Microsoft ponders ‘bigger, more bolder changes’ to Xbox Achievements
Microsoft invented the modern Achievements concept when the feature launched with the Xbox 360, and we’ve seen those little pop-up badges show up everywhere...
Watch Hearthstone’s Lich King respond to fan comments and GamesBeat disciples
Maybe that Lich King isn’t such a bad fellow after all. Sure, he want to enslave the world with an undead army and all...
Hearthstone: Knights of the Frozen Throne — Blizzard shares insights on The Lower Citadel
Hearthstone: Knights of the Frozen Throne has a lot of exciting new cards, but it also gives us our first single-player campaign since August...
Hearthstone’s Knights of the Frozen Throne expansion is live
Move over, dinosaurs. Death Knights have come to Hearthstone. The digital card game giant’s Knights of the Frozen Throne expansion is now live on...
Discord starts testing video chat and screen sharing with 5% of its gamers
Discord has begun testing video chat and screen sharing — two of the most-requested features from its audience of free voice and text chat...
GawkBox raises $3.7 million to let fans tip streamers by engaging with mobile apps
GawkBox has raised $3.7 million to enable a new form of tipping for streamers. It enables fans to tip livestreamers by getting the fan...
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds gets 6 core-plus CPU optimization
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is getting an update today that includes optimization for CPUs that have 6 or more compute cores. That patch, which also fixes...
StarCraft II is now a laboratory for AI research
Blizzard’s partnership with DeepMind, a firm that specializes in machine learning, has culminated in the release of the StarCraft II API, which is available...
Lawbreakers gameplay: Watch us play the new zero-gravity character shooter
Lawbreakers is the first game from Cliff Bleszinski’s Boss Key Productions, is out now for PC and PlayStation 4. It is a team-based hero shooter...
Hearthstone: Knights of the Frozen Throne — when the expansion and solo quests will launch
Hearthstone: Knights of the Frozen Throne is introducing 135 new cards, and Blizzard announced today that it will go live on August 10 at...