Categories Posted inin Business Fortnite is now available on iOS for everyone, no invite required Posted byby Mike Minotti April 2, 2018 1 min Epic Game’s hit battle royale shooter Fortnite is now available to everyone on iOS. Fortnite entered an invite-only beta for iOS in mid-March. Even...
Categories Posted inin Gameplay BioWare went rogue on EA with its Dragon Age 4 announcement (retraction) Posted byby Jeff Grubb April 2, 2018 5 min Retraction, April 3, 9:51 a.m.: GamesBeat has since learned that EA leadership knew that BioWare GM Casey Hudson was going to the Dragon Age...
Categories Posted inin Technology SpyParty hits Steam Early Access on April 12 after 8 years of development Posted byby Dean Takahashi April 2, 2018 8 min Chris Hecker has been making SpyParty full-time for eight years, and he’s finally hitting a big milestone. While he’s already sold copies on his...
Categories Posted inin Business Appsflyer: Mobile app fraud hit $800 million in Q1, up 30% Posted byby Dean Takahashi April 2, 2018 3 min Mobile tracking and marketing firm AppsFlyer said in a new study that mobile app marketers were exposed to $700 million to $800 million in ad fraud...
Categories Posted inin Business Hearthstone’s design team has an obsession: top hats Posted byby Jason Wilson April 2, 2018 2 min One of my favorite cards in Hearthstone has nothing to do with its ability but rather its art. And it involves a top hat. Cat...
Categories Posted inin Business Keywords acquired 11 game services firms in 2017 as external development grows Posted byby Dean Takahashi April 1, 2018 10 min You may not have heard about Keywords before, but it has become a big player behind the scenes in external game development. Headed by...
Categories Posted inin Gameplay PC Building Simulator is dumb and good Posted byby Jeff Grubb April 1, 2018 2 min The statistics all tell me that I’m not too old for video games, but these days, I sometimes lack an enthusiasm for big games...
Categories Posted inin Business How Jagex turned RuneScape into a ‘living game’ Posted byby Dean Takahashi April 1, 2018 14 min Jagex launched its RuneScape massively multiplayer online role-playing game in 2001, and 17 years later, the free-to-play fantasy game is still going strong. The...
Categories Posted inin Gameplay VR’s killer app is wish fulfillment — for me, that’s Wipeout Posted byby GamesBeat April 1, 2018 4 min Last week, I told the story of how experiencing archery using a virtual reality headset made me a VR believer. Admittedly, I’m a classic early...
Categories Posted inin Development Nier: Automata’s Yoko Taro and Takahisa Taura on sentencing characters and turning 2B into a bug Posted byby Mike Minotti April 1, 2018 7 min Nier: Automata was one of the most-talked about games of 2017. The action role-playing game sold over 2.5 million copies after its February 2017...