Hello, and welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, Nintendo announced that they’re going to be making more NES Classic Editions next year, PewDiePie made another big mistake, and Thatgamecompany’s next project is coming to Apple devices first. Enjoy, and have a great weekend! Pieces of flair and opinion The DeanBeat: Our growing piles...
In case you don’t have enough things to do in virtual reality, you can now run 2D-screen Android applications within virtual reality on the Samsung Gear VR, thanks to a new version of Samsung’s PhoneCast app debuting today. The app works on the Samsung Gear VR headset, which uses your mobile phone to give you a...
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has sold more than 10 million copies. One Twitch analytics site has it overtaking Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, League of Legends, and other top games in the livestreaming arena. And it even passed Valve’s own Dota 2 on its own Steam platform, hitting 1 million concurrent players for the first time on September 8. Other games are adding...
Google has announced plans to unveil new devices on October 4. The date was first revealed yesterday on a billboard in Boston, followed today by a YouTube video, a Google+ post, and a new landing page. The event comes exactly a year after the company’s first “Made by Google” hardware event. We don’t yet know where...
Dell has opened preorders for its Dell Visor virtual reality headset. The Visor, which is based on Microsoft’s Windows Mixed Reality headset platform, will begin shipping for $350 on October 17. Touch controllers are available for $100, and the whole package, including headset and controllers, is available for $450. These prices are lower than those...
High-flying augmented reality startup Magic Leap is trying to raise $500 million at a $6 billion valuation, according to a report in Bloomberg. The Florida startup has already raised $1.3 billion to fund its AR glasses, which have been the subject of much speculation because they can reportedly create animations over the real world that...
For anyone waiting for groundbreaking augmented reality or virtual reality news from Apple yesterday, sorry, you’re still going to wait. But the announcements that came from the mothership (pun intended, since this presentation came from the new starship-like Cupertino campus) show the sort of incremental support that AR needs as it prepares to grow. Tuesday, Apple’s announcements for...
PCs aren’t dead yet. Just ask Ron Coughlin, head of HP‘s computer business. The Palo Alto, California company’s PC business has growth at about 11 percent in revenues, year to date. It has become the No. 1 PC company again, as of a couple of quarters. Coughlin believes HP is taking share from its Windows...
Virtuix launched its Omni motion platform for virtual reality in 2015 so that we could all run around in VR. Today, the company has pivoted to the enterprise and arcade markets, and it is now launching Omniverse, a suite of VR games that you can play on the Omni in an arcade. Austin, Texas-based Virtuix...
At its September 2017 event in Cupertino today, Apple announced the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus, successors to the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, plus the iPhone X, a new flagship to commemorate the device’s 10th anniversary. Apple’s 11th-generation phones are now official. Preorders for the first two begin September 15, and the...
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