Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, Fire Emblem: Fates is a hit, we learn more about the Iron Maiden mobile game, and Nintendo cuts its 2016 earnings guidance.
Enjoy, and have a great weekend!
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Above: Sun and Moon are coming.
Image Credit: Nintendo
News
Sun and Moon are Pokémon’s next games — coming this holiday
Nintendo cuts 2016 earnings guidance and says it will sell 1M fewer 3DSes than predicted
Capcom boosts its rerelease strategy with Resident Evil 4, RE5, and RE6 for PS4 and Xbox One
Bandai Namco brings permadeath dungeon-crawler Necropolis to consoles
Naughty Dog and Sony issue a new Uncharted 4 trailer without Ubisoft’s imagery
After spending $32M, World of Tanks developer Wargaming is still figuring out esports
Fire Emblem: Fates’ sales cement Nintendo’s strategy series as a retail hit in the West
Uncharted 4’s newest trailer underscores the importance of story [update]
AMD partners with Stardock to create awesome graphics for Ashes of the Singularity
Bank Limit takes F-Zero and adds VR and combat, debuts at Oculus Rift’s launch
Fueled by Twitch, Punch Club surpasses $2M in sales and preps The Dark Fist expansion
UC Davis uses a game to chart its future
Borderlands headlines free Xbox Live Games with Gold for March
Fallout 4 mod support hits PC in April, Xbox One in May, & PlayStation 4 in June
Interabang starts Fig crowdfunding campaign for Jay and Silent Bob video game
Neverwinter prepares to unleashes its next expansion … and Orcus
Nerf herding — Star Wars: Battlefront gets Twilight Hoth map and more in February update
HoloLens video demonstrates Windows 10’s augmented reality user interface
Xbox Live down again as persistent troubles haunt the Xbox One (update)
Microsoft will show app reviews from some Insiders in the Windows Store
Final Fantasy creator’s Mistwalker studio teams up with Bravely Default maker Silicon Studio
How Fallout 4’s next update changes the game — and how to get it now
The Division’s beta attracted 6.4 million players
Halo World Championship’s $2.5M prize pool is the largest in esports shooter history
What Stan Lee and Steve Wozniak are brewing for their 1st Silicon Valley Comic Con
Twitch competitor DingIt rounds up 20M monthly viewers
Facebook’s Zuckerberg appears at Samsung event to talk VR, confirms Minecraft is coming to Oculus
HTC Vive will cost $799, preorder on February 29 and ships in early April (updated)
Above: Pac-Man Puzzle Tour for iOS and Android.
Image Credit: Bandai Namco
Mobile and social
Niantic raises $5 million to forge ahead with Pokémon Go
Pac-Man: Puzzle Tour is another Candy Crush clone
Mobile virtual reality on track to hit $861M in revenues this year
mNectar’s new Spectra streaming network turns ads into playable games
Virtual reality hype runs amok at MWC 2016, as mobile industry crowds onto bandwagon
Finland’s PlayRaven launches Robocide ‘micro real-time strategy’ mobile game
Kendall & Kylie game takes Glu Mobile to the top 10 again after poor Katy Perry launch
FarmVille co-creator Mark Skaggs catches the express train to India to make mobile games
Why positional tracking for mobile virtual reality is so damn hard
Saudi Arabia’s mobile-gaming whales want what’s hot — even if it’s in another language
RevTwo lets you call for help when you’re having an app fail
Zynga puts its San Francisco headquarters up for sale
Activision Blizzard adds a few hundred million users as it closes $5.9B King acquisition
Hollywood backs Fifth Journey to take movie-licensed games to China
Oculus’s Gear VR boss: Samsung Galaxy S7 beats the S7 Edge for virtual reality
App monetization and distribution platform Appnext grew revenue 345% in 2015
Kabam lays off 8% as it focuses on massively multiplayer mobile hits like Marvel: Contest of Champions
Daily fantasy sports outlook: No profits, lots of uncertainty, and dying unicorns
Facebook says people have watched 1 million hours of video with Samsung Gear VR, forms Social VR team
Samsung arms every Unpacked attendee with Gear VR to watch its press conference
Should Bethesda’s Todd Howard bet on mobile or console Fallout games?
Previews, reviews, and interviews
Unicorn story: How this young woman went from student to indie game studio chief
Iron Maiden: Legacy of the Beast turns iconic metal band’s mascot into a mobile gaming star
How Bruce Shelley brought a board gamer’s view into designing Civilization
Warren Spector wants to mine new ’emergent gameplay’ from System Shock’s nostalgia
Far Cry: Primal rocks the Stone Age but feels stale