StarCraft II: Blizzard explains why Legacy of the Void isn’t the end of the series
Many StarCraft II players are still busy getting through Legacy of the Void. But developer Blizzard Entertainment is already looking toward the future. StarCraft...
Today’s tiny World of Warcraft news: Gnome hunters
World of Warcraft creative director Alex Afrasiabi brought gnome lovers to their tiny little knees today with an announcement via Twitter: They could finally...
Unity has democratized game development, but CEO John Riccitiello worries about too much VR hype
Unity Technologies has armed more than 2 million developers with the tools to make video games. And those developers have shown a lot of...
Epic’s Tim Sweeney believes virtual reality will evolve more like console games than mobile
It seems like we just can’t get enough of Tim Sweeney, chief executive of Epic Games. Sweeney has been a video game graphics guru...
Bethesda says it shipped $750M and 12M copies for Fallout 4’s launch
Bethesda Softworks said that it shipped 12 million copies, or $750 million worth of postapocalypse role-playing game Fallout 4 to retailers for its launch...
The DeanBeat: In the VR industry, a thousand startups will bloom. Most won’t make it
We’re all trying to get a handle on virtual reality, and its cousin, augmented reality. Will it be a bust? Or will the two...
Gambling on virtual reality: the online casinos of the future
Virtual reality is a new medium, which is why it inspires as much mistrust as it does awe. Some view it as the stuff...
New Xbox One backward compatibility tutorial takes a cheeky swipe at Sony
Backward compatibility on Xbox One is a one-step process. Microsoft’s U.K. Xbox team has crafted a cheeky tutorial for Xbox One’s new backward compatibility...
October 2015 NPD: Halo 5 leads gaming to $805M month
American consumers spent $805.9 million on new game-related software and hardware at retailers last month, according to industry-tracking firm The NPD Group. That was up 2 percent compared to $788.7 million in October 2014. Hardware and software were down, but it was accessories that ensured the industry saw what little growth it did.
Xbox One outsold PlayStation 4 in October thanks to Halo
Microsoft hasn’t had many wins this year when going head-to-head with Sony, but its biggest franchise still has the power to help it finish the fight. Xbox One outsold the PlayStation 4 in October according to NPD data that Microsoft shared with GamesBeat.