Hitman 3 speedrun: How I beat the Dubai stage in 24 seconds
I consider my first time through a Hitman stage to be the canonical run. That’s the real thing. Discovering a location and all of...
Amazon Web Services’ insights into gaming for 2021
No one has a bird’s eye view of the game industry like Amazon. The company’s Amazon Web Services division provides online services for 90%...
Rival Peak interactive reality show hits 22 million views
The game-like interactive reality show Rival Peak has turned into a hit on Facebook, with more than 22 million views of the first six...
Hitman 1 and 2 players probably shouldn’t play Hitman 3 yet
Hitman 3 is the excellent culmination of developer IO Interactive’s modern trilogy of assassination simulators, but fans should probably hold off on playing it...
Hearthstone gets 35 new cards on January 21
Blizzard Entertainment announced today that a new miniset of 35 cards, called Darkmoon Races, is coming to Hearthstone on January. Hearthstone is the most...
Hitman 3 review — A world made entirely out of Chekhov’s guns
Hitman works because developer IO Interactive builds the games as predictable and rigid machines. And as players, we control the key to this machine...
The D20 Beat: King’s Bounty II heralds what should be a fantastic year for RPGs
I find it amusing that a the resurrection of a beloved retro game is itself retro now. I’m talking about King’s Bounty: The Legend,...
GamesBeat Decides: Sonic’s best (and worst) friends
We had so much fun making a tier list of Nintendo’s consoles last week that Jeff Grubb and I are back at it again...
The RetroBeat: River City Girls is a beat-’em-up delight
I enjoyed my holiday break because it gave me time to play a lot more games than normal. And after spending about 20 hours...
NPD reveals the best-selling games of 2020 in the U.S.
Last year was massive for game sales due to more people staying home during the pandemic. With entertainment at a premium, familiar gaming brands...