Angry Birds maker Rovio teases Shakira partnership
Shakira is going to be part of Rovio’s Angry Birds family. That’s not so easy to do, as her hips don’t lie, and the Angry Birds...
Star Wars vs. Fallout: Here’s how PlayStation and Xbox are battling with bundles this holiday
Microsoft just finished its week of announcing a new Xbox One bundle each day, and it looks like it has a strong arsenal to...
Hitbox gets exclusive streaming rights to Counter-Strike tournament
Twitch’s competitor got a nice exclusive. Live-streaming site Hitbox revealed today that it will have sole broadcasting rights for a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive tournament, The World Championships 2015.
Plays.tv is now World of Tanks’ official ‘video-capture solution’
Gaming-related video is hugely popular on the Web, and now one of the competitors in that space is making a deal to grow its...
GamesBeat 2015 puts the spotlight on finding whales in free-to-play games
Prior to his onstage appearance at GamesBeat 2015, Ninja Metrics CEO Dr. Dmitri Williams spoke with us about the mobile game's industry to "whale-fish," and how our relationship with our heaviest users could be improved.
Microsoft buys Havok from Intel, promises to keep licensing physics tech
Microsoft now owns one of gaming’s most popular middleware tools. The Xbox company announced this morning that it has acquired Havok, the technology company best...
Microsoft’s holiday ace card is a Fallout 4 Xbox One bundle
Microsoft’s Xbox One outsold the PlayStation 4 last November and December, and the company is trying to put itself in a position to repeat...
GamesBeat weekly roundup: Super Mario Maker’s a hit, and inside the canceled South Park game
Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, Microsoft revealed a series of holiday bundles for the Xbox One, and we’ve been busy reviewing...
Mattel’s Google Cardboard-powered View-Master is now on sale
Mattel and Google’s project to make virtual reality kid-friendly has arrived. It’s called the View-Master. Obviously, Mattel is drawing on the brand power of the stereoscopic...
Windows 10 adoption passes Windows 8.1 on Steam
More than one in every five gamers on Steam is already using Windows 10. Valve updated its Hardware & Software Survey today for September 2015,...