The DeanBeat: How Warner Bros. rescued Avalanche Studios after Disney buried it
Disney and Warner Bros. have taken very different strategies in video games, and Avalanche Software, the decades-old Salt Lake City development studio, was caught...
Squad Wars: Death Division is the latest attempt to make multiplayer shooters work on mobile
In Asia, first-person shooter games are very different from the West, where Call of Duty and Battlefield rule. In China, Crossfire is the big...
Overwatch blitzes past 25 million players on PS4, Xbox One, and PC
The world could always use more heroes … 25 million of them, to be exact. Blizzard announced today that its team-based Overwatch shooter has...
Xbox revenues down 3%, but digital transactions reach $1 billion
Microsoft’s gaming division isn’t making as much money as the price of an Xbox One continues to fall, but the company is seeing growth...
Microsoft reports $26.1 billion in Q2 2017 revenue: Azure up 93%, but Phone down 81% and Surface down 2%
Microsoft today reported earnings for its second fiscal quarter of 2017, including revenue of $26.1 billion, net income of $6.5 billion, and earnings per...
Nintendo ad shows off Switch’s killer feature: It works in the bathroom
When you gotta go, you gotta go. But now, you can take Mario Kart with you. Nintendo released a new 30-second TV spot for...
Classic games Myst and Riven to debut on Android
Myst was one the first great CD-ROM games when it came out in 1993, and its sequel, Riven, was also visually stunning when it...
Mass Effect: Andromeda’s marketing campaign amps up with a trailer that teases the story
The next Mass Effect is coming out in less than a month, and Electronic Arts is finally showing fans more about what will happen in...
How Grand Theft Auto leader Leslie Benzies conceived Everywhere after rocky Rockstar departure
Leslie Benzies was one of the leads on Grand Theft Auto V and one of the custodians of the Grand Theft Auto franchise for...
Grand Theft Auto V veteran Leslie Benzies forms studio to make open-world game Everywhere
Confirming leaks, Grand Theft Auto veteran Leslie Benzies told GamesBeat he has formed a new studio in Edinburgh, Scotland, and Los Angeles to build...