Categories Posted inin Business The RetroBeat: Zelda’s Oracle games deserve some Link’s Awakening-style love Posted byby Mike Minotti September 26, 2019 3 min Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening remake for the Switch is the retro gaming event of the month. It’s a fantastic re-imagining of...
Categories Posted inin Gameplay You don’t play Untitled Goose Game; you perform it Posted byby Jeff Grubb September 26, 2019 2 min I’ve never had much luck playing the bad guy in a video game. The “renegade” option might look like fun, but I can never...
Categories Posted inin Gameplay Oculus CTO John Carmack: Our social missteps are ‘kinda embarrassing’ Posted byby Jeff Grubb September 26, 2019 2 min Oculus VR and its parent company Facebook have not yet released the defining social experience for virtual reality. And you might think that is...
Categories Posted inin Gameplay Star Wars: Triple Force Friday features D-O droid and other tech toys Posted byby Dean Takahashi September 26, 2019 3 min On October 4, Disney is launching Triple Force Friday, a retail event for products for its triple entertainment offering this fall: the Star Wars:...
Categories Posted inin Business The Last of Us Part II: How Naughty Dog plans to surpass our expectations Posted byby Dean Takahashi September 26, 2019 11 min The Last of Us Part II is finally coming to us on February 21, 2020. And I couldn’t be more excited to play this...
Categories Posted inin Business Hearthstone is shaking things up by bringing fan-favorite cards out of retirement Posted byby Mike Minotti September 26, 2019 2 min Look out, insects! Ragnaros the Firelord, N’Zoth, and 21 other cards are coming out of Hearthstone‘s Wild format and into Standard for a limited...
Categories Posted inin Gameplay ESL and Dreamhack team up with Nielsen for better esports tracking Posted byby Mike Minotti September 26, 2019 1 min Two of the biggest esports organizers in the world, ESL and Dreamhack, announced today that they are entering into a “comprehensive epsort measurement agreement”...
Categories Posted inin Gameplay Facebook is doubling down on Oculus Quest — for better and worse Posted byby GamesBeat September 26, 2019 4 min As an Oculus Quest owner, I should be thrilled that Facebook’s Oculus Connect 6 keynote yesterday was so heavily Quest-focused. After a series of...
Categories Posted inin Business Neil Druckmann — The Last of Us: Part II is our longest and most ambitious game Posted byby Dean Takahashi September 26, 2019 4 min Neil Druckmann said that Naughty Dog’s upcoming The Last of Us: Part II will be the studio’s longest and most ambitious game by the...
Categories Posted inin Business The Last of Us Part II hands-on preview — The fear of losing someone Posted byby Dean Takahashi September 26, 2019 9 min I was fearful that I wouldn’t be able to play The Last of Us Part II, the sequel to my favorite game, for a...