Game developer Brianna Wu is officially running for Congress
Brianna Wu, a game developer who stood up for women facing harassment in the game industry, has official declared that she will run for the U.S....
Vampires? Meh. Focus Home Interactive’s next role-playing game turns you into a werewolf
Focus Home Interactive is cornering the market on dark role-playing games from Europe. Today, the publisher announced a deal with White Wolf Publishing for...
Minecraft Realms gets new maps with class-based brawling and a music light show
Minecraft isn’t all building houses and digging holes. Mojang has announced new content out today for Minecraft Realms, a subscription service for the block-building game...
GamesBeat weekly roundup: We try Nintendo’s Switch, and game sales are up in 2016
Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, Nintendo reveals new Fire Emblem games, the PlayStation 4 wins December, and we look at the...
Nintendo Switch projected to easily outsell the Wii U
Nintendo looks like it might avoid another console flop. Market research and consulting firm DFC forecasts that Nintendo’s upcoming Switch system will reach 40...
Epic Games’ Tim Sweeney to receive lifetime achievement award at GDC
As CEO of Epic Games, Tim Sweeney has been a graphics wizard and a leader of the game industry since the 1990s. And he...
The DeanBeat: 10 predictions for games in 2017
6. The industry will have a chance to build an open platform for the Metaverse, but it will fail to do so Tim Sweeney of...
Talking Tom maker Outfit7 confirms it has been sold to United Luck Consortium for $1 billion
United Luck Consortium has purchased Outfit7, the maker of the wildly popular Talking Tom mobile app, for $1 billion. The buyer is not actually...
Mail.ru Group acquires Warface publishing rights for North America and Europe
Starting next month My.com, the international branch of Mail.Ru Group, will take over publishing and operations in North America and Europe for Warface, an online multiplayer video game...
Tehran will host its first regional Middle East game conference
The Middle East is awakening to the opportunities in the $91 billion game industry. Iran will host its first business-to-business video game industry event,...