Xbox One chainsaws all comers as consoles crush mobile game ad spending in October
Machine Zone has a convoy, but the consoles have the big numbers GamesBeat has partnered with iSpot.tv, which measures TV advertising in real-time, to...
$69 Pocket Chip DIY computer has 3D acceleration to run Quake III
The $69 Pocket C.H.I.P. computer has gotten a software update that enables 3D acceleration on the ARM-based device. Now it can run games like Quake...
The 6 stages of a free-to-play social gamer
Social-game developers have a tough challenge trying to keep people coming back to their title for as long as possible, but no one strategy is...
The season of assassination tourism comes to a close with final Hitman episode
The makers of Hitman at Danish developer IO Interactive pioneered a new model for releasing a major video game with six episodes released over...
Naughty Dog storyteller brought deeper narrative to Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare has a better story than it has had for some time. And one of the reasons is that Activision’s...
Microsoft now lets you easily use Kinect as a webcam
Microsoft today announced a few updates related to its Kinect sensor. For one thing, the company said that it has followed through on its...
BlizzCon: Everything Blizzard announced today
BlizzCon is underway in Anaheim, California, and publisher Blizzard Entertainment used its annual massive fan event to make several big announcements. But don’t go...
World of Warcraft: Legion’s future patches bring flying, invasions, and more bosses
Blizzard has plenty of updates coming to World of Warcraft. The publisher detailed upcoming patches coming to Legion, the latest (and according to GamesBeat, the best)...
Google’s DeepMind A.I. takes on something even more complicated than chess or go: StarCraft II
Google and Blizzard are opening up StarCraft II to anyone who wants to teach artificial intelligence systems how to conduct warfare, because apparently I’m...
Hearthstone’s tri-class cards will change the card game forever
Players expected Blizzard to announce a new expansion for its digital-card-game-market leader Hearthstone. They didn’t think it would introduce a new card type that completely...