2015’s best fighting game stories
The fighting game community has traditionally thought of itself as a grassroots movement separate from the giant productions of other esports, but the line...
2015 was the best year ever for games
Time is weird. We mostly use it to organize days and weeks to help us figure out how far away the next Star Wars...
Super Mario Galaxy hits Wii U Virtual Console on Christmas Eve
Nintendo is bringing back one of its best games ever to help you celebrate the holidays. Super Mario Galaxy is coming to the Wii...
GamesBeat Rewind 2015: The best video game trailers
If you want to sell games in the $91 billion-and-growing global market, you really need a great trailer. This year was full of awesome examples of...
Minecraft’s Wii U release caused Nintendo’s eShop to experience an intermittent outage
One of the best-selling games ever made is finally on a Nintendo system, and people rushed the Wii U’s download store to get it....
Super Mario Maker update introduces Koopa Clown Car(?), world records(!), and more
Nintendo is sticking to its 2015 strategy of substantial free updates for its biggest releases. Super Mario Maker is getting a new patch December...
2015’s biggest gaming trends: Nintendo embraces online, open worlds take over, and more
We’ve had the year of the bow. We’ve had the year of Luigi. What was 2015 the year of? It can be hard to...
Nintendo’s Amiibo succeed and fail at the same time
The first line of figures launched with Super Smash Bros. for the Wii U on November 21 last year. Since then, as of the first half of fiscal 2015, Nintendo has shipped a total of 21.10 million Amiibo toys since launch, with the largest percentage — 7 million — being sold in the U.S.
How Pokémon Go will benefit from Niantic’s lessons from Ingress on location-based game design
Niantic Labs was an oddball startup within Google. Conceived by John Hanke to promote exercise and an appreciation of public art, Niantic created a...
We live in a world where Nintendo is making Cloud and Bayonetta Amiibo figures
Earlier today, Nintendo revealed the final set of characters coming to Smash Bros., and that means we’re getting some new Amiibo interactive toys. The...