BioWare went rogue on EA with its Dragon Age 4 announcement (retraction)
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...
SpyParty hits Steam Early Access on April 12 after 8 years of development
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...
Appsflyer: Mobile app fraud hit $800 million in Q1, up 30%
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...
Hearthstone’s design team has an obsession: top hats
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...
Keywords acquired 11 game services firms in 2017 as external development grows
You may not have heard about Keywords before, but it has become a big player behind the scenes in external game development. Headed by...
PC Building Simulator is dumb and good
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...
How Jagex turned RuneScape into a ‘living game’
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...
VR’s killer app is wish fulfillment — for me, that’s Wipeout
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...
Nier: Automata’s Yoko Taro and Takahisa Taura on sentencing characters and turning 2B into a bug
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...
Star Trek: Bridge Crew is keeping IBM’s Watson on its duty roster
After hearing swirlings that the IBM Watson-powered voice recognition features for Star Trek: Bridge Crew would be deactivated, we reached out to Ubisoft for confirmation. As a result,...