The DeanBeat: PlayStation 5, Blizzard’s blunder, and Harold Ryan’s big bet
Thanks for reading The DeanBeat and supporting our independent journalism. This is a good time to announce that our GamesBeat Summit 2020 web site...
How criminals are playing the gaming industry and what you can do about it (VB Live)
Presented by Akamai Technologies There’s real money to be stolen from games and gamers, and the variety and number of threats just keep growing....
Killer Queen Black had to adapt to leave the arcade
Killer Queen Black is launching today on Nintendo Switch and PC. It’s a port of the 5-on-5 arcade hit Killer Queen that has players...
What to expect at 2019’s Made by Google event: Pixel 4, Pixelbook Go, Nest Mini, and more
On October 15 at 10 a.m. Eastern (7 a.m. Pacific), Google will kick off its third annual “Made by Google” hardware event. For the...
How Smite esports helps keep 30 million players engaged with the game
Building up the esports infrastructure for Smite’s esports community has been a lot of work. Over six years, the community of players has grown...
Star Citizen Alpha 3.7 adds caves for spelunking
Cloud Imperium Games has released its quarterly update of the alpha version of its Star Citizen science fiction game universe, adding caves where players...
Nintendo Switch Brain Age followup gets January launch in Europe
Dr. Kawashima’s Brain Training for Nintendo Switch is heading to Europe. Nintendo confirmed that the Brain Age followup is launching January 3 in that...
You should put all of your game captures on Google Photos
The Nintendo Switch limits how many video clips you can have at any one time. Even if you still have space on your SD...
How Google Stadia’s ‘negative latency’ might work
Google Stadia is going to feel more responsive than local hardware … eventually. At least, Stadia engineering boss Madj Bakar is making that claim...
AI startups stand out at Comcast Lift Labs Accelerator 2019
This evening in Philadelphia, Comcast NBCUniversal’s Lift Labs Accelerator showcased the 11 companies in its second-ever class during a demo day in front of...