Google changes Android permissions to make game sign-ups easier
[Updated with additional news: 10:44 am Jan. 25] Google has changed the way the Android operating system handles permissions for game players so that...
Here’s some of The Division’s gameplay in a leaked video
We’ve had some time with The Division, and we think it has a lot of potential. But why don’t you check it out for...
Survios demos two-player cooperative VR shooter Raw Data
Survios is demonstrating a two-player cooperative virtual reality first-person shooter dubbed Raw Data. The demo is one of the first to show that VR...
Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam’s two flavors jell into a sloppy sandwich
Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam could have used a pair of scissors. It’s an almost magical, Mario-meets-Mario adventure, and it had the potential to...
USC’s game-design graduate program now has more women than men
Men make up 80 percent of the people working on games today, but women may represent a majority of the next wave of highly...
Lost in Harmony’s music tells an ambitious, emotional tale that’s just a bit flat
When the creator of Valiant Hearts: The Great War sets out to touch people’s hearts with a rhythm game, you hope for good things....
GamesBeat weekly roundup: Minecraft gets educational, and Exploding Kittens hits mobile
Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, a prototype for a different take on Star Wars: Battlefront III leaks, we see what Metal...
The DeanBeat: My rank is 3,440,250 in Call of Duty: Black Ops III multiplayer
I had the rare pleasure of hitting the highest level in Call of Duty: Black Ops III multiplayer a week ago. This is the earliest...
GetSocial raises $2.5M to boost engagement in mobile games
GetSocial raised $2.5 million to expand its social networking platform for marketing and monetizing mobile games. The Amsterdam-based has built a backend platform for amplifying...
Elite: Dangerous doesn’t officially support Oculus Rift, focuses on SteamVR instead
Developers are taking sides in the battle for virtual reality dominance. Frontier Developments, the studio behind the acclaimed space exploration game Elite: Dangerous, tells Eurogamer that...