Knights and Bikes is a quirky take on 1980s coming-of-age stories
With Netflix’s Stranger Things back in the pop culture zeitgeist, 1980s nostalgia is surging again. At first, it seems like Knights and Bikes —...
The DeanBeat: The inspiring possibilities and sobering realities of making virtual beings
I had the pleasure of attending the first-ever Virtual Beings Summit in San Francisco on Wednesday, where I met real people talking about making...
Star Trek: Fleet Command generates $100 million in revenue for Scopely
Mobile game publisher Scopely said that its Star Trek: Fleet Command mobile strategy game has become its fastest-growing title, generating more than $100 million...
Virtual Beings grants will fund projects for creating artificial living things
Edward Saatchi, the cofounder of the virtual beings company Fable Studio, announced at a new conference the first Virtual Beings grants. Saatchi made the...
Tencent partners with The Pokémon Company to develop new games
Chinese internet and entertainment giant Tencent announced that it is working with The Pokémon Company to develop games. The release didn’t say anything about...
Vertigo 2 hands-on — This VR shooter has Valve-like potential
Maybe I didn’t give the original Vertigo enough credit. I remember playing it during Christmas break, belly full from a diet of Superhot, thinking VR was...
GamesBeat Decides 120: Fire Emblem or Marvel
The summer is still slow for news on the GamesBeat Decides podcast. But on this week’s episode, we’ve got plenty of coverage of the...
The RetroBeat: Critiquing classic Sonic box art
I bought a refrigerator magnet last week that has the box art for the original Sonic the Hedgehog, the one that came out for...
NetEase invests in Dead by Daylight maker Behaviour Interactive
NetEase Games, the online games division of NetEase, has made a strategic investment in Dead by Daylight game creator Behaviour Interactive. The investment will...
Surrogate raises $2 million for ‘reality’-focused games and video streaming
Surrogate has raised $2 million in funding for reality-focused game development and video streaming technology from some of the same investors that backed Finland’s...