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The big rumor last week was that Tencent, the biggest game company in the world, had bought a 5 percent stake in Bluehole Studio, the South Korean developer behind one of the most talked-about games of 2017: PlayerUnknow...

The PlayStation 4 Pro and Xbox One X are a headache waiting to happen for people who capture a lot of gameplay footage off of consoles. That’s because those systems support Ultra HD 4K resolution, and that can cause er...

GUEST: In a 2015 interview, Elon Musk pointed out that recent advances in auto technology could lead to human-operated vehicles becoming illegal someday. While this may seem ludicrous to some, it could play out sooner th...

Forza Motorsport 7 has drawn criticism since debuting earlier this week for an in-game economy that seems to put a throttle on your progression to encourage you to buy loot boxes. Forza developer Turn 10 Studios has not ...

Mothers are hungry for a new way to fit into the workplace. The In Good Company Conference convened 400+ entrepreneurial women for a gathering like no other.

What advice do leading entrepreneurs have for one another? Here's five great tips they share

OPINION: Like many small countries across the world, Israel punches well above its weight in the global startup ring. Until my recent visit to Tel Aviv and Jerusalem to find out why Israel was doing so well, I — like m...

GUEST: Artificial intelligence is spreading around us. Be it targeted advertising on social media, filtering applicants for a job, determining air ticket prices, controlling your central heating through voice recognition...

What took place this week in the credit card and payment industries

Dan Fornace, the independent game developer behind Rivals of Aether, asked his followers on Twitter today via a poll if they’d be interested in a Switch version of the game. Rivals of Aether is a fighting game that tak...

Angels, accelerators and entrepreneurs helped in extraordinary ways to support the startups affected by recent hurricanes. R. Stewart Thompson is bringing 70 employees of Puerto Rican startups to Calgary. Supporters can ...

Hello, and welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, we played some of the most anticipated games for the rest year: Middle-earth: Shadow of War (which has you killing things in an open-world Mordor) and As...

OPINION: I was pissed off in August when my colleague, Evan Blass, revealed this year’s Pixels would not have a headphone jack. It’s October, and I’m pissed off now, as indeed the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL don’t hav...

A mother from a small village in India pivots her failing paper-plate business to meet the demands of her customers, and forever changes her family's destiny in the process.

Most startups don't have the budget to hire a full-time marketing person, and don't have money to invest in marketing initiatives that may or may not move the needle. So what can you do in the interim? Here are five simp...

SpecialEffect, the U.K.-based charity that helps people with physical disabilities play video games, raised $391,470 (£300,000) during its fundraising event last week. That well exceeded its goal of $130,460 (£100,000)...

This college student took a leave from school and now works with Gary Vaynerchuk every day. He's also a budding entrepreneur who is set on changing the education narrative. Learn how he landed a job with Vaynerchuk, and ...

After noticing his in-laws' fake Christmas trees didn't look like the real thing, Stanford business school grad Thomas "Mac" Harman sensed there could be a market for high-end artificial trees.

AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), a chat service first launched in 1997, will shut down on December 15, Oath announced today. Following the acquisition of Yahoo by Verizon, AOL and Yahoo became Oath. “If you were a 90’s k...

A phalanx of forecasters now expect the American shale revolution to peter out, but what happens when, not if, the digital revolution comes to the oil and gas industry? Will we see a repeat of the 'Amazon effect'?

Sometimes the GamesBeat staff is a microcosm of the world of gamers and other real people. This week, Jeff Grubb, our PC gaming editor, called the rest of us nerds because we were talking knowledgeably about Shelob, a ma...

Talking to chef Jordan Kahn about his audacious new Los Angeles restaurant, Vespertine.