How Satoru Iwata’s dedication brought Pokémon to the West
Without Satoru Iwata, the Pokémon phenomenon might never have left Japan. The former Nintendo president, who sadly passed away earlier this year, played a huge part in bringing the...
PlayStation 4 hacked to run Linux, Pokémon
The PlayStation 4 and Xbox One systems are just PCs, and now hardware hackers have started doing some very cool things with at least...
Our 5 most anticipated games of 2016
2015 is behind us. December 30 and December 31 represent something closer to a transition period where we can start looking ahead. Let’s do...
Valve: DDoS cyberattack caused the Steam caching catastrophe (cachetastrophe?)
On Christmas, the Steam digital gaming store and community broke and caused all kinds of strange errors. Now, Valve is coming out to explain more...
2015’s biggest moments in esports
In the past several years, and for what will likely be several more, every year has been — and will continue to be —...
Firefall developer Red 5 Studios denies that it didn’t pay employees
What is going on at Red 5 Studios?
Reports on Monday indicated that the developer behind the PC massively multiplayer online shooter Firefall failed to meet its employee payroll on Christmas day. However, Red 5 now tells GamesBeat that this is untrue.
Watch ‘Star Wars’ droid BB-8 destroy villages in Besiege
Star Wars is everywhere — and that includes medieval destruction simulators. The soccer-ball-like droid BB-8 is one of the best new characters in The Force...
To handle VR graphics, gaming PCs have to be 7 times more powerful
The folks at Nvidia, the world’s largest maker of stand-alone graphics chips, are good at numbers. So I talked to them recently about their...
The overlooked games of 2015: Mad Max
You’re driving along, looking for scrap to build that one cool part you need to really complete your car, and off on the horizon,...
Japanese developers vote Splatoon as their game of 2015
It’s interesting to see which games get seasoned developers excited. Japanese website 4Gamer asked 133 industry figures to pick their favorite game of 2015, and Nintendo’s...