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...
The Witness developer tweets what looks like a jug of urine — the Internet handles it well
We’re just days away from the release of The Witness, a new game from developer Jonathan Blow. But he just tweeted something that has...
HTC Vive gets VR game from ‘Rick and Morty’ creator and The Stanley Parable designer
William Pugh, the co-designer and writer of odd gaming experience The Stanley Parable, is working on a room-scale virtual reality game for the HTC Vive with Justin Roiland, creator of Adult Swim’s Rick and Morty.
Skype now hides your IP address by default
Skype today updated all its apps with a basic, but much-requested, security improvement: Your IP address is now hidden from other Skype users by...
Fire Emblem Fates’ Western localization edits out ‘gay conversion’ and ‘drugging’ scene
Nintendo is cutting off the potential for renewed controversy with its new Fire Emblem game by editing a scene that caused some Japanese players to...