2019’s best game for new experiences: Outer Wilds
Outer Wilds delivered one of the freshest gaming experiences of 2019. It’s about a solar system-spanning mystery, and you don’t unravel it through combat...
The Witcher 3’s resurgence proves that games have changed
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is one of the most-played games on Steam this week. The role-playing adventure debuted May 1, 2015, but it...
From Minecraft to Auto Chess: The 29 games that define the 2010s
At GamesBeat, we like to focus on the business, innovation, and technology of games. So we’re bringing that approach to our games of the...
GamesBeat’s reviews editor Mike Minotti’s top 10 games of 2019
This was an interesting gaming year for me. I don’t know if there’s a single game on this list that I would consider a...
2019’s 5 most exhilarating gaming moments
I don’t play games to beat them. Or, at least, that’s what I’m telling myself as I race to finish as much as I...
Steam’s top-selling VR games of 2019 include Beat Saber, Boneworks, and Superhot
Valve revealed Steam’s Best of 2019 lists, including the top-selling VR games of the year. The section is split into platinum, gold, silver and...
Oculus Quest back-ordered until February
New orders of the Oculus Quest headset ordered on Facebook’s Oculus website aren’t expected to ship until mid-February in the United Sates. Facebook’s standalone...
2019 was the year things got weird for video games
The video games industry is odd. This is a business where the leading companies regularly reset their market share every five-to-seven years. But over...
2019 game industry ad spend: a quieter year
At iSpot.tv, we found that the game industry spent an estimated $319.6 million on television ads in 2019 (January 1 through December 8), a...
Early VR hit Vertigo is getting a remaster, with improvements from its sequel
Vertigo is a popular VR game from 2016, and Zulubo Productions’ Zach Tsiakalis-Brown said it will get a remaster and release with updates and...