Spotify intoduces a new gaming portal, featuring a playlist that GamesBeat made
- Hearthstone’s One Night in Karazhan guide: How to beat the prologue and The Parlor
- Veterans show how to do a game publishing deal
- Before Pokémon Go, Pikachu was always a star under The Pokémon Company
- Creativity: What’s diversity got to do with it?
- No Man’s Sky’s funky fauna: Unicorn dogs, hissing crabs, and space dinos
- How Warner Bros. is making its game business digitally powered
- VR VCs examine the gap between expectations and reality
- Wevr’s Neville Spiteri tells devs how to choose the right VR platform
- Why one of Hearthstone’s new cards has made fans furious
- Helpful lessons developers can learn from their hardcore superfans
- PlayStation VR co-creator says the ‘year of VR’ still holds surprises for us
- How EA is moving to turn all players into competitive gamers
- Hundreds of universities want to teach VR development, but few have the equipment
- Lionsgate’s Peter Levin on the convergence of VR games and entertainment
- AMD’s Roy Taylor on how VR will change entertainment
News
- Nordic Games brings back the THQ name, rebrands as THQ Nordic
- Xbox One outsold PlayStation 4 in July in the U.S.
- Nvidia CEO credits smooth Pascal launch for strong second-quarter profits
- GoldenEye 64’s fan-driven PC remake is getting a big update
- Nvidia’s $1.43 billion in revenue beats expectations as Pascal graphics chips launch
- Hearthstone’s One Night in Karazhan adventure is live now
- Microsoft buys game livestreaming startup Beam to integrate with Xbox
- Pokémon Sun and Moon trailer reveals new forms for classic monsters like Raichu
- Call of Duty World League’s second season climaxes with more teams, huge upsets
- Open Gaming Alliance and Unity team up to create women’s speaker bureau
- Master of Orion reboot launches August 25
- Pokémon Go down for some: Map shows no PokéStops or gyms
- The Pokémon Company sees no need for a QuakeCon-style fan convention
- ‘Detective Pikachu’ movie was in the works long before Pokémon Go
- Eisenhorn: Xenos brings Warhammer adventure to PC and iOS
- Overwatch’s next animated short will debut on August 18
- Gwent: The Witcher card Game’s closed beta is delayed to October
- Sony announces PlayStation Meeting event for September 7 following PS4 Neo rumors
- Pac-Man Championship Edition 2 will munch up all your pellets next month
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive team boosts Latin America esports group’s roster
- AMD examines if your PC gaming rig can be energy efficient
- PlayStation 4 Neo getting big reveal next month, according to rumor
- Blizzard may start ‘taking action’ against Overwatch players exploiting Lucio Ball bug
Mobile and social
- Bossa Studios raises $1.35 million to boost online game Worlds Adrift
- Firefly Games raises $10 million to make Hollywood-based mobile games
- Halo co-creator turns Renegade with first-person shooter for iOS
- TabTale crosses a billion downloads for kids mobile games and apps
- The accidental history of Niantic’s Pokémon Go, as told by John Hanke
- Former Sega chief Tom Kalinske wants someone to create Sonic Go
- How Lumines creator Tetsuya Mizuguchi is bringing his beloved franchise to mobile
- Pokémon Go developer tests big changes to tracking with ‘Nearby’ and ‘Sightings’
- AppsFlyer ranks mobile ad networks by retention and downloads
- Pokémon Go gets update with bug fixes and tracker tweaks: Here’s what’s different
- Pokémon Go master completes his global quest to ‘catch ’em all’ — with help from Expedia
- Sensor Tower: Pokémon Go made $200 million in its first month
- What Pokémon Go can teach the mobile game industry
- Iran ban on Nidoran: Pokémon Go not permitted due to ‘security concerns’
Previews, reviews, and interviews
- Titanfall 2’s single-player campaign is more Half-Life than Call of Duty
- No Man’s Sky turned into No Man’s Sleep for me
- AMD’s Radeon RX 460 punches above its weight
- Xbox One S is the right console for 2016’s messy 4K-television market
- How Hearthstone’s tech team tackles an online game for PC and mobile