Newzoo: Mobile gaming accounts for the largest part of the 2021 market
Mobile gaming remains one of the largest, most important parts of the games industry, according to data released today by Newzoo. Not only is...
The most anticipated game of 2022 that probably won’t come until 2023
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is one of my favorite games of all time, so I’m looking forward to its sequel....
The Game Awards 2021 hits a record 85M livestream views
The Game Awards 2021 hit a new record of 85 million livestream views for its December 9 broadcast of awards and game announcements. The...
Splinter Cell remake, NFTs, and GOTY voting | GB Decides 227
[iframe src=”https://open.spotify.com/embed/episode/16uQAxXhR6tr8B2a0KAh4u?utm_source=generator” width=”100%” height=”232″ frameBorder=”0″ allowfullscreen=”” allow=”autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture”] GamesBeat Decides tackles the big issues this week. That includes NPD sales for...
Tencent acquires Back 4 Blood and Left 4 Dead dev Turtle Rock Studios
Tencent today announced it has acquired Slamfire Inc., the parent company of game developer Turtle Rock Studios. Turtle Rock is best known as the...
The DeanBeat: Get ready for an awesome GamesBeat Summit: Into the Metaverse 2 event
I’m getting very excited about our awesome GamesBeat Summit: Into the Metaverse 2 event coming in just six weeks. And it feels like the...
Shinichi Okamoto interview — Former PlayStation CTO weighs in on NFT games
Many years ago, before the launch of the PlayStation 3, I went to a dinner event and sat next Shinichi Okamoto, who was then...
The line between online gaming and gambling is fading
Historically, gaming and gambling were considered completely separate activities. Gaming was a mostly free, skill-based activity while gambling was a chance-determined activity for which...
Forever 21 lets players customize virtual fashion stores in Roblox
Forever 21 will let players operate their own custom virtual fashion stores inside Roblox, the metaverse platform that has 49.4 million daily active users....
Sifu makes you feel like a mantis shrimp
When a mantis shrimp punches its prey, it does so with the acceleration of a .22-caliber bullet. It’s a beautiful, deadly mechanism of nature,...