GamesBeat Rewind 2017: the 10 best strategy games
2017 was a strange, though good, year for strategy games. After the sensational 2016, with five major releases and some fascinating indie games, this...
Call of Duty: WWII — Here’s the ritual of hitting Prestige in multiplayer
I’ve been pretty religious about playing Call of Duty multiplayer every year. But with Call of Duty: WWII, I managed to hit the highest level...
Drawfee releases 5 titles from its livestreamed game jam
Drawfee is normally a zany art channel on YouTube, but earlier this month, it hosted a two-day game jam sponsored by the anime hosting...
The DeanBeat: 10 wildly inaccurate and predictable predictions for gaming in 2018
The ritual has arrived again. It’s time for me to make wildly inaccurate predictions about the future of games. This is always embarrassing for...
GamesBeat Rewind 2017: Hellblade’s Senua is the year’s best new gaming character
I couldn’t quite get enough votes for Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice as Game of the Year at GamesBeat. But my colleagues took pity on me...
Watch VR reunite a group of former N64 developers
Presented by Intel You might not recognize the name, but chances are good that a lot of the folks at Phaser Lock Interactive worked...
GamesBeat PC gaming editor Jeff Grubb’s top 10 games of 2017
This has been such a spectacular year for games, and that affected me in an unintuitive way. As I was putting together this list,...
Cuphead is the most beautiful game of 2017
We’re at a point where you don’t have to play to the strengths of the consoles or PC graphics cards to get great visual...
GamesBeat reporter Stephanie Chan’s best indie games of 2017
It’s been painful for me to choose the “best” indie games I’ve played this year, mostly because calling something the “best” is a somewhat...
The IndieBeat: Mike Bithell chats about writing, the games industry, and making players cry
It’s been over five years since developer Mike Bithell launched Thomas Was Alone, which sold over a million copies and won a British Academy Games Award....