Summer Games Done Quick 2018 raises over $2.12 million for Doctors Without Borders
The speedrunning marathon Summer Games Done Quick 2018 just wrapped up a week of great (and fast) gaming that streamed live on Twitch, and...
VR hit Beat Saber is getting a multiplayer update
Music-based rhythm games are great. Some of my favorite gaming memories involve being huddled around plastic guitars and drum sets in Rock Band or...
Elijah Wood: Transference’s Hollywood collaboration comes from a ‘genuine place’
For some, the phrase “Hollywood and video games” doesn’t have positive connotations due to a history of bad licensed products, canceled projects, and terrible...
GamesBeat Decides 86: Hammond is very good
On this week’s GamesBeat Decides podcast, hosts Jeffrey Grubb and Mike Minotti talk about Summer Games Done Quick, Mario Tennis Aces online, and more....
Oculus details its Varifocal half-dome VR prototype
Last month, we reported on a talk by Douglas Lanman of Oculus Research (now Facebook’s Reality Labs) from the 2018 SID Display Week event. The fascinating...
May 2018’s top 10 Minecraft Marketplace creations: that city livin’
A report claims that Microsoft is going to implement a new feature into Xbox One called Xbox Community Content that will bring mods and...
Battlefield V feels so good, but I’m playing it wrong
The Battlefield V closed alpha test went live yesterday, and this is giving a number of fans their first chance to try the World...
Virtual Fighting Championship is a first-person VR Street Fighter
Competitive gamers have dreamed about a compelling first-person fighting game ever since Capcom redefined side-scrolling fighting with Street Fighter II. Now Australian indie developer...
Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy is still weird on anything except PlayStation
I’m old enough to remember the PlayStation ads where a man in a Crash Bandicoot suit showed up to yell at Nintendo’s headquarters. For...
The DeanBeat: Where game developers still dare to bet big
In 2010 and 2011, the development team at Guerrilla Games in Amsterdam surveyed the landscape of video games. They had just shipped the sci-fi...