Gjallarhorn has Destiny fans — even lapsed players — excited a month before The Taken King expansion
If you had quit Destiny, developer Bungie is giving you a good reason to come back. Every weekend, a merchant named Xur shows up in...
How an Israeli hurdler and mother of two turned ClicksMob into a $10M business
Chen Levanon used to be a hurdler in college. So the Israeli woman is a natural for running a fast-moving business like ClicksMob. ClicksMob...
Why Opera Mediaworks acquired rewards company Yvolver
It’s all about retention. That’s why Opera Mediaworks announced this week that its had acquired Yvolver. Headed by game veteran Steve Nix, the Dallas-based...
Xbox One backward compatibility already boosting 360 game sales
Backward compatibility with the Xbox 360 is one of the big ways Microsoft is trying to set the Xbox One apart from the competition,...
Here’s why it’s hard to take a game from China to Europe
SHANGHAI — Lots of Chinese game companies are flooding out of China into the West. Patrick Streppel, chief executive of consulting live operations firm IME...
PlayStation Experience is back — but this time it’s in San Francisco
Sony kicked off its inaugural PlayStation Experience convention last year in Las Vegas, and now the company has announced it will bring back the fan event for 2015. But this year, PSX is headed to San Francisco.
GamesBeat weekly roundup: Hearthstone makes millions, and Paris Hilton on mobile
Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, Splatoon is still selling well for Nintendo, Blizzard considers a Warcraft 4, and we discuss why...
The DeanBeat: Casual Connect shows that the game business is a daily Darwinian struggle
The Casual Connect game conference was a big affair this week in San Francisco, and it was a bellwether for the health of the...
Here’s what Final Fantasy VII looks like as a 2D action game
We’re getting that remake of Final Fantasy VII we always wanted, but some fans are disassembling the role-playing classic and putting it back together...
Square Enix needs to give Dragon Quest XI a chance in the West
Dragon Quest XI can bring back old-school Japanese role-playing games in a big way, but Square Enix first needs to give it a chance...