Oculus Quest back-ordered until February
New orders of the Oculus Quest headset ordered on Facebook’s Oculus website aren’t expected to ship until mid-February in the United Sates. Facebook’s standalone...
2019 was the year things got weird for video games
The video games industry is odd. This is a business where the leading companies regularly reset their market share every five-to-seven years. But over...
2019 game industry ad spend: a quieter year
At iSpot.tv, we found that the game industry spent an estimated $319.6 million on television ads in 2019 (January 1 through December 8), a...
Early VR hit Vertigo is getting a remaster, with improvements from its sequel
Vertigo is a popular VR game from 2016, and Zulubo Productions’ Zach Tsiakalis-Brown said it will get a remaster and release with updates and...
GamesBeat Decides 134: What we want from PlayStation 5 and Xbox in 2020
In 2020, we’re getting both the PlayStation 5 and the new Xbox. And with that next-generation of hardware on the horizon, we’re looking forward...
Ubisoft uses AI to teach a car to drive itself in a racing game
Reinforcement learning, an AI training technique that employs rewards to drive software policies toward goals, has been applied successfully to domains from industrial robotics...
The DeanBeat: My most anticipated games of 2020
The recent airing of The Game Awards showed us some big games that are coming out in 2020, so we can make our own...
The RetroBeat: 2019’s biggest retro gaming moments
As a year comes to a close, I once again look back instead of forward … and not even just to the last year....
What’s next for consumer AR in 2020
True augmented reality hasn’t found an easy path to consumer adoption. In spite of general understanding of how AR hardware and software should theoretically...
GamesBeat Rewind: 2019’s biggest stories
We’re heading toward a new year, and it’s sure to be a huge one thanks to the launches of the Xbox Series X and...