GamesBeat reviews editor Mike Minotti’s 10 top of 2017
When it comes to the number of great games released, this has been one of the best years ever. I had the easiest time...
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus had the best writing of 2017
Writing in games is strange. It’s bigger and more complicated than writing for a film, a novel, or a song. Games can convey a...
What Remains of Edith Finch has 2017’s most outstanding gaming moment
This year’s video games have gifted us with an array of stunning moments, like punching Nazis or scaling Hyrule’s highest mountains or spinning frantically...
Minority Media bets on VR arcade games to survive
Virtual reality developers have to be creative to survive the VR desert, where sales haven’t kept up with expectations. So Vander Caballero, founder of Minority Media and...
GamesBeat Rewind 2017: The year single-player games became chores
One of the great debates of 2017 is the “death of the single-player game,” a conversation that flared up when EA cancelled Visceral’s untitled...
The Non-Award for Best Tech That’s Too Much Work to Set Up goes to VR
While everyone else is giving awards to Zelda and PlayerUnknown’s Battegrounds, our GamesBeat Rewind year-end event has the guts to hand out silly accolades to the...
GamesBeat Decides game of the year part 3
Another day? Well, we’ve got another GamesBeat Decides game of the year podcast. For part 3, we’re digging into the following categories: Standout Moment...
GamesBeat Rewind 2017: The most overlooked games of the year
Sometimes, it seems like a Sisyphean task to try to keep up with all the games that come out every year. And that’s not...
The ‘How Do You Screw That Up’ Award goes to Electronic Arts
You would think that making new Star Wars games in the era of annual film releases from Disney is a can’t-lose scenario, but you weren’t...
Horizon: Zero Dawn is the Freshest Gaming Universe
Sequels tend to dominate gaming. I’ve never had a problem with that because, unlike films, game sequels often feature fundamental changes compared to their...