The DeanBeat: The high tide for powerful storytelling in games
Storytelling in games feels like it’s at a high tide. After playing Naughty Dog’s masterful Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End, I felt like I...
Kerbal Space Program blasts off to PlayStation 4 on July 12
PlayStation 4 owners better brush up on their rocket science. Sony announced today that Kerbal Space Program, a game that has you designing, launching, and flying...
Adam Boyes, PlayStation third-party boss, is leaving Sony
Sony is losing one of its top executive faces. PlayStation third-party relations vice president Adam Boyes revealed he is exiting Sony Interactive Entertainment. He is returning to game development, which is where he started before joining Sony in April 2012.
Chinese gamers are about to embrace the television alongside smartphones and PC
China already has the largest gaming market on the planet, but most of that is on PC and smartphones — especially since the country...
John Romero isn’t done with the first-person shooter genre he helped create
John Romero made a name for himself in game development as one of the original creators of Wolfenstein, Doom, and Quake. He helped establish...
AMD launches driver update to fix Radeon RX 480 power-consumption problems
Your new AMD graphics card is probably using a few too many watts, and you can put a stop to that. AMD released the Radeon...
Tera’s Aces Wild update gives players quality-of-life improvements
Now you have a place to store all of those Hello Kitty costumes. En Masse Entertainment announced today that its free-to-play massively multiplayer online...
Pokémon Go made me late for work
It’s 9:15 a.m., and as I was sitting down to write this post, my iPhone buzzed. I looked, and a Pidgey sat on my...
GamesBeat giveaway: Star Trek Online Temporal Agent Starter Packs
We’re giving away some codes that Star Trek fans should covet. Star Trek: Online’s newest expansion, Agents of Yesterday, launches today for PC. Although...
Pokémon Go rockets to the top of the App Store — and it’s already making bank
I think we all remember how the theme song to the Pokémon animated series goes: ♫I want to be the very most downloaded app, like...