GamesBeat weekly roundup: Old is new with PlayStation 4 Pro and NES Classic

Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, we got better looks at the sci-fi title Mass Effect: Andromeda and snowboarding game Steep, and we discovered how the gaming industry has reacted to Donald Trump’s presidential win.

Enjoy, and have a great weekend!

Pieces of flair and opinion

• The DeanBeat: The game industry reacts to Trump’s triumph
• How the first person to get a PlayStation 4 feels about being the first to get PS4 Pro
• Tetris, VR, and escapism: Why we play
• PlayStation 4 Pro: Every PlayStation 4 Pro-compatible game so far
• 5 games the NES Classic shouldn’t have dumped
• Should you buy a PS4 Pro? GamesBeat Decides: Episode alpha 2

Above: Sombra seems like a powerful and interesting new character.

Image Credit: Blizzard

News

• Bossa Studios announces big playtest for Worlds Adrift online game
• October 2016 NPD: Xbox One outsold PlayStation 4 at U.S. retailers once again
• Nvidia’s Q3 revenue grows 54 percent thanks to Pascal GPU sales
• Nielsen: Overwatch fans are younger than other esports followers
• Atlas Reactor partners with ESL for its first major tournament
• Streamlabs lets YouTubers get paid in tips
• World of Tanks: Blitz brings its mobile armored battles to Steam
• PlayStation 4 is now a GIF factory
• Persona 5’s latest trailer shows off its talking cat
• Southeast Asia’s PC online and mobile game revenue to more than double to $3.3 billion by 2020
• Hyperkin’s NES Classic peripherals let you use a real NES gamepad
• Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare has fewer Steam players than Rainbow Six: Siege or Payday 2
• Vivendi’s latest purchase of Ubisoft stock shows it isn’t going away
• Paladins hits 4 million players since September open beta started
• Xbox Insider Program opens the development of future updates to all
• Venture capitalists contemplate how much exuberance is good for VR investing
• Deus Ex and Tomb Raider drive 23% revenue growth for Square Enix
• Every skin revealed for Overwatch’s new character, Sombra
• Mass Effect 2 and Mass Effect 3 now work on Xbox One and are part of the EA Access vault
• Hero’s Song takes it retro open-world to Steam Early Access
• Mass Effect: Andromeda trailer shows unfamiliar characters in an unknown galaxy
• Myst studio Cyan announces Obduction for PS4, PSVR, and HTC Vive
• DICE general manager Patrick Bach left EA after Battlefield 1 shipped
• Overwatch gets a new esports group from a Helsinki hockey team
• Ultrahaptics uses ultrasound so you can feel things in VR
• AMD ships three Polaris-based Radeon Pro chips for game and VR developers
• Xbox One chainsaws all comers as consoles crush mobile game ad spending in October

Above: Bonuses are live in Pokémon Go.

Image Credit: Niantic

Mobile and social

• Final Fantasy: Brave Exvius and Brave Frontier start mobile crossover event
• Google Daydream View review: A massive step up from Cardboard, but content is lacking
• Mingle Games’ Calming Lia could help you fall asleep
• DeltaDNA study shows mobile game makers don’t know how to handle in-game ads
• DomiNations launches big update so players can enter the atomic age
• Pokémon Go’s daily-bonus update is live
• Square Enix taps Mobile Strike maker MZ to create Final Fantasy XV mobile MMO
• Blippar releases its AR and computer vision tech for third-party developers
• How Next Games stopped ad fraud in The Walking Dead: No Man’s Land
• The 6 stages of a free-to-play social gamer

Previews, reviews, and interviews

• Why Microsoft cares so much about Xbox Live’s new social features
• A pro snowboarder and a gold medal skier react to Ubisoft’s Steep
• How Ubisoft built a virtual mountain and then created a video game around it
• Ubisoft’s Steep is a kinetic dive into extreme winter sports
• PlayStation 4 Pro delivers the 4K content — but 1080p-TV owners shouldn’t upgrade yet