What to expect from virtual reality in 2016
Virtual reality is finally here and it’s better than we imagined. Large technology companies like Oculus, Facebook, Samsung, HTC, Valve, Sony, and (of course)...
PlayStation 4 & Xbox One adopting Nintendo’s handheld update strategy makes sense to analysts
Your Xbox One is obsolete. Your PlayStation 4 is junk. But if these consoles are starting to feel old, Microsoft and Sony may step...
Here’s why King gave away its 2D mobile game engine Defold
‘Tis the season of giving for game engines. King Digital Entertainment acquired the Defold game engine back in 2014 to make two-dimensional mobile titles....
How Diablo found inspiration in hockey, Star Wars, and X-Com
This year, the original Diablo turns 20 years old, and its creator talked about the gothic game’s creation during a talk at the Game...
Watch 25,000 units brawl on one battlefield in Ashes of the Singularity
Here’s one of the reasons why the upcoming real-time strategy (RTS) game Ashes of the Singularity requires a PC with a quad-core processor: It...
Watch a PC running AMD and Nvidia graphics cards at the same time
Wondering what it looks like when AMD and Nvidia video cards are sitting in the same computer, running a program together? Here’s what it...
GamesBeat weekly roundup: GDC 2016 madness
We’ve had a busy time here at GamesBeat! We’ve been covering the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco all week, and you can find...
Nintendo’s Miitomo for iOS tops Japan’s App Store in fewer than two days
For years, industry watchers speculated that Nintendo could rule mobile if it would only make games for smartphones and tablets. And based on how...
Industrial Light & Magic explains why punching R2-D2 is crucial to VR
Creating a virtual reality experience isn’t like making other video games because you have to consider so many other details … like the sound R2-D2...
The DeanBeat: GDC 2016’s blockbuster moments, VR demos, and indie victories
I spent the past week fully immersed in the 30th annual Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Along with at least 26,000 attendees, I...