The DeanBeat: Prey is a game where the developers decided to torture gamers
Bethesda’s Prey turned out to be a surprisingly engaging game for me. It reminded me of BioShock and its progression system where I became...
The dread, the separatism, and the coming collapse of America that inspired Far Cry 5
Dan Hay, creative director of Ubisoft’s Far Cry 5, said that the Far Cry franchise is always about the combination of chaos and beauty. His team...
Far Cry 5 focuses on a terrifyingly realistic armed cult
Ubisoft revealed today that Far Cry 5 will be about one of the most disturbing realities about American extremism: an armed religious cult that...
Ranking the best of ParadoxCon
When I first started covering Paradox games six years ago, they were a developer of complicated strategy games with much love in their niche...
Nintendo Switch and Pokémon bolster GameStop’s first quarter
GameStop reported $2.05 billion in sales today at the end of its first quarter of 2017, exceeding expectations due to the high sales of...
Stugan brings in 15 teams for its 2017 game accelerator class
It’s into the woods again with Stugan, a Swedish game accelerator that’s in its third year. Stugan announced its 2017 participants earlier today, which...
Superdata: PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds made $34 million in April
You don’t kill 99 digital strangers without making a few bucks. PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is making bank. We already knew this because the Battle Royale-like online multiplayer...
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds update improves shaky performance
One of the most popular games on Steam right now is getting a lot of welcome improvements. PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has a new update that’s available...
MXGP3 and MotoGP 17 raise the bar on realistic racing simulations
I got some hands-on experience with the motocross racing simulations MXGP3 and MotoGP 17 yesterday. I’m not sure what I accomplished, other than proving...
Why Far Cry 5’s Mountain West extremism enables Ubisoft to criticize America
Ubisoft is going to screw up Far Cry 5 — at least as far as my expectations are concerned. But it can only fail because...