Small towns are building esports meccas
For centuries, Katowice was a mining town. The first settlers were craftsmen in the 18th century, who arrived in the lowlands of Southern Poland...
How Cloudhead Games and Valve worked together on Aperture Hand Lab
Over the last five years Denny Unger and his partners at Cloudhead Games would talk about possible VR projects with some of the world’s...
Apex Legends dev Respawn admits it messed up Iron Crown
Respawn screwed up. Apex Legends has a new event called Iron Crown that introduces a number of exciting cosmetics. But one problem: The business...
Oculus Quest keeps improving in important but screenshot-defying ways
Like almost everyone who writes about virtual reality, I struggle on a daily basis with the knowledge that the new medium defies easy descriptions...
Microsoft Flight Simulator’s Insider Program is go for takeoff
Microsoft Flight Simulator is taking to the skies in 2020, but the publisher is sharing details about the current state of development beginning today....
The RetroBeat: Strider is the craziest 16-bit game I never played
When I turned on the Genesis Mini that Sega sent me, I first went for Mega Man: The Wily Wars (for reasons I’ve detailed...
Sam Barlow’s Telling Lies thriller game debuts on August 23
Sam Barlow and Annapurna Interactive announced that Telling Lies, an interactive investigation thriller game, debuts on August 23 on the PC, Mac, and iOS...
The DeanBeat: The gray areas of video game violence and addiction
When President Donald Trump met with video game leaders about violence in games in March 2018, the industry worried he would use games as...
Origin PC EVO16-S review — Awesome RTX graphics with a noisy fan
The funny folks at Origin PC sent me a laptop with a custom Cuphead panel on the cover. So what the heck. I tried...
Tetris 99’s weekend event is a Fire Emblem: Three Houses crossover
Tetris 99 is getting a new Grand Prix event next weekend. Beginning August 22 at around 10 p.m. Pacific time, players can participate in...