Categories Posted inin Business Chris Heatherly explains Disney’s wild ride in mobile gaming Posted byby Dean Takahashi October 23, 2015 10 min Disney has the best entertainment brands in the world, and it has been a player in the modern mobile gaming industry for years. But... Continue Reading 10 min
Categories Posted inin Business How Lionsgate is trying to break the movie-game curse Posted byby Dean Takahashi October 22, 2015 9 min Since Peter Levin joined movie studio Lionsgate last year as head of interactive ventures and games, he has been a heavy dealmaker. Levin has... Continue Reading 9 min
Categories Posted inin Business Valve taking preorders for Steam Link so you can play PC games on any TV in the house Posted byby Dean Takahashi October 16, 2015 1 min Valve is now taking orders for its Steam Link device that will enable PC gamers to play games from their Steam catalog on any... Continue Reading 1 min
Categories Posted inin Business Windows 10 adoption passes Windows 8.1 on Steam Posted byby GamesBeat October 2, 2015 2 min More than one in every five gamers on Steam is already using Windows 10. Valve updated its Hardware & Software Survey today for September 2015,... Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business On Steam, Windows 10 adoption is already ahead of Windows 8, Vista, XP, Mac, and Linux Posted byby GamesBeat September 2, 2015 2 min Valve today updated its Hardware & Software Survey for August 2015, and the good market share news seen by Microsoft this past month is... Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business Valve’s and HTC’s Vive virtual reality system gets consumer rollout delay Posted byby Dean Takahashi August 28, 2015 1 min HTC and Valve announced today that the initial shipments of the HTC Vive VR virtual reality goggles are going to be limited, and consumer... Continue Reading 1 min
Categories Posted inin Business How HoloLens and backward compatibility fit into Xbox’s grand strategy Posted byby Dean Takahashi June 18, 2015 11 min Microsoft head of publishing Shannon Loftis answers post-event questions in a one-on-one at E3 2015. Continue Reading 11 min
Categories Posted inin Business Final Fantasy Type-0 HD comes to PC via Steam Posted byby GamesBeat June 2, 2015 1 min The upgraded port of a PlayStation Portable game came to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in March, and is now moving to PC as Square Enix and other publishers continue to find success with ports on the platform. Continue Reading 1 min
Categories Posted inin Development Valve adds its heavyweight name to Razer’s open-source VR initiative Posted byby GamesBeat May 18, 2015 2 min Valve joins the Open Source Virtual Reality standard with Ubisoft and others, adding weight to openness in this new field of tech. Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business A short tour of the semi-secret projects inside Valve’s headquarters (photo gallery) Posted byby Dean Takahashi May 3, 2015 4 min We took a trip to Bellevue, Wash., to check out Valve's headquarters. Continue Reading 4 min