GamesBeat editor Jeff Grubb’s top 20 games of 2019
We’ve had a lot of really good years in gaming recently, but 2019 is at the top of the list for me. I get...
Facebook Gaming releases Pokémon Tower Battle and Pokémon Medallion Battle as instant games
Facebook Gaming is announcing that it is releasing two new games, Pokémon Tower Battle and Pokémon Medallion Battle, on its Instant Games platform. This...
Amplifying New Voices diversity training program finds permanent home with AIAS Foundation
Amplifying New Voices, a program that trains diverse game industry people to be good speakers, has found a permanent home with the Academy of...
Tencent details how its MOBA-playing AI system beats 99.81% of human opponents
In August, Tencent announced it had developed an AI system capable of defeating teams of pros in a five-on-five match in Honor of Kings...
GamesBeat Rewind 2019: The year’s biggest trends … and where they’re heading in 2020
The game industry is in a huge period of flux, but 2019 only set the stage for enormous paradigm shifts that the coming year...
Stern Pinball unveils Stranger Things pinball machine
Stern Pinball, which has turned its pinball machine business into a global lifestyle brand, is announcing that it has created a Stranger Things pinball...
Unity gets toolkit for common AR/VR interactions
The Unity game engine released a preview for “XR Interaction Toolkit,” which handles some core interactions for VR and AR. Like most optional Unity...
Oculus Quest gets dynamic fixed foveated rendering
The Oculus Quest now has a Dynamic Fixed Foveated Rendering (FFR) feature, which developers can use instead of manually setting the FFR level. Fixed...
‘Snow Crash’ inspired the metaverse, and now it’s becoming an HBO show
A HBO series based on Snow Crash, the 1992 science fiction novel which coined the term “metaverse,” is in production. Snow Crash‘s author is...
Facebook: Mobile gaming is going tribal and global
Facebook recently produced a report on game marketing that represented its latest effort to understand the evolution of both gaming and gamers. The report...