Hitman 3 is fun, what’s coming from Nintendo, and more | GB Decides 178
It’s 2021 now, and the government still hasn’t outlawed video games. But even if it did, GamesBeat Decides would continue because editors Jeff Grubb...
Hitman 3’s murder-mystery stage has a delightful ‘Knives Out’ reference
Hitman 3 includes a level that is a clear homage to murder-mystery stories from authors like Agatha Christie and the lady from Murder She...
Hitman 3’s shortcuts are indicative of IO Interactive’s smart design
Hitman 3 is the game I need right now. For the most part, it’s still the same experience that developer IO Interactive delivered with...
Nintendo couldn’t let go of Luigi’s Mansion 3 developer Next Level Games
Nintendo announced overnight that it is acquiring Luigi’s Mansion 3 developer Next Level Games. The Vancouver-based studio will join Nintendo’s first-party teams like Retro...
Hitman is the one series doing sequels right
One of the byproducts of the current trend of diminishing returns is that games don’t age as rapidly as they once did. A four-year-old...
GamesBeat Decides the game of the year
Nothing exemplifies the power of the human spirit through a tumultuous time like arguing about video games. And thankfully, GamesBeat is comprised of four...
What 50 hours in Astro’s Playroom taught me about video games
I’m weird. By most accounts, you can beat Astro’s Playroom — the PlayStation 5’s glorified pack-in tech demo — in about four hours. I’ve...
Jeff Grubb’s top 10 games of 2020
Unlike many of you, I didn’t suddenly have a lot more free time for games in 2020. I already worked from home, and my...
Blue-collar games were great in 2020 because they’re about perseverance
Before writing about games, I had a lot of different jobs. I sorted packages at a FedEx facility, I built delivery pallets at a...
2020 was the year of connected social games
The pandemic happened to all of us. And while the early sentiment that we were all in this together fell apart in the United...