GamesBeat weekly roundup: MMO troubles, virtual reality, gaming, and slow Vita sales
Missed the latest news on GamesBeat? Here's a list of the stories we ran over the past week.
Missed the latest news on GamesBeat? Here's a list of the stories we ran over the past week.
Each month, the Bitmob Writing Challenge offers both old and new community members a chance to write on a specific topic. If you find this introduction a bit bland, then that’s what I want to hear — this month we’re …
Germany's Gameforge has announced that it is moving into the mobile gaming market.
The industry has commonly referred to Nintendo's upcoming Wii U as the first of the next-generation consoles; however, this moniker is up for much speculation in light of the current console market.
Up until this point, the market has been …
2012 is shaping up to be a banner year for quality free-to-play games on the PC, and the upcoming MechWarrior Tactics is no exception.
EA and Zynga, two of the world's biggest game companies, are at war over copyrights.
DeNA/Ngmoco gives a first look at its mobile Transformers game.
EA's Summer Showcase was filled with mobile games from publishers Chillingo and PopCap, among others.
With the console market looking a little shaky and Facebook starting to slow down, mobile stands before the gaming industry as a potential savior.
Death Rally is a foot in the door for digital games at Remedy Entertainment. Maybe its next big thing will be a mobile game?
Papo & Yo isn't the first game to feature graffiti, but its style and influences are uniquely Latin American.
Is it August already? Man, this year has flown by. But fast or slow, our stalwart Bitmob community never misses a beat. (You know. A beat about games. A GamesBeat. Get it?)
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In this fast-paced, hustle-and-bustle world of ours, a lot of people are afraid of being left behind. I'm often worried that I'll be at a party and people will start talking about Lost, and I won't have anything to add …
Life in a video game is cheap. Odds are you bite it on a fairly regular basis just bopping through the campaign. Your character explodes in a shower of meaty parts or he simply ragdolls, letting out a manly, yet …
Gamers at Work is a collection of interviews with some of the game industry's most iconic founders, developers, and entrepreneurs. It's also a handy guide for aspiring business people hoping to break into games.
In the past few years, the massively multiplayer-online market has looked congested at best. And the harsh reality is that unless your MMO is based on an established property or series such as Warcraft or Star Wars, your chances of …
You can buy all the weird Minecraft-related clothing you want (including a three creeper moon T-shirt), but finding more game-accurate items is actually a bit of a challenge. Well, one generous person with the time and patience to run a 3D …
Lightsabers and chainsaws appear in the third and presumably final free major expansion.
Kicking off this week's QuakeCon event, Apogee Software finally made good on its talk of a modern reboot of its classic 1995 first-person shooter, Rise of the Triad.
The expansion sees a powerful vampire lord attempting to use the titular Elder Scrolls to vanquish the sun forever.
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