Call of Duty: Black Ops III is getting modding and map-making tools on PC
The Call of Duty community will have the capability to help the next game in the series grow in ways the developer never predicted....
Piracy is a big problem for premium iPhone and iPad games — much more than you realize
For example, 60 percent of Monument Valley installs on iPhone and iPad were not paid for. I’m not a newcomer to the game business, so I know that most of those pirated downloads wouldn’t translate to sales, if somehow we could stop piracy.
Tencent, Sony, Microsoft, and EA show that the multiplatform strategy — console, PC, and mobile — is golden in 2015
The industry is making plenty of money these days. Games market research group Newzoo today released its list of the top 25 public game...
Google is cutting the cost of its Project Tango depth-sensing tablets in half
Despite Project Tango’s cloudy future, Google continues to push the 3D depth-sensing tech to developers. The latest pitch is a 50 percent discount off its pricey $512 tablet development kit. The deal, effective...
Why Saudi Arabia’s dolphins and whales matter to the gaming industry
I’m increasingly asked these days for the nitty-gritty details on this whale den we call Saudi Arabia. As I approach a talk in Dubai...
Fostering creativity in yourself and in your team
GamesBeat: Assumptive thinking leads to that feeling of, it’s the same-old same-old. We see that in the industry now. We have mobile games that...
Don’t be afraid to fail now in order to succeed later at making virtual reality games
Jason Rubin was skeptical about the new Oculus virtual reality head-mounted display before he even threw on a pair for the first time nearly...
Warner Bros. offers full refund on still-broken Batman: Arkham Knight PC until end of year
Warner Bros. re-released one of this year’s biggest action games on PC last week, but Batman: Arkham Knight is still broken for many gamers. Now...
AMD says Radeon Software Crimson will be your PC’s graphics operating system
Advanced Micro Devices formed a stand-alone graphics chip division, Radeon Technologies Group, to better focus on all things graphics. Now it is launching new...
Nexon wins over Western developers by pitching gaming as an art form
GamesBeat: Give us a little hint of what we might see over the next two or three years as you guys focus back on...