GamesBeat University talks will be livestreamed at GamesBeat 2016
Gordon Bellamy, visiting scholar at the University of Southern California, has kindly agreed to emcee our GamesBeat University talks at GamesBeat 2016. Bellamy, who did...
GungHo looks beyond Puzzles & Dragons — to Japan’s gaming iconoclast
GungHo Online Entertainment is in an interesting phase of its business. The game studio is no longer part of Softbank, the giant Japanese telecom company....
How Illidan got his groove (and life) back for World of Warcraft: Legion
The World of Warcraft needs a hero, even if its maybe-crazy Night Elf with glowing green eyes. On August 30, Blizzard releases Legion, the sixth expansion...
Free DLC for indie games: financial suicide — or smart marketing?
In the dawn of the success of CD Projekt Red’s The Witcher 3 and its welcomed, arguably innovative, or perhaps retro attitude toward free...
China’s Giant leads consortium to buy Playtika for $4.4 billion
A consortium of Chinese companies led by Giant has agreed to pay $4.4 billion for Playtika, the social casino game company in Herzliya, Israel,...
3 ways Pokémon Go can make players happy with push notifications
Pokémon Go launched in the U.S. on July 17, and it has already become a cultural phenomenon. Developed by Niantic, it’s now the most-downloaded...
GamesBeat 2016: Our updated agenda with 105 speakers
We hope you can make it to our GamesBeat 2016 conference at the beautiful Terranea resort in Rancho Palos Verdes in Los Angeles. The...
Cortana arrives on Xbox One along with background music, enhanced language settings
Microsoft today announced the release of the Xbox Summer Update for the Xbox One and the Xbox app. The release finally brings Microsoft’s Cortana...
Why we’ll soon see Pokémon-free zones
Back in 2006, I remember wondering how many people were literally walking to their doom at any given time because their eyes were glued...
GamesBeat 2016 explores how to take games between Asia and the West
China has become the biggest gaming market, surpassing the U.S. quite easily in the past couple of years. But only a handful of companies...