League of Legends gets its first million-dollar pro: Faker
Arguably the best player in one of the world’s most popular games has just surpassed a huge benchmark in tournament earnings. Lee “Faker” Sang-hyeok...
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds lag fix is incoming
Your experience in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds may improve soon. Bluehole announced today in a post on Twitter that the studio is making some adjustments to...
Vanquish on PC punishes players with more damage at higher framerates
Game difficulty modes should come in Easy, Medium, and 144 frames per second. Vanquish, an excellent 2010 shooter for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3...
Ultima Online vets aim for emergent MMO gameplay with Legends of Aria
Most massively multiplayer online role-playing games take their cues from World of Warcraft: lots of quests and storylines that the designers mete out to...
GamesBeat weekly roundup: Overwatch turns 1, and Far Cry comes to America
Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, Rockstar delayed Red Dead Redemption 2, and we went hands-on with Middle-earth: Shadow of War. Have...
The DeanBeat: Prey is a game where the developers decided to torture gamers
Bethesda’s Prey turned out to be a surprisingly engaging game for me. It reminded me of BioShock and its progression system where I became...
The dread, the separatism, and the coming collapse of America that inspired Far Cry 5
Dan Hay, creative director of Ubisoft’s Far Cry 5, said that the Far Cry franchise is always about the combination of chaos and beauty. His team...
Far Cry 5 focuses on a terrifyingly realistic armed cult
Ubisoft revealed today that Far Cry 5 will be about one of the most disturbing realities about American extremism: an armed religious cult that...
Ranking the best of ParadoxCon
When I first started covering Paradox games six years ago, they were a developer of complicated strategy games with much love in their niche...
Nintendo Switch and Pokémon bolster GameStop’s first quarter
GameStop reported $2.05 billion in sales today at the end of its first quarter of 2017, exceeding expectations due to the high sales of...