Amazon opens a new game engine team location in Austin
When one company sunsets in the game business, another one rises. That’s my interpretation of Amazon’s decision to open a new location for its...
Twitch breaks records in 2016 with average simultaneous viewership reaching 622,000
More people are tuning into Twitch for their livestreaming gaming entertainment than ever before. The Amazon subsidiary averages 622,000 viewers at any one time...
Amazon unveils three livestream-friendly PC games at TwitchCon
There should be no doubt that Amazon is serious about the game business. The company is unveiling three new PC games today that offer...
Bot platform from PullString, maker of Barbie and Call of Duty bots, lets you create characters
The PullString platform for the creation of storytelling bots made its debut today. For the better part of the last decade, the PullString platform...
8 GamesBeat University videos that teach you about the game business
We learned a lot about gaming at our GamesBeat 2016 event a few weeks ago. And we’re still gleaning some of the lessons from...
Why big publishers cannot ‘wait and see’ with VR
Virtual reality isn’t a reliable source of revenues for anyone yet, but industry experts think it’s a bad idea to sit out these rough...
Amazon makes it easy to create voice-based adventure games for Alexa
Amazon has something special in store for developers who support its Alexa voice-command platform. Starting today, the company will provide tools to enable developers...
‘Twitch plays politics’: Gaming service to stream GOP and Dem conventions
Twitch has announced that it plans to livestream the upcoming political conventions, giving people who are already fed up with the current election season and...
The smart way to approach mobile game influencers
GamesBeat recently held two “road show” events on mobile gaming influencers in New York and Seattle (see part one here). At each event, we discussed...
Unity’s David Helgason on game design, VR, and mobile’s future
David Helgason cofounded Unity Technologies in 2003 to make a game engine that could help democratize game development. Over more than a decade, he...