How Nier: Automata took inspiration from a Coca-Cola campaign
Nier: Automata is an action role-playing game starring angsty and sexy robots. Coca-Cola is a delicious, carbonated beverage. You wouldn’t think that the game...
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is the most-downloaded iOS app in 48 countries
The battle royale genre took over mobile last week with the launch of Fortnite, but now it’s PlayerUnkonwn’s Battlegrounds turn to shine. Tencent Games’...
Sea of Thieves had 1 million players over its first 2 days
Microsoft’s new big Xbox game is out, and it is going through some launch pains — and is seeing fleets of sailors. Sea of...
AR games live and die by location
Augmented reality gaming is in its infancy. It wasn’t until July 2016 and Pokémon Go‘s release that most people had even experienced it. Fast-forward...
February 2018’s top 10 Minecraft Marketplace creations: city life and teens
February saw a huge jump in downloads in the Minecraft Marketplace. Players on PC, mobile, and Xbox consoles downloaded 372,509 pieces of content from...
Atari biopic producers use cryptocurrency to fund Nolan Bushnell tale
Nolan Bushnell, cofounder of Atari, is the godfather of the video game industry, and the producers at media company Vision Tree are making a...
GamesBeat Decides 74: No robot mayors
Almost everyone on the GamesBeat team is at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco this week, and we’re going to have some audio...
Epic Games’ Tim Sweeney on creating believable digital humans
You’ll see creases and details that you’ve never seen in a digital character that hasn’t been held and sculpted over months and months for...
Epic Games shows off amazing real-time digital human with Siren demo
Epic Games, CubicMotion, 3Lateral, Tencent, and Vicon took a big step toward creating believable digital humans today with the debut of Siren, a demo of...
Epic Games demos the digital version of actor Andy Serkis
Epic Games and 3Lateral showed off a digital version of actor Andy Serkis, who starred in The Lord of the Rings and Planet of...