GamesBeat weekly roundup: Rockstar’s new lawsuit, and Titanfall 2 announced

Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, the PlayStation 4 outsells the Xbox One (again), someone puts Flappy Bird on an e-cigarette, and we review anticipated games like Dark Souls 3 and Bravely Second: End Layer.

Happy reading, and have a great weekend!

Pieces of flair and opinion

• The DeanBeat: The narrative of the underdog in the gaming industry
• Bravely Second: End Layer tips and tricks to grind out success
• GamesBeat Summit will examine what investors seek from game startups
• Watch Flappy Bird played on an e-cigarette
• How to get in the Overwatch, Battleborn, Doom, and Gears of War 4 open betas
• Naughty America tries to get VR porn just right
• Twitch’s Kathy Astromoff will share developer success strategies at GamesBeat Summit 2016
• The timeline of Grand Theft Auto director Leslie Benzies vs. Rockstar Games
• What we want from Titanfall 2

Above: Vivi is looking better than ever on Steam.

Image Credit: Steam

News

• March 2016 NPD: Ubisoft, Nintendo shake up sales chart with The Division, Zelda
• PlayStation 4 outsells Xbox One in March
• Magic Leap acquires Israeli security firm NorthBit
• Outlyer Technologies’ Advrtas brings ads to virtual reality
• Final Fantasy IX is now available on Steam
• Microsoft to open Minecraft education edition for all schools in June, free on the early access program
• Loook studio will make mixed reality apps for Microsoft HoloLens
• Kangaroo Pro is a $199 Windows 10 PC with a little less portability, a lot more ports
• Naked Labs’ home fitness scanner captures your entire body in 3D
• Blizzard is fending off a potential Lizard Squad cyberattack that’s affecting Battle.net
• Stardew Valley is one of the best-selling PC games of the year as it surpasses 1M copies sold
• Star Wars: Battlefront’s next expansion adds Cloud City and Lando
• Microsoft on causing Oculus Rift delays: ‘This is false’
• Consortium: The Tower reaches Fig funding goal in 6 days
• Quantum Break developer Remedy promises fixes for Windows 10 version
• Virtual reality justifies those ludicrous 17-inch ‘portable desktops’
• Grand Theft Auto studio says former director’s lawsuit is ‘without merit’ and ‘downright bizarre’
• GTA: Online ‘has generated at least $500M in revenue’
• Destiny fans want better matchmaking, so they’re making it themselves
• Grand Theft Auto producer’s camp fires back at Take-Two countersuit: It’s ‘sparse’
• Ubisoft’s The Division spent more on ads than any other game in March
• Azubu’s new esports viewer offers higher resolution than Twitch
• The Division’s free Incursion update is now available
• Call of Duty World League champions look back on a year of Black Ops III esports
• Counter-Strike: Global Offensive takes out another esports viewership record
• Gartner: Global PC shipments fell 9.6% in Q1 2016, the first quarter below 65 million units since 2007
• Koi is China’s first PlayStation 4 game for the West, and it debuts April 19
• Gaming legend John Carmack: A strong team can take any crazy vision and turn it into reality
• Violent 2D beat-’em-up hopes to get made via Square Enix’s Collective platform
• CastAR shows how it will turn your tabletop into an animated gaming world
• Codemasters snares Sony’s Evolution Studios and speeds into racing games’ fast lane
• Titanfall 2 brings mech fights to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC
• Gears of War 4’s new trailer is the franchise’s latest marketing home run
• Deluxe VR offers creative services for virtual reality productions

Mobile and social

• Apple App Store and Google Play downloads grew 8.2% in Q1 thanks to games
• War Dragons launches on Android with new ad from Beavis and Butt-head animator
• Supercell’s Clash Royale on pace for $1B year after $110M debut last month
• Facebook wants to make social VR indistinguishable from real life
• Facebook demos taking selfies in VR
• Minecraft: Pocket Edition gets Mojang’s Realms online multiplayer service
• Japan’s Gree creates a $12M virtual reality investment fund
• Lucid VR raises $2.1M for 180-degree virtual reality camera
• This flying saucer is Facebook’s virtual reality 360-degree camera
• Zuckerberg: Future VR and AR gadgets will look like ordinary glasses
• Like father, like son: A second-generation game developer launches Plight mobile game
• Appnext grows by recommending the right experiences for people in the app-store jungle

Above: Bravely Second is out now.

Image Credit: MyNintendoNews

Previews, reviews, and interviews

• Dark Souls 3 is the zenith of the Souls brand of ruthless action
• This Monster Hunter Generations newb is as clumsy as he is stupid
• Star Ocean reminds us that Final Fantasy and Persona aren’t the last big-budget JRPGs
• Bravely Second: End Layer shows Square Enix still has its old-school juice
• Hover Junkers is virtual reality’s best multiplayer game
• How Remedy’s Sam Lake stepped up the ambition and creativity of Quantum Break