Nintendo Switch Online’s NES games are getting a rewind feature
Nintendo announced today that a rewind feature is coming to the Nintendo Switch Online’s collection of NES games on July 17. Many older games...
Sensor Tower: Pokémon Go made $2.65 billion in three years
Pokémon Go first launched on July 6, 2016, so Niantic‘s mobile game has now been out for three years. And the location-based experience has...
How female characters in FIFA led to a diversity movement at EA
Not many people can trace the kind of impact that Katie Scott has had as a game designer at Electronic Arts. She considered herself...
Apple re-releases Texas Hold’em ahead of App Store’s 11th anniversary
Apple’s App Store will celebrate its 11th anniversary later this week, but the company says it’s celebrating the Store’s 10th year by re-releasing a...
Sensor Tower: Android and iOS apps made $39 billion in first half of 2019
Apps on the Apple App Store and Google Play earned $39 billion in the first half of 2019, according to market analyst Sensor Tower....
Pokémon Sword and Shield now have Gigantamax on top of Dynamax for some reason
A new trailer for Pokémon Sword and Shield has revealed several new characters and Pokémon for the Switch games that come out on November...
How Brendan Greene created the PUBG phenomenon and then moved on to something new
Brendan Greene had a singular vision to bring battle royale to the video game market. He started as a modder, and he was a...
The RetroBeat: The best retro speedruns from Summer Games Done Quick 2019
Summer Games Done Quick managed to break an event record last week, raising over $3 million for Doctors Without Borders. The show featured speedruns...
The DeanBeat: How Jordan Mechner shepherded Prince of Persia across 30 years
Time means nothing when you’ve created something special. Jordan Mechner launched Prince of Persia in 1989, when he was 25. And 30 years later,...
David Cage and Josef Fares on the future of game storytelling
Joseph Fares and David Cage are game directors who love storytelling. They have created memorable games that players rave about. But they share little...