After brush with death, game journalist Scott Jones creates Heavily Pixelated podcast
GamesBeat: There are some good shows out there, though. Jones: Honestly, I’ve fallen in love with podcasts in the last two or three years,...
Kixeye enlists players to provide customer support for Battle Pirates
Kixeye launched its Battle Pirates strategy game on Facebook seven years ago, but the game still has a loyal following of 100,000 players. The...
Semblance review — this wobbly platformer sticks the landing
Semblance’s world wobbles and jiggles, but it’s a solid puzzle-platformer in a whimsical world that packs in tiny moments of triumph. It’s indie studio...
Nexon is bringing Dynasty Warriors: Unleashed to Japan
Mobile and PC game publisher Nexon announced today that it is bringing Dynasty Warriors: Unleashed to Japan. Dynasty Warriors: Unleashed is the No. 658 ranked game...
Vampyr is adding new difficulty modes for experienced and story-seeking players
DontNod Entertainment announced today that it is adding two new difficulty modes to its action role-playing game Vampyr, which came out for PlayStation 4,...
The DeanBeat: Vacation gaming with the extended family
For me, summer used to be time to spend outdoors. Big video games didn’t debut when kids like me were growing up and going...
Mobcrush’s livestream multicasting tool can reach 750 million people
Mobcrush started out as a mobile game streaming company that let people stream from a smartphone. But it recently added its Mobcam tool to...
How I discovered the therapeutic power of VR — by accident
Ask anyone that has experienced a true, high-production virtual reality experience and nearly all can remember our “first time.” The immersive nature of the...
The Sojourn is a dimension-shifting puzzler in a fantasy world
Indie studio Shifting Tides’s debut game The Sojourn is both idyllic and sinister. In order to solve its puzzles and unravel a deeper story,...
Improbable gets $50 million from China’s NetEase to engineer giant game worlds
British game infrastructure company Improbable keeps doing the improbable. Today, the company says it has raised an additional $50 million in funding from Chinese...