The overlooked games of 2015: Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate
Following Assassin’s Creed: Unity’s disastrous launch last year Ubisoft’s latest Assassin’s Creed entry, Syndicate, had to fight an uphill battle to convince people it’s...
Final Fantasy’s Lightning turns Louis Vuitton model
Video games are infiltrating the world of high fashion. Lightning, the star of the role-playing game Final Fantasy XIII, is modelling Louis Vuitton’s spring...
Xbox kid waits 8 years to get revenge by Christmas pranking his dad
Imagine that your dad played a prank on you. How long would you wait to get back at him? A year? Two? How about...
Steam’s shoot-’em-up library gets stronger with Deathsmiles
I’m a pretty big shoot-’em-up fan, but one of the worst parts of liking these games is finding good releases. It’s not that designers...
Amplitude deftly revives its old-school rhythms for 2016
Rhythm games have moved on from the likes of the original Amplitude. Released back in 2003 for the PlayStation 2, the original Amplitude (itself...
The overlooked games of 2015: Resident Evil Revelations 2
As the yearly best-of lists start cropping up around the Web (including right here at GamesBeat), you probably won’t see Resident Evil: Revelations 2...
Rise of the Tomb Raider gets a January PC release date on Steam
Lara Croft’s exclusive window on Xbox One is shutting soon. Rise of the Tomb Raider is coming to PC in January, according to its...
2015’s best fighting game stories
The fighting game community has traditionally thought of itself as a grassroots movement separate from the giant productions of other esports, but the line...
The 10 best indie games of 2015: N++, Her Story, Undertale, and more
Giant, open-world games like The Witcher 3, Metal Gear Solid V, and Fallout 4 have made 2015 one of the best years in gaming...
Kentucky fines PokerStar’s owner $870 million to cover residents’ losses
Canadian gaming company Amaya has been ordered by a Kentucky court to pay $870 million in penalties to cover alleged losses by the state's residents who played real-money poker on PokerStars' website between 2006 and 2011.