How Counterplay Games approached Godfall for PS5 and PC
Pretty soon, you’ll be able to play as one of the last of the Valorian Knights, the heroes of the looter-slasher, action-role-playing game Godfall....
Language learning game Drops hits 25 million users
Drops made a game out of language learning, and it’s paying off. The company said it has hit 25 million users and reached a...
Half-Life: Alyx mod puts BioShock’s Rapture into VR
The latest jaw-dropping Half-Life: Alyx mod brings the iconic world of BioShock’s Rapture to VR for the first time. The mod from developer wim.buytaert.1988 acts...
Unity promises initial OpenXR platform support by the end of 2020
When the Khronos Group released OpenXR — a royalty-free standard designed to make cross-platform VR and AR app development easier, supporting multiple platforms —...
RetroBeat: 5 other games Nintendo needs to finally bring to the U.S.
Nintendo announced this week that it is finally giving the original Fire Emblem an English translation. Yay! But I hope that Nintendo doesn’t stop...
Rachel Rubin Franklin leaves Facebook to work on EA’s Positive Play push
Rachel Rubin Franklin has come full circle. She worked on Electronic Arts’ The Sims 4 franchise for years, leaving for Facebook to run social...
Xbox Series X’s backward compatibility is good for live-service games
Gamers are preparing for a leap into the next generation in November with the Xbox Series X and the PlayStation 5, but many of...
The DeanBeat: Our next game event focuses on growth and the metaverse
The game industry is so full of surprises, like Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez drawing more than 4.5 million views for her hilarious get-out-the-vote Twitch livestream...
Immortals: Fenyx Rising hands-on — How it stands out from Zelda’s shadow
Immortals: Fenyx Rising is both ambitious and shameless. This Ubisoft title comes out on December 3 for just about every platform you can imagine:...
A survivor’s view of a game developer’s suicide
Eleven months ago, veteran game developer Matt McDonald died from suicide. His wife, Tammy McDonald, has to pick up the pieces and raise her...