Eleague series shows the NBA taking a more personal interest in esports
Eleague aims to show that there are folks at the NBA who are bona fide esports fans and not just fans of its estimated $696...
Dota 2 championships: 3 finalists battle for biggest slice of $24 million prize pool
The International Dota 2 Championships is like the Super Bowl of esports, and it wraps up today with three finalists fighting for the lion’s...
OpenAI’s bot beats top Dota 2 player so badly that he quits
An artificial intelligence has beaten one of the world’s top Dota 2 players in single combat today. Danil Ishutin, better known by his gaming...
PC Gaming Weekly: Watch out, Hearthstone — here comes Artifact
Depending on your point of view, Valve’s news this week is either one heckuva tease or a knife in your Half-Life-lovin’ soul. Late Tuesday night, the publisher...
Valve announces Artifact, its Dota-themed card game
A Dota-themed digital card game is coming in 2018. Valve made the announcement today at the 7th annual Dota 2 competition The International, the biggest...
For a small developer, even a poorly curated Steam Direct beats Greenlight
Valve recently announced that the fee for submitting to Steam Direct will be $100 per game. That’s right. For $100, anyone will be able...
Steam launches VR video category
Valve’s Steam store is the undisputed leader of PC game distribution, though the marketplace is also a portal for buying VR games, software, and...
AltspaceVR founder wants to make virtual reality as accessible as the web
Eric Romo and his cofounders at AltspaceVR want to make virtual reality as pervasive and accessible as the worldwide web. AltspaceVR is leading the...
What kind of experience should virtual reality deliver?
Virtual reality is in its infancy, and we’re still trying to figure out what kind of experience it can deliver for the masses at...
How VR startups can survive the slow growth of 2017
While the throngs were attending the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, we had our own GamesBeat event nearby at a breakfast sponsored by...