Mobile beats consoles for August TV ad spend
GamesBeat has partnered with iSpot.tv, which measures TV advertising in real time, to bring you a monthly report on how gaming brands are spending...
Raptr’s Plays.tv makes it easy to make highlight videos from League of Legends matches
Dennis Fong wishes he were an esports player again, with the huge crowds and big prizes that professional gamers are getting these days. But...
Street Fighter pro joins Twitch to boost its presence in fighting games and Taiwan
Twitch is a site about personalities and community. And one of the biggest personalities in fighting games has just joined the company. The livestreaming...
Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes channels the Millennium Falcon’s holotable in a mobile game
Remember when RD-D2 let the Wookie win? Remember the holotable they were playing on? Someone is making a game designed around that. To be...
Pac-Man 256 has a game-crashing bug — Hipster Whale has a patch on the way
Pac-Man 256 made a serious splash in the mobile arena when it launched two weeks ago, but it has a glitch that threatens the...
Watch Hideo Kojima’s farewell to Metal Gear: a goodbye unique to gaming
Developer Hideo Kojima is done making Metal Gear. He’s done making any game at publisher Konami. And as fans play through his latest release,...
Epic’s Unreal Engine virtual reality demo hits Oculus Rift, PS4’s Morpheus, and Vive
Virtual reality is one of the oncoming technical innovations that has the gaming community excited about the future, and game developer and tool creator...
FTC settles with Machinima for paying YouTube influencers to endorse Xbox One
The Federal Trade Commission has settled charges with Machinima, which had been accused of deceptive advertising by paying “influencers” to post YouTube videos that...
GamesBeat 2015 adds Nexon’s chief Owen Mahoney as a speaker
Our latest GamesBeat 2015 speaker is Owen Mahoney, the president and chief executive of Nexon, the Asian online gaming giant that has created titles...
Super Mario Maker is a joy every second you’re playing or building
[gb_review_rich_text game_title=”Super Mario Maker” platforms=”Wii U” genre=”Platforming” review_rating_value=”5″ official_page_url=”http://supermariomaker.nintendo.com/”] When I turned 5 years old, my family bought me a Nintendo Entertainment System with...