Star Wars: Battlefront’s Death Star trailer shows the joys of playing as R2-D2 and Chewbacca
Everyone knows that the real hero in that galaxy far, far away is a stout droid with the designation R2-D2. Now, Electronic Arts is...
Watch Pokémon Generations roam through 20 years of history on YouTube
The Pokémon Company has launched the first two videos in the new Pokémon Generations series of short cartoons on YouTube. It’s part of a celebration...
GamesBeat weekly roundup: Pokémon Go gets buddies, and Warcraft’s loremaster retires
Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, we look at an action role-playing game about burning books, Star Trek Online lets players 3D-print...
Rigged mobile game lets you gerrymander political districts to steal elections
Game publisher Hitcents and media site Fusion have launched Rigged, a mobile game about gerrymandering political districts in order to steal elections. If anything, the...
Opt-in advertisements are proving to be popular in virtual reality
In virtual reality apps, opt-in video ads work much better than pre-roll ads, according to a report by VR ad network Immersv. Emeryville-based Immersv...
The DeanBeat: The intersection of sci-fi, video games, and real-world tech
Video game designer Will Wright was fond of saying that a dog-eared copy of Neal Stephenson’s 1992 novel Snow Crash was the business plan...
LottoInteractive turns the lottery into a match-3 game with Star Match
LottoInteractive wants to bring the lottery to new audiences by changing it into a game. The Los Angeles company is announcing today it has...
Hearthstone’s Summer Championships: How journalism and ultimate Frisbee drove two players
Blizzard’s third and final season of competitive Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft for 2016 is coming to a close this month. A mixture of new...
Wargaming’s Hybrid Wars launches September 29 (update)
Wargaming’s WG Labs division has announced it will release Hybrid Wars on Steam and GOG on September 29. From the Extreme Developers studio, this top-down shooter has...
PlayStation 4’s 4.00 update gives Sony’s flagship console a user-friendly makeover
The PlayStation 4 has always had a snappy interface, but it was also unorganized and unintuitive. This changes with the console’s latest system patch. Sony...