GamesBeat weekly roundup: Xbox One price drop, Sunset Overdrive reviewed, and Colbert talks about #GamerGate

This time, a bunch of publishers beat sales expectations, Mike Tyson fights himself in Punch-Out!!, and we continue our Pitch Us in One Tweet series.

You’ll find all of that and more below. Happy Halloween, and have a great weekend!

Pieces of flair and opinion

• The DeanBeat: Like it or hate it, #GamerGate isn’t losing steam
• Kablam! Nick Earl takes the studio president’s job at mobile game company Kabam (exclusive)
• The top 10 games of Pitch Us in One Tweet 2014 (#2: Moon Hunters)
• Watch critic Anita Sarkeesian talk GamerGate on ‘The Colbert Report’
• The top 10 games of Pitch Us in One Tweet 2014 (#3: The Adventures of Bertram Fiddle)
• T-minus 1 million players and counting: A cautionary tale for online developers
• We’re relaunching GamesBeat Unfiltered. Here’s what you need to know
• Watch Mike Tyson play himself in Punch-Out!! It’s ’80s glory in 3 minutes
• Why you should think twice about turning your short film into a game
• The top 10 games of Pitch Us in One Tweet 2014 (#4: Pixel Galaxy)
• 10 Metroid facts you probably didn’t know
• The top 10 games of Pitch Us in One Tweet 2014 (#5: The Deer God)
• Analyst: It’s ‘prudent to assume’ that Call of Duty ‘has peaked’
• That Xbox 360 GTA: San Andreas HD remake is out now — here’s a graphics comparison

Above: Destiny’s first expansion, The Dark Below.

Image Credit: Bungie

News

• PlayStation 4 sold 3.3 million last quarter, but Sony still posted a financial loss
• More action, less timesink — MOBA Tome: Immortal Arena hits Steam on Nov. 21
• Bethesda officially cancels Prey 2, one of the coolest games I ever saw at E3
• Acclaimed twin-stick shooter Resogun is blasting its way onto PlayStation Vita
• Sony on Driveclub debacle: ‘We do not have an exact time frame’ for when it’ll work
• Check out Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare’s live-action trailer from ‘Friday Night Lights’ creator
• OnLive brings its game streaming to Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Ireland
• Ubisoft beats expectations as digital sales surge
• Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs sells more than 9M copies
• Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor DLC unleashes the beasts
• Robot car toy maker Anki hires Skylanders and EA veterans as key executives
• That GTA: San Andreas HD remake on Xbox 360 is actually a mobile port
• Take-Two says all four of its October game launches have been ‘flawless’
• Grand Theft Auto Online is still Take-Two’s biggest digital moneymaker
• Take-Two made $22M on its investment in gameplay livestreaming king Twitch
• Grand Theft Auto publisher Take-Two speeds past Wall Street’s earnings expectations
• EA is on a roll — and Wall Street loves it
• PlayStation 4’s 2.0 update brings connectivity and freezing issues
• Collegiate League of Legends is growing, but developer Riot isn’t sure what the future holds
• Bungie president on Destiny: ‘We wish we had put more time into some areas’
• The Oscars of gaming will reward indie teams that take big risks
• Bungie details and dates Destiny’s first expansion, The Dark Below
• Dying Light scrapped on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 — older systems ‘couldn’t run the game’
• Playwire Media partners with RapidFire for dynamic in-game ads
• Nintendo beats estimates with better demand for Super Smash Bros and Mario Kart 8
• YouTube finally arrives on the PlayStation 4
• Women game much more than you realize, research firm shows
• EA chief expects Q2’s revenue-growth momentum to continue
• EA reveals that Battlefield: Hardline hits in March
• EA blows away Wall Street’s earnings expectations
• Court throws out Call of Duty lawsuit from ex-dictator, convicted murderer Noriega
• Hearthstone bots get the hammer — Blizzard bans thousands of accounts
• Nimble VR aims to let you use your hands in virtual reality
• Go buy X-Wing and TIE Fighter on GOG right now (updated)
• Valkyria Chronicles, Sega’s beautiful tactical role-playing game, is heading to PC
• Alienware shows off its new Area-51 gaming desktop
• Alienware 13 laptop aims for no-compromise PC gaming
• Alienware unveils ‘graphics amplifier’ to give laptops screaming desktop performance
• GOG surrounds us, penetrates us, and (did) release TIE Fighter and X-Wing for modern PCs (update)
• PS4 versus Xbox One: Microsoft outspends Sony on TV advertising
• A Poké-first: Nintendo bundles Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire in dual pack
• Xbox One price drops $50 for the holidays to $350
• Bungie redesigning Destiny’s Iron Banner PvP mode, rewarding higher level players

Above: Everyone has their own mobile game.

Image Credit: Strike Team Games

Mobile and social

• Mobile gameplay-recording company Kamcord has more video creators than Twitch
• Next Games acquires mobile game studio Helsinki GameWorks
• JuiceBox Games hits 4M downloads for HonorBound and takes the mobile game to new markets
• Puzzle & Dragons publisher buys 70 percent of Playphone
• Facebook gaming declines as fewer people use the social service on their desktop
• David Hasselhoff wants to keep up with Kim Kardashian — by launching his own mobile game
• Arkadium’s simple Twisty Hollow casual iOS game debuts today after a lot of effort
• Star Wars: Galactic Defense is a fully armed and operational tower defender for iOS, Android (updated)
• To dominate mobile, EA turns to its greatest strength: sports
• Popular game engine Cocos2d-X gets deep Facebook integration
• Gaming pioneer Atari launches social casino game with its classic video game brands
• Chukong Technologies launches Cocos game engine services initiative
• Brian Reynolds revives Big Huge Games and unveils first mobile strategy title: DomiNations
• The rising cost of acquiring mobile-app users is hitting devs like a hurricane
• Puzzle & Dragons publisher partners with Skulls of the Shogun developer

Previews and interviews

• Resident Evil Revelations 2 finally fixes a big Capcom problem: your partner’s brains

Reviews

• Sunset Overdrive’s crazy style is a gleeful blend of Tony Hawk Pro Skater and combat (review)