Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, we reviewed Grim Fandango Remastered, 3DS sales pass 50 million, and one of writers picked up poop at an airport.
Ours is a noble profession.
Happy reading, and have a great weekend!
Pieces of flair and opinion
- The DeanBeat: Picking up poop and bonding at events that celebrate gaming
- Oculus Super Bowl party could be the future of social sports broadcasting
- 5 Hearthstone cards that desperately need some help
- Read+Watch+Listen: Bonus material for Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell fans
- Windows 10 preview: PC gaming works great, but the Xbox App is full of dead ends
- ‘Mythbusters’ goes to hell to take on Doom
- Grim Fandango came out at the wrong time — now it’s ready for success
- ISIS and gaming: 5 students want to teach about surviving under the militants’ heel
Above: How hilarious would the movie have been if the that thing actually came out the first time they opened the gate?
Image Credit: Mighty Mega
News
- Innovative Bot Colony game pulled — cost $3 million to make but only sold $10,000
- Sega will shut down its once legendary San Francisco office
- Industrial Toys launches its Midnight Rises digital graphic novel
- Battlefield: Hardline open beta starts next week
- Alibaba invests $10M in struggling Ouya amid rumors the Chinese megacorp is making its own console
- Lego’s making Jurassic Park and Avengers games
- Nintendo updates Super Smash Bros. for Wii U with 15 more 8-player stages
- Xbox Live down for many on Xbox One
- Frogmind unveils Badland: Game of the Year Edition for consoles and PC
- Hats equal money: 1,500 Steam community creators have earned more than $57M making items
- EA stock price surges as Wall Street falls in love with its PS4, Xbox One sales and more
- Spotify is coming to PlayStation soon, as Sony pulls the plug on its own music-streaming service
- Dragon’s Dogma Online will be three times bigger than Dragon’s Dogma
- Nintendo nets profit again as it surpasses 50M 3DSes shipped
- SimCity BuildIt, FIFA, and EA Access lead Electronic Arts to record digital revenues
- EA was No. 1 publisher on Xbox One, PS4 in 2014 as Dragon Age: Inquisition sets record for BioWare
- Sony suggests fix for Grim Fandango download problems — but it’s not helping everyone
- Xbox One Call of Duty: Advance Warfare players encounter problems with the Havoc expansion
- Why London’s game industry is so strong — and it still needs a startup accelerator
- Here’s how to get the latest Xbox One controller update
- The most controversial card in Hearthstone is getting a ‘balance change’
- World of Warcraft’s next patch adds selfies
- Dragon’s Dogma Online revealed — free-to-play on PS4, PS3, and PC in Japan
- Minecraft is building blocky stacks of cash for Microsoft
- Microsoft shipped — but didn’t sell — 6.6M Xboxes during its fiscal Q2
- Feminist Frequency’s Anita Sarkeesian’s next videos examine masculinity and strong women in games
- $250,000 prize fund for latest Counter-Strike: Global Offensive e-sports tournament
- Shinra starts ‘supercomputer cloud gaming’ test in Japan with Final Fantasy VII
Mobile and social
- Frank Gibeau explains how EA Mobile generated almost $500M in revenue in 2014
- Knight Foundation ponies up $3M for projects that ‘leverage libraries as a platform’
- Mobile-advertising data company Fiksu introduces new products to help marketers
- Marvel: Contest of Champions developer Kabam’s $400M in revenue for 2014 is another record year
- The Sandbox adds Robert Kirkman’s Invincible superheroes
- Live-Bet sports app lets you bet on the next play in a football game
- AppLift unveils DataLift to automate user acquisition
- Disney Infinity Toy Box 2.0 mobile app debuts on iOS
- 2K launches Evolve: Hunters Quest companion app
- Gameloft’s full-year mobile gaming revenue hits $256M
- Ucool to launch Super Bowl ad for Heroes Charge mobile game
- I Am Bread will make your yeasty dreams come true on iOS
- Google Play’s download dominance over Apple grew in 2014
- Fingerprint acquires kids’ mobile game companies Scribble Press and Cognitive Kid
- Loyalty rewards company Lootsie raises $3.5M in seed funding
- You’re spending more time playing mobile games than ever before
- What the hell is a midcore? The 11 terms every mobile gamer & developer need to know
- App downloads soared in December — but so did marketing costs
- Mobile game maker Animoca Brands finally goes public in Australia
Above: This griffon is not easy to take down.
Image Credit: CD Projekt RED
Previews and interviews
- Civilization IV’s lead designer wants you to financially ruin your enemies
- The Witcher 3’s open world is an open invitation
- Even the smallest choices matter in Life is Strange (preview)
- Wooga chief says mobile gaming is separating into winners and losers (interview)
- Star Wars: Battle Pod arcade game drops players in front of a dome for full immersion
Reviews