GamesBeat weekly roundup: Xbox One beats PlayStation 4, and exploring No Man’s Sky

Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, we check out the new Xbox One S, Pokémon Go gets a big update, and we look at Titanfall 2’s single-player campaign. We also made a music playlist for Spotify’s new Gaming channel, so please check that out!

Have a great weekend!

Pieces of flair and opinions

• The DeanBeat: Where Pokémon Go should go next
• Spotify intoduces a new gaming portal, featuring a playlist that GamesBeat made
• Hearthstone’s One Night in Karazhan guide: How to beat the prologue and The Parlor
• Veterans show how to do a game publishing deal
• Before Pokémon Go, Pikachu was always a star under The Pokémon Company
• Creativity: What’s diversity got to do with it?
• No Man’s Sky’s funky fauna: Unicorn dogs, hissing crabs, and space dinos
• How Warner Bros. is making its game business digitally powered
• VR VCs examine the gap between expectations and reality
• Wevr’s Neville Spiteri tells devs how to choose the right VR platform
• Why one of Hearthstone’s new cards has made fans furious
• Helpful lessons developers can learn from their hardcore superfans
• PlayStation VR co-creator says the ‘year of VR’ still holds surprises for us
• How EA is moving to turn all players into competitive gamers
• Hundreds of universities want to teach VR development, but few have the equipment
• Lionsgate’s Peter Levin on the convergence of VR games and entertainment
• AMD’s Roy Taylor on how VR will change entertainment

Above: One Night in Karazhan is now live.

Image Credit: Blizzard

News

• Nordic Games brings back the THQ name, rebrands as THQ Nordic
• Xbox One outsold PlayStation 4 in July in the U.S.
• Nvidia CEO credits smooth Pascal launch for strong second-quarter profits
• GoldenEye 64’s fan-driven PC remake is getting a big update
• Nvidia’s $1.43 billion in revenue beats expectations as Pascal graphics chips launch
• Hearthstone’s One Night in Karazhan adventure is live now
• Microsoft buys game livestreaming startup Beam to integrate with Xbox
• Pokémon Sun and Moon trailer reveals new forms for classic monsters like Raichu
• Call of Duty World League’s second season climaxes with more teams, huge upsets
• Open Gaming Alliance and Unity team up to create women’s speaker bureau
• Master of Orion reboot launches August 25
• Pokémon Go down for some: Map shows no PokéStops or gyms
• The Pokémon Company sees no need for a QuakeCon-style fan convention
• ‘Detective Pikachu’ movie was in the works long before Pokémon Go
• Eisenhorn: Xenos brings Warhammer adventure to PC and iOS
• Overwatch’s next animated short will debut on August 18
• Gwent: The Witcher card Game’s closed beta is delayed to October
• Sony announces PlayStation Meeting event for September 7 following PS4 Neo rumors
• Pac-Man Championship Edition 2 will munch up all your pellets next month
• Counter-Strike: Global Offensive team boosts Latin America esports group’s roster
• AMD examines if your PC gaming rig can be energy efficient
• PlayStation 4 Neo getting big reveal next month, according to rumor
• Blizzard may start ‘taking action’ against Overwatch players exploiting Lucio Ball bug

Mobile and social

• Bossa Studios raises $1.35 million to boost online game Worlds Adrift
• Firefly Games raises $10 million to make Hollywood-based mobile games
• Halo co-creator turns Renegade with first-person shooter for iOS
• TabTale crosses a billion downloads for kids mobile games and apps
• The accidental history of Niantic’s Pokémon Go, as told by John Hanke
• Former Sega chief Tom Kalinske wants someone to create Sonic Go
• How Lumines creator Tetsuya Mizuguchi is bringing his beloved franchise to mobile
• Pokémon Go developer tests big changes to tracking with ‘Nearby’ and ‘Sightings’
• AppsFlyer ranks mobile ad networks by retention and downloads
• Pokémon Go gets update with bug fixes and tracker tweaks: Here’s what’s different
• Pokémon Go master completes his global quest to ‘catch ’em all’ — with help from Expedia
• Sensor Tower: Pokémon Go made $200 million in its first month
• What Pokémon Go can teach the mobile game industry
• Iran ban on Nidoran: Pokémon Go not permitted due to ‘security concerns’

Above: Best friends!

Image Credit: EA

Previews, reviews, and interviews

• Titanfall 2’s single-player campaign is more Half-Life than Call of Duty
• No Man’s Sky turned into No Man’s Sleep for me
• AMD’s Radeon RX 460 punches above its weight
• Xbox One S is the right console for 2016’s messy 4K-television market
• How Hearthstone’s tech team tackles an online game for PC and mobile