Why the Canadian government is OK with picking winners and losers among game startups
Canada has hit its stride in video games, with more than 20,400 direct and an additional 16,000 indirect jobs in the game industry. It...
The Good Life sees Deadly Premonition creator herding cats and raising bucks
Hidetaka Suehiro, aka the artist known as Swery, is back and ready to get weird. Today at PAX West, he let the cat out...
GamesBeat Boss interview: China’s Leyou moves from chicken meat to triple-A game publishing
A few years ago, gamers had a good laugh when they learned that a Chinese chicken meat company bought Digital Extremes, the maker of...
Game Boss interview: Why the Philadelphia 76ers dove into esports with Team Dignitas
The NBA gets it. Or at least the Philadelphia 76ers do. The traditional sports basketball team made history in 2016 when it acquired two...
How GameStop used FooVR’s tech to put animated characters in Destiny 2
Virtual reality has reached the “trough of despair,” according to FooVR founder Will Smith. The industry is struggling with disparity in the demand for...
Google’s first ARCore goal: 100 million AR-capable Android phones
Earlier this week, Google announced ARCore, a software-based solution for making more Android devices AR-capable without the need for depth sensors and extra cameras. It...
Microsoft releases new Windows 10 preview with 6 bug fixes ahead of Fall Creators Update
A day after releasing the first build that skips ahead to whatever will succeed the Fall Creators Update, Microsoft today released a new Windows...
Where the Goats Are is about life on a farm as the world ends
From the very start, you can tell something is wrong in Where the Goats Are. A sense of impending doom hangs suspended in the...
You’re not Supercell: Why you should let your mobile games live
Best practices in mobile game development usually means developing and soft launching a multitude of games. Then if those games don’t hit certain minimum...
GamesBeat 2017’s newest speakers: Minority Report adviser, Neverdie, and Accel
GamesBeat 2017 is at San Francisco’s beautiful Fort Mason on October 5 and October 6, and we’re delighted to announce our next three speakers: John...