GamesBeat weekly roundup: Our first look at Destiny 2 and Palmer Lucky leaves Facebook
Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, we reviewed Persona 5, the classic Planescape: Torment is getting a remaster, and we looked back...
The DeanBeat: Why I do what I do
I enjoy writing about the game industry, and sometimes I write 10 stories in a day. This is actually the 13,986th story that I...
Ex-Samsung exec Mihai Pohontu takes CEO job at Romania’s Amber game studio
In four year’s, Romanian game development services firm Amber has grown to 280 employees. And today, the Bucharest company is naming Romanian native Mihai...
Game pioneer Brenda Romero receives special award from U.K.’s Oscars
Brenda Romero has worked on 47 games in a game career that has spanned more than 36 years, and she’s getting recognition for that...
Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds tops King of the Kill as Steam’s latest flavor of the month
The PC gaming community on Steam often moves from one game to another as a group, and where that used to mean survival games...
Crowfall shows how its players will create their own lands and towns
It turns out creating your own online kingdom can be as easy as dragging and dropping some blocks ArtCraft Entertainment released a new video...
Oculus VR founder Palmer Luckey leaves Facebook
Palmer Luckey, who founded Oculus Rift and who many credit with reviving the virtual reality industry, has left Oculus VR and Facebook, as UploadVR reports. Facebook and Luckey are not sharing the details of the split, but it comes after months of silence from what the social network once positioned as the father of VR.
Thimbleweed Park point-and-click adventure game launches for Xbox One and PC
If you ever loved Maniac Mansion of the Secret of Monkey Island, this one’s for you. Thimbleweed Park is out today for Xbox One,...
Tech pioneer Tony Parisi wants VR to change the world
Tony Parisi helped pioneer virtual reality when he worked on the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML), a tool for creating 3D environments on the web,...
Space Ape Games’ Fastlane: Road to Revenge will star 20 YouTube influencers
Space Ape Games has a novel tactic for getting more publicity for its Fastlane: Road to Revenge mobile game. The London-based company announced today...