Yoan Fanise tells why Road 96 is DigixArt’s next big game
Yoan Fanise‘s indie DigixArt studio has made memorable games like Valiant Hearts, 11-11 Memories Retold, and Lost in Harmony. And Fanise recently revealed at...
GamesBeat Rewind: 2020’s biggest stories
You can’t say that 2020 was boring. For better or (often) for worse, we still had plenty to talk about when it came to...
Blue-collar games were great in 2020 because they’re about perseverance
Before writing about games, I had a lot of different jobs. I sorted packages at a FedEx facility, I built delivery pallets at a...
2020 was the year of connected social games
The pandemic happened to all of us. And while the early sentiment that we were all in this together fell apart in the United...
GamesBeat reviews editor Mike Minotti’s top 10 games of 2020
This was an awful year, but … at least we got some good games? I’m not sure that escaping into digital fantasy worlds is...
Twin Mirror review — A journalist uncovers a small town’s crisis
In Twin Mirror, the latest narrative game from Dontnod Entertainment, you play as a journalist whose mission is to uncover the truth. When it...
Tannenberg interview: Capturing World War I on the Eastern Front
When World War I comes up in popular culture, the Eastern Front gets far less attention than the battlefields of the West. We hear...
The DeanBeat: My favorite games of 2020
Many people’s memories of 2020 will reflect a horrible year. But games offered us an escape from that reality. They let us maintain social...
How Riot Games is gunning for its second big esport with Valorant
Riot Games spent a decade building League of Legends into a huge esports phenomenon. And with the first-person shooter game Valorant, the company hopes...
Spellbreak interview: The challenges and benefits of launching in a pandemic
Launching online games is not an easy task, and doing so during a pandemic throws bigger, nasty curveballs into the process. So when Proletariat...