Epic Games has teamed up with Cesium to enable 3D geospatial technology in games that use the Unreal Engine.
Cesium will be available for free for all creators on the Unreal Engine Marketplace. It’s an open-source plugin for the engine that unlocks global 3D data and geospatial technology. This means that games that use it will be able to discover in real time the location of a player in a given…
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Atari has launched its Atari Capsule Collection of collectible nonfungible tokens (NFTs), which use blockchain technology to uniquely identify collectibles for Pong and…
Nexon, the Tokyo-based maker of Maplestory and other online games, has invested $874 million in Hasbro, Bandai Namco, Konami, and Sega Sammy.
Nexon said it has made an unrealized gain of $279 million on the long-term investments, but it has no intention of acquiring the…
RPGs in 2021 and beyond: The Nexon take
March 27, 2021
The flavor and mechanics of role-playing games are all over the industry these days. The way you build skills, statistics, gear, and even worlds borrow from the ideas we first saw in tabletop war games, Strat-O-Matic Baseball, and Dungeons & Dragons.
But I know where RPGs have been. I’m more interested in where they’re going.
So I’m going to spend the rest of 2021 talking to people…
Twitch and Microsoft’s ID@Xbox event today confirmed that 20 new indie games are coming to Xbox Game Pass the same day they hit Xbox. That includes anticipated and stylish games like The Ascent, Stalker 2, and Recompile. Here’s a look at all 20 games that ID@Xbox talked…
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GamesBeat reviews editor Mike Minotti got his first COVID-19 vaccine shot, so he’s feeling a little loopy. He also ripped off his bandage live during this week’s episode of the…
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PUBG Mobile has earned $5.1 billion in lifetime sales, according to market analyst Sensor Tower.
This comes as Tencent itself touts that the battle royale game has passed the 1 billion downloads mark. That means that PUBG Mobile is earning about $5 for every download.
Last year was a big one for the…
It’s a new day for the Roman empire. Sega Europe and Creative Assembly said that Total War: Rome Remastered is coming on April 29.
The remaster of the original 2004 game (known as Rome: Total War before the company got its branding right) will be developed in a…
Nintendo is preparing to release a Super Switch this holiday, according to original reporting from the Nate the Hate podcast on YouTube. This revision will likely feature a new system-on-a-chip (SOC) that will enable the system to bring in extra performance, improved…
Valve published a list of Steam’s February 2021 top 20 new releases, and it shouldn’t surprise anyone that the early access megahit Valheim is on the list. But the company also highlighted a trend toward games with puzzle-heavy mechanics. Those include The Room 4: Old Sins, Cyber Manhunt, and Little Nightmaers II. You can see more about the games that cracked Steam’s February top 2020 on the…
