Gaming media and brand report: Rockstar Gets (Red Dead) Redemption in October
When you go eight years between release dates, it’s bound to cause some excitement. Coinciding with the long-awaited Red Dead Redemption 2, Rockstar Games...
Just Cause 4: How designers blended crazy tornado and grappling hook physics
Just Cause 4 arrives in stores on December 4 for fans of the third-person action shooter series. Rico Rodriguez returns with his weapons, wingsuit,...
Starship Commander: Arcade hands-on — Voice commands hit the final frontier
Talking to computers aboard a spaceship has been a sci-fi dream for decades. From Captain’s Logs in Star Trek to Cortana in Halo, as...
How Fnatic’s esports victories led it into hardware
Sam Mathews and Anne Mathews founded Fnatic as one of the pioneering esports organizations in 2004. Over 14 years, its teams have competed in...
Two months running, PlayStation dominates first place in gaming industry’s most-seen TV ads ranking
In the last 30 days, Sony-owned PlayStation edged its lead with a third of all industry TV ad impressions, while Nintendo extended its market...
Mojang dev spurs Minecraft players to ask for Oculus Go version
For the most part, Gear VR and Oculus Go share almost the exact same content library, but there’s one glaring omission on Go’s side:...
Jam City lays off a number of game developers
Fresh off the acquisition of two games, casual game publisher Jam City laid off a number of employees on Friday. It isn’t clear yet...
GamesBeat Decides 104: Cheap nylon bags and the FTC
The GamesBeat Decides podcast is back to talk about all of the games and news happening over the last week. That includes a check-in...
The rise of esports as a spectator phenomenon
In October 1972 at Stanford University, the first known video game competition took place. A handpicked list of the best Spacewar! players at the...
Epic delays Fortnite’s account-merging tool to 2019
If you are waiting for the chance to bring together your Fortnite items from the PlayStation 4 version and the other versions together under...