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Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, we try to help horror fans come to turns with Silent Hills’ cancellation, Valve can’t sell its community on paid mods, and the mobile game Mr Jump is jumping (heh) to success.
Happy reading, and have a great weekend!
Pieces of flair and opinion
The DeanBeat: Bold ideas in gaming
Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft Blackrock Mountain guide — how to beat The Hidden Laboratory
Fans are still salty two days after Silent Hills’ cancelation
Bloodborne is the best Silent Hills we are going to get
6 horror games to help you mourn Silent Hills
After 6 Call of Duty games, Treyarch is hitting its stride with Black Ops III
Grand Theft Auto V mods weekly: FOV and superpowers in slow motion
Bloodborne Easter egg reveals what Hunters read in their spare time
How Shovel Knight’s developer revived the bane of GameStop clerks everywhere: Battletoads
Above: Your nose goes in there somewhere
Image Credit: Feelreal.
News
Dota 2 launches new Compendium to build another gigantic prize pool
New Destiny T-shirt supports earthquake relief efforts in Nepal
DayZ creator Dean Hall on the gaming trend he wants to see: ‘cruelty and loss’
Valve has a game that lets you pretend to be a unicorn in virtual reality
Xbox 360 system update adds new features, more storage capacity
Microsoft shows a realistic crying human face using DirectX 12 graphics
Microsoft announces Minecraft modding add-in for Visual Studio
Valve launches OpenVR dev kit for virtual reality hardware makers
CCP boss: VR is ‘not going to be big’ next year
Unreal Engine 4 gets SteamVR support in its latest update
You can now embed and play MS-DOS games directly in a tweet
Vainglory dev hires former Wargaming exec to tap into MOBA-crazy Asia markets
Heroes of the Dorm didn’t exactly make ratings history, but ESPN’s still happy
GameMaker: Studio plans to show off Windows 10 Universal Apps at Build 2015
Controversial mass murder game Hatred gets a June release date
Former Kickstarter success story Ouya is up for sale
Mask that adds Smell-O-Vision to virtual reality goes to Kickstarter
Square Enix survey: 80% bought Final Fantasy Type-0 to play Final Fantasy XV’s demo
Mega Man-influenced Mighty No. 9 partners with Deep Silver, gets Sept. 15 release date
WWE finally releases a game on PC today
Valve on paid mods: ‘We didn’t understand exactly what we were doing’
Oculus announces a virtual reality art competition — and two new hires
PlayStation 4 has Nintendo to thank for its first game from Central America
Kerbal Space Program officially releases after 4 years of testing
Konami voluntarily delists from New York Stock Exchange
Konami confirms Silent Hills cancellation (update)
Ominous news for Silent Hills: Konami is taking down P.T.
Valve boss Gabe Newell: Paid mods have only made $10K, and ‘that’s not stupidly greedy’
Mobile and social
Terra Battle reaches 2 million downloads worldwide, console version in development
It costs more than $3 to acquire a mobile user now, Fiksu finds
Game of Thrones: Ascent marches to Kindle Fire
Britney Spears joins the celebrity rush to mobile gaming
The Kardashian effect: Tencent pays $126M for 15% of Glu Mobile
Lebanon’s Wixel Studios expands from Middle East drama to games that fight kids’ cancer
App Annie: Mr Jump leaps to second most-downloaded iOS game in March
China could be the hotbed for mobile e-sports
Inside Wooga’s mobile gaming hit factory in Berlin (photo gallery)
Facebook launches desktop video app ads to drive game installs
Germany’s Handy Games chief dives into wearable game design
Ad partnership helps bridge the worlds of kids mobile and TV advertising
Kabam teams up with Longtu Games to launch Marvel mobile game in China
Disney Infinity app debuts on Android devices
The Galaga-Tekken crossover is real and heading to iOS in Japan
China’s TestBird dives into mobile analytics and user acquisition with TrackingBird
Above: Xenoblade Chronicles X.
Image Credit: Nintendo
Previews and interviews
Actors from The Order: 1886 discuss starring in an interactive Hollywood blockbuster
Call of Duty: Black Ops III’s designers on underwater guns and MOBA-like play (interview, part 3)
‘Apple doesn’t care': Why one longtime indie role-playing game maker has left iOS
Treyarch designers explain the big multiplayer changes in Call of Duty: Black Ops III (interview, part 2)
How Treyarch evolved its own brand of Call of Duty multiplayer
Call of Duty: Black Ops III’s single-player campaign takes you deep into a cybernetic quandary
Call of Duty: Black Ops III multiplayer’s biggest additions are all about e-sports
Call of Duty: Black Ops III introduces multiplayer changes that make it faster and more fun
Activision’s Treyarch takes the veil off Call of Duty: Black Ops III
Xenoblade Chronicles X is wondrous — but this lush, massive world is not for the timid
Reviews and impressions
Runeblade puts fantasy role-playing on the back of your wrist
Broken Age: Act 2 is the meaty main course that Act 1 should have been
Did you know Mario Kart 8 has a brake button? You actually need it for 200cc