Categories Posted inin Business My.Games invests $1.5 million in Pizza Club Games mobile studio Posted byby Dean Takahashi February 9, 2021 2 min My.Games has invested $1.5 million in San Francisco-based mobile game studio Pizza Club Games. It’s the second time in a week that a foreign... Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay Redhill Games will soon launch open beta for Nine to Five team shooter Posted byby Dean Takahashi February 9, 2021 2 min Redhill Games will soon launch an open beta test for its Nine to Five free-to-play team shooter on Steam. The beta test will mark... Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay CD Projekt Red hacked, releases ransom note Posted byby Mike Minotti February 9, 2021 1 min CD Projekt Red released a statement on Twitter today noting that the company has been the victim of a cyberattack. The party responsible for... Continue Reading 1 min
Categories Posted inin Business Electronic Arts acquires Glu Mobile for $2.4 billion Posted byby Jeff Grubb February 8, 2021 1 min Electronic Arts is getting into the Kim Kardashian business. At least, that is the case if its deal to grab mobile gaming behemoth Glu... Continue Reading 1 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay GamesBeat Decides: The best (and worst) Mass Effect squadmates Posted byby Mike Minotti February 8, 2021 1 min With the Mass Effect trilogy coming together in a new remastered package on May 14, we thought that it would be fun to go... Continue Reading 1 min
Categories Posted inin Business Cocos adds 3D to its open source 2D game engine with Cocos Creator 3.0 Posted byby Dean Takahashi February 8, 2021 3 min Cocos has had great success with PC and mobile games with its 2D game engine. Now it is taking the open-source software to the... Continue Reading 3 min
Categories Posted inin Business Homa Games raises $15 million to make hypercasual mobile games Posted byby Dean Takahashi February 8, 2021 3 min France’s Homa Games has raised $15 million to enhance its factory for building hypercasual mobile games. The seed round is a big one for... Continue Reading 3 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay Component shortages hit PS5, will Battlefield go free-to-play, and more | GB Decides 182 Posted byby Jeff Grubb February 6, 2021 1 min The gaming industry dropped a load of financial news over the last week. That has left the GamesBeat Decides crew to talk about PlayStation... Continue Reading 1 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay The RetroBeat — Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Master is a Genesis treasure I missed Posted byby Mike Minotti February 5, 2021 2 min I loved my Sega Genesis as a kid, but now that I spend a lot of my adult life looking into retro games, I’m... Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business The DeanBeat: Measuring the froth of the game industry Posted byby Dean Takahashi February 5, 2021 8 min Merger mania has come to games, and a big window is open for public offerings in the stock market. That translates to a historic... Continue Reading 8 min