The 10 best games of 2017 and GamesBeat’s Game of the Year
So 2017 was … well, the games were great. We spent 2.5 hours last week determining our top 10, and that list has some...
GamesBeat PC gaming editor Jeff Grubb’s top 10 games of 2017
This has been such a spectacular year for games, and that affected me in an unintuitive way. As I was putting together this list,...
Cuphead is the most beautiful game of 2017
We’re at a point where you don’t have to play to the strengths of the consoles or PC graphics cards to get great visual...
2017 was the year of … gamer-rage opportunists
Getting late into December always gives us a chance to look back and assess the year that was as part of our GamesBeat Rewind year-end...
GamesBeat Decides’ game of the year part 4
Let’s keep this train rolling!
We’re back for part 4 of the GamesBeat Rewind 2017 game of the year podcast spectacular. Join us, won’t you? Here are our categories:
2017 was the year of …
Best New Character
Most Beautiful Game
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Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus had the best writing of 2017
Writing in games is strange. It’s bigger and more complicated than writing for a film, a novel, or a song. Games can convey a...
The Non-Award for Best Tech That’s Too Much Work to Set Up goes to VR
While everyone else is giving awards to Zelda and PlayerUnknown’s Battegrounds, our GamesBeat Rewind year-end event has the guts to hand out silly accolades to the...
GamesBeat Decides game of the year part 3
Another day? Well, we’ve got another GamesBeat Decides game of the year podcast. For part 3, we’re digging into the following categories: Standout Moment...
The ‘How Do You Screw That Up’ Award goes to Electronic Arts
You would think that making new Star Wars games in the era of annual film releases from Disney is a can’t-lose scenario, but you weren’t...
Horizon: Zero Dawn is the Freshest Gaming Universe
Sequels tend to dominate gaming. I’ve never had a problem with that because, unlike films, game sequels often feature fundamental changes compared to their...