Welcome to another weekly roundup of our stories here at GamesBeat. This time, a bunch of publishers beat sales expectations, Mike Tyson fights himself in Punch-Out!!, and we continue our Pitch Us in One Tweet series.
You’ll find all of that and more below. Happy Halloween, and have a great weekend!
Pieces of flair and opinion
- The DeanBeat: Like it or hate it, #GamerGate isn’t losing steam
- Kablam! Nick Earl takes the studio president’s job at mobile game company Kabam (exclusive)
- The top 10 games of Pitch Us in One Tweet 2014 (#2: Moon Hunters)
- Watch critic Anita Sarkeesian talk GamerGate on ‘The Colbert Report’
- The top 10 games of Pitch Us in One Tweet 2014 (#3: The Adventures of Bertram Fiddle)
- T-minus 1 million players and counting: A cautionary tale for online developers
- We’re relaunching GamesBeat Unfiltered. Here’s what you need to know
- Watch Mike Tyson play himself in Punch-Out!! It’s ’80s glory in 3 minutes
- Why you should think twice about turning your short film into a game
- The top 10 games of Pitch Us in One Tweet 2014 (#4: Pixel Galaxy)
- 10 Metroid facts you probably didn’t know
- The top 10 games of Pitch Us in One Tweet 2014 (#5: The Deer God)
- Analyst: It’s ‘prudent to assume’ that Call of Duty ‘has peaked’
- That Xbox 360 GTA: San Andreas HD remake is out now — here’s a graphics comparison
Above: Destiny’s first expansion, The Dark Below.
Image Credit: Bungie
News
- PlayStation 4 sold 3.3 million last quarter, but Sony still posted a financial loss
- More action, less timesink — MOBA Tome: Immortal Arena hits Steam on Nov. 21
- Bethesda officially cancels Prey 2, one of the coolest games I ever saw at E3
- Acclaimed twin-stick shooter Resogun is blasting its way onto PlayStation Vita
- Sony on Driveclub debacle: ‘We do not have an exact time frame’ for when it’ll work
- Check out Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare’s live-action trailer from ‘Friday Night Lights’ creator
- OnLive brings its game streaming to Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Ireland
- Ubisoft beats expectations as digital sales surge
- Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs sells more than 9M copies
- Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor DLC unleashes the beasts
- Robot car toy maker Anki hires Skylanders and EA veterans as key executives
- That GTA: San Andreas HD remake on Xbox 360 is actually a mobile port
- Take-Two says all four of its October game launches have been ‘flawless’
- Grand Theft Auto Online is still Take-Two’s biggest digital moneymaker
- Take-Two made $22M on its investment in gameplay livestreaming king Twitch
- Grand Theft Auto publisher Take-Two speeds past Wall Street’s earnings expectations
- EA is on a roll — and Wall Street loves it
- PlayStation 4’s 2.0 update brings connectivity and freezing issues
- Collegiate League of Legends is growing, but developer Riot isn’t sure what the future holds
- Bungie president on Destiny: ‘We wish we had put more time into some areas’
- The Oscars of gaming will reward indie teams that take big risks
- Bungie details and dates Destiny’s first expansion, The Dark Below
- Dying Light scrapped on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 — older systems ‘couldn’t run the game’
- Playwire Media partners with RapidFire for dynamic in-game ads
- Nintendo beats estimates with better demand for Super Smash Bros and Mario Kart 8
- YouTube finally arrives on the PlayStation 4
- Women game much more than you realize, research firm shows
- EA chief expects Q2’s revenue-growth momentum to continue
- EA reveals that Battlefield: Hardline hits in March
- EA blows away Wall Street’s earnings expectations
- Court throws out Call of Duty lawsuit from ex-dictator, convicted murderer Noriega
- Hearthstone bots get the hammer — Blizzard bans thousands of accounts
- Nimble VR aims to let you use your hands in virtual reality
- Go buy X-Wing and TIE Fighter on GOG right now (updated)
- Valkyria Chronicles, Sega’s beautiful tactical role-playing game, is heading to PC
- Alienware shows off its new Area-51 gaming desktop
- Alienware 13 laptop aims for no-compromise PC gaming
- Alienware unveils ‘graphics amplifier’ to give laptops screaming desktop performance
- GOG surrounds us, penetrates us, and (did) release TIE Fighter and X-Wing for modern PCs (update)
- PS4 versus Xbox One: Microsoft outspends Sony on TV advertising
- A Poké-first: Nintendo bundles Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire in dual pack
- Xbox One price drops $50 for the holidays to $350
- Bungie redesigning Destiny’s Iron Banner PvP mode, rewarding higher level players
Above: Everyone has their own mobile game.
Image Credit: Strike Team Games
Mobile and social
- Mobile gameplay-recording company Kamcord has more video creators than Twitch
- Next Games acquires mobile game studio Helsinki GameWorks
- JuiceBox Games hits 4M downloads for HonorBound and takes the mobile game to new markets
- Puzzle & Dragons publisher buys 70 percent of Playphone
- Facebook gaming declines as fewer people use the social service on their desktop
- David Hasselhoff wants to keep up with Kim Kardashian — by launching his own mobile game
- Arkadium’s simple Twisty Hollow casual iOS game debuts today after a lot of effort
- Star Wars: Galactic Defense is a fully armed and operational tower defender for iOS, Android (updated)
- To dominate mobile, EA turns to its greatest strength: sports
- Popular game engine Cocos2d-X gets deep Facebook integration
- Gaming pioneer Atari launches social casino game with its classic video game brands
- Chukong Technologies launches Cocos game engine services initiative
- Brian Reynolds revives Big Huge Games and unveils first mobile strategy title: DomiNations
- The rising cost of acquiring mobile-app users is hitting devs like a hurricane
- Puzzle & Dragons publisher partners with Skulls of the Shogun developer
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