Above: Evolve was one of the coolest games at E3.
Image Credit: 2K Games
Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, we talk about the best games and coolest technologies we saw at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, Angry Birds gets a Transformers crossover, and League of Legends is now a college sport.
You’ll find all of that and more below. Happy reading!
Pieces of flair and opinions
The DeanBeat: The top 10 games you’ll be itching to play
5 ways to make Hearthstone even more addictive
How to become a Let’s Player like PewDiePie and Game Grumps
Alien: Isolation’s creative director talks through the classic film in this audio commentary track (exclusive)
Goat Simulator: How to beat all quests, find all trophies, and unlock all Achievements
GamesBeat’s favorite indies of E3 2014
E3 2014: The Games of the Show (GamesBeat staff picks)
The 10 coolest technologies for gamers at this year’s E3
The first-person shooter problem: Why the games we love rarely change
Is single-player dying? The move to multiplayer and the sacrifice of solitude
The GamesBeat E3 2014 Non-Award Awards: The stuff no one else is writing about
Still don’t want a Wii U? This is what Nintendo would say to convince you
How the Zelda Wii U reveal trailer broke the Internet
Above: Mario Kart 8 was the second best-selling game of the month.
Image Credit: Nintendo
News
WWE 2K15 is getting a NBA facelift thanks to 2K’s tech
League of Legends is now a college sport — and one university is offering scholarships for its team
The Witcher 3 team wants to make President Obama an honorary witcher
Major League Gaming app hits Xbox One just in time for its e-sports championships
How speedrunners are helping Doctors Without Borders and the people of Syria and Iraq
Trials Fusion’s Tournaments mode is out — and it’s probably not what you were hoping for
Atari’s new owners come out swinging with licensing, classic remakes, casino games, and an LGBT title
For game developers looking to avoid violating federal laws, AgeCheq releases a free solution
Titanfall’s ‘no servers found’ issue affecting players — Microsoft is working on a fix (update)
How Watch Dogs’ performance on PS4 and Xbox One is helping EA, Activision, and Take-Two
Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft $10,000 tournament winner accused of cheating
E3 helps Twitch break viewership record
‘Video Games: The Movie’ documentary will launch in theaters on July 18
Curse gets a million gamers in a week with the open beta launch of Curse Voice (exclusive)
May 2014 NPD: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Watch Dogs, and Mario Kart 8 fuel industry-wide surge
Square Enix’s cloud tech will enable games with 17 times the area of Skyrim
Mobile and social
How Lego Fusion will build on Activision’s and Disney’s success with interactive toys
We’re cheap: Most mobile gamers will share their personal information for in-app rewards
Hands on with Amazon’s Fire Phone
Mind Candy launches Match 3 social mobile game Moshling Rescue
FMV classic MegaRace’s rebirth brings back its original host along with cheesy videos
Mobile games will bring in nearly $29B by 2016 by squeezing players for more
Amazon’s 3D Fire Phone already has a game: Angry Tofu
TreSensa launches a mobile web game feed to help boost engagement and revenues (exclusive)
RapidFire’s dynamic in-game ads will help Miniclip finally monetize its online library
Analysts: New Amazon phone must reinvent shopping on smartphones
Former Twisted Metal and Warhawk developer’s first iOS game hits this Thursday
Fruit Ninja developer Halfbrick explains why it’s getting into publishing
Animoca Brands’ Garfield mobile games hit 30M downloads
Angry Birds Transformers rolls out later this year
Facebook unleashes game discovery feature for the iPad
With 60M members using its brain-training app, Lumosity finally launches on Android
Above: Ori and the Blind Forest feels like a playable animated movie.
Image Credit: Microsoft
Previews and interviews
E3 was filled with new things for GameStop to sell to hardcore gamers (interview)
After 10 years of episodic games, Telltale’s time in the sun has come (interview)
Abzu’s secrets are about more than a Journey-esque scuba dive
Ori and the Blind Forest’s producer wants his beautiful Xbox One exclusive to play as good as it looks (interview)
How Civilization Online brought a Grammy-winning composer back to games (interview)
EA has brands, but it absolutely needs to create all-new games (interview)
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons’ creator canceled his next movie to work on a new game (exclusive)
Insomniac takes us into the ‘awesomepocalypse’ with Sunset Overdrive (interview)
Nexon’s new CEO wants creative devs, free-to-play to be fair — and cloners to take a hike (interview)
‘Han Solo simulator’ — No Man’s Sky developer says the sci-fi game’s tech came after the idea
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain makes the cardboard box better than ever
Wing Commander creator Chris Roberts shows off Star Citizen and the new way to fund triple-A games (interview)
Reviews
EA Sports UFC is the best UFC game yet — but that isn’t saying much
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