Zynga’s Dawn of Titans features thousands of soldiers fighting on an iPad screen
PREVIEW: Click here for all of GamesBeat’s 2015 Game Developers Conference coverage. Zynga’s NaturalMotion game studio has made an impressive technological leap with its Dawn of Titans game that I saw...
View ArticleAfro Samurai’s latest game is a simpler, more elegant affair
PREVIEW: Click here for all of GamesBeat’s 2015 Game Developers Conference coverage. SAN FRANCISCO — Gameplay and narrative can, at times, be at odds with each other. When one overpowers the other, you...
View ArticleBlockbuster game publishers describe harassment policies in the modern era of...
Click here for all of GamesBeat’s 2015 Game Developers Conference coverage. SAN FRANCISCO — Today’s trolls and hatemongers are more technologically adept than the police, and they’re more vicious than...
View ArticleFirst recipients of Epic’s Unreal Dev Grants deserve every penny
Click here for all of GamesBeat’s 2015 Game Developers Conference coverage. Well, this is a nice way to encourage new game developers. Epic Games, the studio behind hits like Gears of War and Infinity...
View ArticleWomen claim their place in the game industry
Click here for all of GamesBeat’s 2015 Game Developers Conference coverage. SAN FRANCISCO — Some prominent female game developers brought down the house again with an inspiring session on what it’s...
View ArticleAsteroids: Outpost isn’t a traditional Asteroids game, and I can live with...
PREVIEW: Click here for all of GamesBeat’s 2015 Game Developers Conference coverage. SAN FRANCISCO — During a private demonstration at this year’s Game Developers Conference, I finally got a chance to...
View ArticleThe DeanBeat: The game industry’s struggle with light and darkness
Click here for all of GamesBeat’s 2015 Game Developers Conference coverage. SAN FRANCISCO — Today is the last day of the 2015 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, and my old bones are weary...
View ArticleGame industry heavyweights highlight the exclusive GamesBeat Summit May 5-May...
VB EVENT: Small, intimate, and peer-to-peer: For the first time, GamesBeat is hosting the GamesBeat Summit. It’s May 5 and May 6 at the scenic Cavallo Resort just north of San Francisco. Earlybird...
View ArticleStudent project or not, The Flock has a ton of potential
Click here for all of GamesBeat’s 2015 Game Developers Conference coverage. SAN FRANCISCO — If there is one aspect of covering the Game Developers Conference that I enjoy, it’s bumping into an indie...
View ArticleHas the game industry turned the corner on women and diversity? (interview)
After a year of going back to the Stone Age during the GamerGate controversy, the game industry made some progress last week in advancing the cause of women and diversity in the game business. Kate...
View ArticleImaginative, handmade controllers power these unique games (gallery)
Click here for all of GamesBeat’s 2015 Game Developers Conference coverage. At least one place at the 2015 Game Developers Conference (GDC) gave controllers the spotlight over the games themselves....
View ArticleSee the sights of GDC 2015 right here (gallery)
Click here for all of GamesBeat’s 2015 Game Developers Conference coverage. With the end of the 2015 Game Developers Conference (GDC), the three halls at the Moscone Center in San Francisco have been...
View ArticleBlack developers explain how free game engines, incentives will bring more...
In a 2005 study, the International Game Developers Association found that black people only make up 2 percent of the industry’s workforce. A decade later, that representation isn’t much better. But...
View ArticleGDC hits a record 26,000 attendees for virtual reality, game culture talks,...
Click here for all of GamesBeat’s 2015 Game Developers Conference coverage. The 2015 Game Developers Conference (GDC) drew a record-setting 26,000 game industry professionals last week to San...
View ArticleIndie designer Zoe Quinn to developers: You can code comedy, too
A joke is not that much different from a command prompt. Video games are a chain of functions and systems into which we plug in variables and inputs. A programmer codes a character’s walk habits by...
View ArticleBioWare cofounder Greg Zeschuk returns to games to get kids off the couch
Greg Zeschuk, the retired cofounder of BioWare, spent a lot of time keeping kids and adults on the couch, playing video games like Dragon Age and Mass Effect. But now he’s making amends for that with...
View ArticleThe artisan insanity of the 2015 Independent Games Festival Pavilion (gallery)
The Indie Games Festival has been the esoteric, artisan cousin to the Game Developers Conference for 17 years. Hundreds of submissions are pared down to just a small handful of finalists, and this...
View ArticleFinal Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi sees mobile gaming akin to TV...
The creator of Final Fantasy wants his mobile game to benefit from the same care and attention his past hits have. Hironobu Sakaguchi is best known as the creator of the Square Enix Final Fantasy...
View ArticleUnraveling the mysteries of No Man’s Sky’s 18 quintillion planets
Click here for all of GamesBeat’s 2015 Game Developers Conference coverage. No Man’s Sky’s massive galaxy feels a little smaller. At last week’s Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Hello Games...
View ArticleDanganronpa writer isn’t interested in creating bite-sized mobile experiences
Though it took awhile to ramp up, the Danganronpa game series has been a runaway success for Japanese developer Spike Chunsoft. The Battle Royale-style high school horror role-playing series went from...
View ArticleThe DeanBeat: Shinra inches forward on its plan to revolutionize online games...
Update 11:36 a.m. Pacific: Corrected to show it was Alex Tait of Shina Technologies’ Montreal studio, not Andy Kipling of Hardsuit Labs, who GamesBeat quoted. When the leaders of Shinra Technologies...
View ArticleAge of Empires devs modernize the RTS genre with faster gameplay — and giant...
A few veteran developers are trading in their ancient empires for towering robots. At this year’s Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, developer BonusXP unveiled Servo, a sci-fi mech game for...
View ArticleMarvel Heroes 2015 creator reflects on rocky launch and the importance of...
Four times a week, David Brevik streams himself on Twitch while he plays Marvel Heroes 2015 and interacts with fans. Sometimes he’ll fight with them, like when he took control of an overpowered cow and...
View ArticleGames, trains, and developers: Second annual Train Jam is all about getting...
FEATURE: One developer’s cross-country train trip has become one of the industry’s most interesting and promising game jams. Early last month, a train departed from Chicago, headed west toward San...
View ArticleFirewatch turns a boring wilderness job into a compelling adventure
I wasn’t sure what to expect when I stepped into a dimly lit room peppered with fake trees and road signs. Between the props were small pockets of people gathered around bright TVs. Each line looked...
View ArticleThe DeanBeat: Even for a second-generation game designer, being an indie is a...
EXCLUSIVE: Theresa Duringer spent the last three years of her life as an indie game developer. She thought that experience would be like a Lone Ranger. But she found that her world had become more...
View ArticleTobii eye-tracking adds a new layer to game control (impressions)
By watching you, Tobii can improve your gaming experience. The eye-tracking technology has been honed over the past decade to a point where it is now a viable method for controlling games. Building...
View ArticleHow Journey’s game studio attracts and hires the best talent
Sunni Pavlovic is studio manager for Thatgamecompany, the Santa Monica, Calif.-based creator of hit games such as Flower and Journey. In that role, she is in charge of hiring and evaluating job...
View ArticleGameStop’s Kongregate division learns how to publish free-to-play mobile games
GameStop, the world’s biggest game retailer, made its move into digital gaming in 2010 when it acquired online indie game portal Kongregate. And as it expanded into mobile publishing, Kongregate has...
View ArticleDevelopers pitched me at GDC, and these are the games I saw
Like my colleagues at GamesBeat, I spent every hour of this year’s Game Developers Conference frantically running from one meeting to another. Unlike them, I didn’t focus on the talks and personalities...
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