GamesBeat Rewind: 2020’s biggest stories
You can’t say that 2020 was boring. For better or (often) for worse, we still had plenty to talk about when it came to...
The RetroBeat: 2020’s biggest retro gaming moments
I have to be honest: 2020 wasn’t as a big year for retro gaming as some of the other ones we’ve had in recent...
Blue-collar games were great in 2020 because they’re about perseverance
Before writing about games, I had a lot of different jobs. I sorted packages at a FedEx facility, I built delivery pallets at a...
IMVU: Making the coin of the realm for the metaverse
IMVU has been a relatively quiet and unnoticed company in the online gaming and social media worlds. But the company did something recently that...
2020 was the year of connected social games
The pandemic happened to all of us. And while the early sentiment that we were all in this together fell apart in the United...
GamesBeat reviews editor Mike Minotti’s top 10 games of 2020
This was an awful year, but … at least we got some good games? I’m not sure that escaping into digital fantasy worlds is...
Twin Mirror review — A journalist uncovers a small town’s crisis
In Twin Mirror, the latest narrative game from Dontnod Entertainment, you play as a journalist whose mission is to uncover the truth. When it...
Tannenberg interview: Capturing World War I on the Eastern Front
When World War I comes up in popular culture, the Eastern Front gets far less attention than the battlefields of the West. We hear...
PlayStation and Nintendo spent 2020 vying for TV game ad crown
PlayStation and Nintendo are consistently two of the biggest gaming-industry spenders on TV advertising, and as such are often the gaming brands with the...
The DeanBeat: My favorite games of 2020
Many people’s memories of 2020 will reflect a horrible year. But games offered us an escape from that reality. They let us maintain social...