The DeanBeat: After all these years, Hollywood still doesn’t get games
NBCUniversal made a big mistake this week by deciding to shut down the game publishing business that Chris Heatherly spent almost three years building....
Minecraft finally gets in-game character creator
Minecraft is finally going to make it easy to make the blocky version of yourself. Microsoft is adding the Minecraft Character Creator to the...
NZXT H510i PC case review — Beloved for a good reason
The worst thing about the NZXT H-series of PC enclosures is that they are so popular. It stings a little to have a rig...
Niko Partners: Asia cloud gaming to reach $3 billion and 60 million gamers by 2023
Cloud gaming platform and service revenue in Asia will grow from $270 million and three million consumers in 2019 to $3 billion and 60...
Verizon and NFL give 2 game devs $400,000 each to launch 5G games Super Bowl
Verizon and the NFL have named two winners in the Verizon 5G NFL Mobile Gaming Challenge. The winning teams will get $400,000 each to...
The RetroBeat: Demon’s Crest is the best SNES game on Switch that you haven’t played
Super Nintendo games are on the Switch, hooray! The timing is a bit bad for me, since I have so many new games to...
Steam Labs gets even more experiments and updates to aid discovery
Valve is continuing to build on its Steam Labs experiments with rapid iteration and prototyping. Today, the company is launching a number of new...
Twitch acquires IGDB to better index the games broadcasters are playing
Twitch now owns and operates the Internet Games Database. Amazon’s livestreaming company acquired the IGDB to improve how people can search for games on...
Facebook will bring AR ads to the News Feed fall 2019
Would you interact with a digital ad featuring polls, games, augmented reality (AR), or some Frankensteinian combination of the three? Facebook seems to think...
Skillprint studies how you play games to unlock your hidden skills
Play games, unlock your inner superpowers, and win at life. That’s the idea behind Skillprint, a startup that uses advanced analytics to study how...