PlayStation starts 2021 as king of TV ad impressions
PlayStation has continued its domination of gaming industry TV advertising into the new year, racking up over 425.7 million ad impressions from mid-December to...
Path of Exile: Echoes of Atlas is Grinding Gear’s most downloaded expansion
Path of Exile continues to grind out success more than seven years after its launch. Grinding Gear Games announced today that Echoes of Atlas...
The D20 Beat: King’s Bounty II heralds what should be a fantastic year for RPGs
I find it amusing that a the resurrection of a beloved retro game is itself retro now. I’m talking about King’s Bounty: The Legend,...
Hypercasual mobile game trends to watch in 2021
Hypercasual is one of the most talked-about genres in mobile gaming. It took off at an unprecedented rate with Flappy Bird going viral in...
PlayStation accounts for over 40% of TV ad spend from gaming brands in 2020
The numbers are in and it’s official: Sony’s PlayStation was the top gaming brand spender on TV advertising for 2020, accounting for over 40%...
GamesBeat managing editor Jason Wilson’s favorite non-RPGs of the year
When I started putting together a list of games for this, I realized that, like so many others during the pandemic, I had played...
PGA Tour 2K21 interview: Back on the links
Some see PGA Tour 2K21 as a return of license golf to gaming. But really, it hadn’t disappeared. Since EA stopped its PGA series...
The D20 Beat: My critical hits of 2020
The Witcher 3 is one of my favorite role-playing games of the past decade. The Witcher 2 is also a fantastic RPG. So far,...
Tannenberg interview: Capturing World War I on the Eastern Front
When World War I comes up in popular culture, the Eastern Front gets far less attention than the battlefields of the West. We hear...
PlayStation and Nintendo spent 2020 vying for TV game ad crown
PlayStation and Nintendo are consistently two of the biggest gaming-industry spenders on TV advertising, and as such are often the gaming brands with the...