Matterfall review — a hectic and challenging take on side-scroller shooting
Matterfall combines the twin-stick shooter with the action-platformer. It’s like Geometry Wars and Mega Man got their chocolate and peanut butter all mixed up....
Critical Ops hits 25 million downloads as mobile shooter preps for esports and Asia (update)
Developer Critical Force is declaring mission success. Its mobile first-person shooter Critical Ops reached 25 million downloads in two years and boasts 860,000 daily...
Peter Molyneux’s long trail back to PC games
Peter Molyneux is a legendary game designer, creator of the first “god game” and maker of hits such as Populous, Black & White, and...
The DeanBeat: Intel’s 2014 Gamergate mistake paved the path for Google’s memo mess
Google is going through the throes of a diversity controversy over its firing of James Damore, the white man who wrote a diversity memo...
Overwolf acquires Clash Royale fan site StatsRoyale.com
Overwolf has enabled PC developers to build apps that enhance their games, and now it is moving into the mobile game market with the...
GameMine offers subscription games tied to direct carrier billing
Apple’s App Store and Android’s Google Play pretty much crushed the old system where carriers sold games direct to mobile users. But GameMine has...
Watch Hearthstone’s Lich King respond to fan comments and GamesBeat disciples
Maybe that Lich King isn’t such a bad fellow after all. Sure, he want to enslave the world with an undead army and all...
Hearthstone’s Knights of the Frozen Throne expansion is live
Move over, dinosaurs. Death Knights have come to Hearthstone. The digital card game giant’s Knights of the Frozen Throne expansion is now live on...
Discord starts testing video chat and screen sharing with 5% of its gamers
Discord has begun testing video chat and screen sharing — two of the most-requested features from its audience of free voice and text chat...
Ristar doesn’t have Sonic’s legacy, but it does have Sega Forever’s blessing
Sega Forever is the gaming icon’s initiative to bring its back catalog to iOS and Android devices, and now Sega has revealed that Ristar...