Stories by Dean Takahashi
The Walking Dead game creator Telltale Games lays off most of staff (updated)
California Cup will create Overwatch esports rivalry between Northern and Southern California
The DeanBeat: Console games aren’t dead yet
How Facebook and 500 other companies will bring 3.8 billion more people online
Tilting Point will spend $29 million to promote Disruptor Beam’s mobile game Star Trek: Timelines
Red Dead Redemption 2 hands-on — What happened when I accidentally shot a dog in the Wild West
Ghostbusters World AR game lets you capture ghosts anywhere
Online publishing platform Minute Media acquires Mental Floss entertainment media brand
ReadyUp raises $2 million to manage esports teams and help players improve
The Venture Reality Fund: Arcades, games, enterprise, and health care are driving VR forward
Arkadium buys out VC investor to focus on long-term strategy
Red Dead Online will launch as a public beta for PS4 and Xbox One in November
Perfect365 AR beauty app adopts Kin to bring more women into cryptocurrency
Rokoko’s motion-capture library will be available in Unity Asset Store
OKCoin will list 5 new cryptocurrencies in effort to diversify its exchange
Magic Leap One Creator Edition hands-on — A sneak peek at augmented reality’s future
Magic Leap hands-on — Flinging Angry Birds on a coffee table in augmented reality
Illumix will use $8.6 million in funding to make augmented reality games
SparkLabs launches accelerator in D.C. for cybersecurity and blockchain startups
Riot Games signs Mastercard as League of Legends sponsor as it fixes sexist culture
Mixed reality video platform Jaunt gets a new CEO
BlueStacks 4 introduces faster emulator to play high-end mobile games on a PC
Skillz hits $400 million revenue run rate with mobile esports platform
Ampere launches its first ARM-based server processors in challenge to Intel
Why Wargaming is disrupting World of Warships with submarines and revamped aircraft carriers
World of Warships: Das Boot — submarines will launch in 2019
Apprentice.io raises $8 million for conversational augmented reality platform
Chip factory spending to hit all-time high of $67.5 billion in 2019
Shadow of the Tomb Raider interview — how developers view Lara Croft’s evolution
Caleta Gaming launches 38 HTML5 social casino games
Ubisoft explores how blockchain games can help players
How nucleic acid memory could be used to store data in DNA
How DraftKings CEO sees the future of daily fantasy sports and esports betting
John Riccitiello Q&A: How Unity CEO views Epic’s Fortnite success
The DeanBeat: The blockchain hype train comes to gaming
Former Kabam vets launch Rogue, a new mobile game publishing label
Indian game developer sizzles as Food Truck Chef hits 16 million downloads
Ryff lets advertisers place any virtual object into commercials and films
