Nexon acquires rights for Elsword Mobile game in Japan from China’s Kunlun
Nexon said that it has acquired publishing rights for Kunlun’s Elsword Mobile game in Japan. Tokyo-based Nexon said it will announce the launch date...
Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire reaches crowdfunding goal on Fig in less than 24 hours
That didn’t take long. Obsidian’s Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire has already passed its $1.1 million crowdfunding goal on Fig, the Kickstarter competitor that can...
GamesBeat weekly roundup: Square Enix’s Marvel deal, and GTA vet’s new studio
Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, we play Resident Evil VII (which or may not be scary, depending on which of our staff...
Ghost Recon Wildlands is a huge open world where hostiles are everywhere
Ghost Recon Wildlands has incredible environments where you can climb to a mountaintop and then visit everything that you can see from that mountain....
The DeanBeat: How Warner Bros. rescued Avalanche Studios after Disney buried it
Disney and Warner Bros. have taken very different strategies in video games, and Avalanche Software, the decades-old Salt Lake City development studio, was caught...
Squad Wars: Death Division is the latest attempt to make multiplayer shooters work on mobile
In Asia, first-person shooter games are very different from the West, where Call of Duty and Battlefield rule. In China, Crossfire is the big...
Overwatch blitzes past 25 million players on PS4, Xbox One, and PC
The world could always use more heroes … 25 million of them, to be exact. Blizzard announced today that its team-based Overwatch shooter has...
How Grand Theft Auto leader Leslie Benzies conceived Everywhere after rocky Rockstar departure
Leslie Benzies was one of the leads on Grand Theft Auto V and one of the custodians of the Grand Theft Auto franchise for...
Grand Theft Auto V veteran Leslie Benzies forms studio to make open-world game Everywhere
Confirming leaks, Grand Theft Auto veteran Leslie Benzies told GamesBeat he has formed a new studio in Edinburgh, Scotland, and Los Angeles to build...
Dauntless’s Owlbear-like Shrike is an homage to a classic D&D beast (update)
I was checking out Dauntless, the upcoming free-to-play online action-role-playing game from Phoenix Labs. It’s a co-op game that should hit later this year. Houston is one of the studio’s three cofounders, and Clifford runs marketing efforts for the Vancouver-based company.