Overwatch developers’ guide: How to win without shooting
Mercer: Another interesting example: Lucio has an ability that speeds up his team around him. In Nimbani, there’s a main street that leads up...
With its Vive launch under way, HTC builds the case for VR in your living room
The HTC Vive debuted in the first week of April, bringing high-end virtual reality on the PC to consumers. HTC says it managed to...
E3 Live is a new public event that lets fans try unreleased video games
You don’t need to be a journalist or industry person to experience a little E3 magic this year. The Entertainment Software Association, which puts...
Facebook buys VR audio company Two Big Ears, debuts ‘Facebook 360 Spatial Workstation’
Today Facebook announced it’s acquired Two Big Ears, a spatial audio technology company, for an undisclosed sum. Now part of Facebook, Two Big Ears’ Spatial...
Nexon’s Owen Mahoney: Artistry is key to solving mobile gaming’s malaise
At his core, Owen Mahoney is a business guy. But the chief executive of Asian gaming giant Nexon doesn’t talk like one. At our...
Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End sells 2.7 million copies in one week, beats a PlayStation 4 record
Nathan Drake doesn’t need to discover a lost city or an ancient treasure to make a lot of money. He just needs to star...
Our inspirational GamesBeat Summit ‘lightning round’ talks on lessons for game developers (video)
What happens when you give a really smart person just five minutes to talk in front of an important audience? We found out at...
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney still opposes Microsoft’s Universal Windows Platform (video)
Editor’s note: We previously published a transcript of our fireside chat with Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney. Now we’re publishing the video below. Sweeney’s...
Hitman Go: VR Edition is Square Enix experimenting with virtual reality
New games keep coming out for virtual reality, and sometimes those releases are actually quite old. Hitman Go: VR Edition is one of the latest...
How FanDuel grew from humble Scottish startup into an American fantasy sports giant
Legal wrangles The big issue is, of course, FanDuel’s legal and legislative predicament in the States. “I think what we’re seeing in the U.S. is...