Analysis
Microsoft’s Xbox Live Gold price increase feels like manipulation
The DeanBeat: What Ready Player Two tells us about the metaverse
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What mobile developers can learn from Angry Bird’s cross-platform approach (VB Live)
Path of Exile: Echoes of Atlas is Grinding Gear’s most downloaded expansion
Resident Evil: Village is coming May 7 — PS5-exclusive demo launches today
Hitman 3 speedrun: How I beat the Dubai stage in 24 seconds
Amazon Web Services’ insights into gaming for 2021
Puzzle Quest 3 announced as a free-to-play sequel
Former EA exec Peter Moore returns to gaming as Unity SVP of sports and live entertainment
Devsisters launches Cookie Run: Kingdom mobile RPG
Rival Peak interactive reality show hits 22 million views
Hitman 1 and 2 players probably shouldn’t play Hitman 3 yet
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Opera acquires YoYo Games for $10 million and launches Opera Gaming division
Tilting Point opens a mobile game studio in Russia
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Hearthstone gets 35 new cards on January 21
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Toya and Zag Games team up for Miraculous Ladybug & Cat Noir adventure game on Roblox
Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning comes to Switch on March 16
VB Lab Insights
The 2021 gaming landscape: What developers, publishers, and marketers need to know
Review
Hitman 3 review — A world made entirely out of Chekhov’s guns
Opinion
The D20 Beat: King’s Bounty II heralds what should be a fantastic year for RPGs
Social casino game maker Huuuge will raise $150 million in Warsaw IPO
Savage Game Studios raises $4.4 million for mobile shooter game
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Driving Game Growth: Our event on pushing games forward in 2021
GamesBeat Decides: Sonic’s best (and worst) friends
The RetroBeat: River City Girls is a beat-’em-up delight
GreenPark Sports launches early access for sports and esports social platform
The DeanBeat: The best of CES 2021 as seen from afar
December 2020 NPD: Nintendo dominates with half of the top 20 games
AMD CEO Lisa Su talks core counts, console launches, and Apple relationship
NPD 2020: Nintendo Switch was No. 1 hardware, PlayStation 5 was No. 2
Mobile game maker Playtika goes public at $11 billion valuation
NPD reveals the best-selling games of 2020 in the U.S.
InvestGame: 2020 game deals hit value of $33.6 billion across 664 transactions
Blizzard launches Battle.net update
Ultimate Gamer Worldwide Open will give away $1 million in prizes
505 Games acquires Puzzle Quest studio Infinity Plus Two