Microsoft acquires InXile to make role-playing games for Xbox, PC
The Xbox team’s acquisition storm continues. The publisher revealed today that it is folding Wasteland 2 and Torment: Tides of Numenera studio InXile Entertainment...
Watch a master play Tetris Effect live
Tetris Effect is available now for PlayStation 4, and it’s an excellent game. Tetris is already wonderful and has been for decades, and Tetris...
Tetris Effect review — Video games get their Kuleshov effect
In the early part of the 20th century, Soviet filmmaker Lev Kuleshov did a series of experimental movies to determine where viewers draw meaning...
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 is selling 3-times faster than Black Ops III on PC
Activision Blizzard just reported the results of its fiscal Q3. The company hit its own expectations, but it came up short relative to what...
PUBG fixed? New patch addresses the desync problem
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds developer PUBG Corp. is still running its “#FixPUBG” campaign. The studio has promised to deal with common problems that have ruined a...
Hitman 2 review: A game that isn’t ashamed to be a game
One of my regrets from 2016 is that I didn’t play enough Hitman to put it higher on my game of the year list....
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds art boss on designing 64-square kilometers
Creating a map for PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is a monumental undertaking. The standard size for these zones is 8 kilometers long-by-8 kilometers wide. That’s a...
Red Dead’s doing great, but Grand Theft Auto still prints money
Red Dead Redemption is having a huge launch, but Take-Two Interactive won’t report the results of that success until next quarter. For now, the...
GamesBeat Decides 101: You have betrayed the fans!
The GamesBeat Decides podast is back. In this episode, we talk about betraying the very rational and calm fans. We also go over all...
Steam is down for Valve’s regular Tuesday maintenance
It’s Tuesday evening in the United States, and that means somewhere within the bowels of Redmond, Washington, engineers are banging away at some Steam...