Gamers speak out at WHO’s classification of gaming addiction as mental health disorder
Gamers are fighting back against the World Health Organization (WHO), which said yesterday that “gaming disorder” will appear in a new draft of the...
Hitman 2 gives players more information and bigger crowds to hide in
The 2016 reboot of Hitman was one of my favorite games in a strong 2016, and I’m excited to get back into that world...
Owlchemy Labs CEO and studio director leave to start a new company
Owlchemy Labs created one of virtual reality’s first big successes with its cheeky game, Job Simulator. Now cofounder and CEO Alex Schwartz has announced...
Tim Willits: Rage 2 signals the ‘golden age of id’
GamesBeat: I don’t remember exactly why, but a fair amount of people were dissatisfied with the first Rage in some way. Did you latch...
Déraciné is Dark Souls studio’s exploration of VR, made to surprise fans
Best known for creating the "fantastically demented" action games Dark Souls and Bloodborne, From Software's Hidetaka Miyazaki was motivated by a desire to learn about VR -- and create something surprising for fans -- which resulted in last week's unexpected announcement of Déraciné for Sony's PlayStation VR.
PUBG gets its first discount just in time for the third map
For the first time since its debut in March 2017, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is selling at a discount on Steam. The excellent battle royale shooter...
Why Warner Bros. keeps picking up new games and studios
GamesBeat: Whereas Ubisoft has seven studios working on the same game. Haddad: We’re probably somewhere in between those. Talent continues to be top of...
How players will get in the groove with Call of Duty: Black Ops 4
GamesBeat: As far as the story content in multiplayer, what are you telling players there? Right now it’s not very clear. You have the...
Ubisoft’s Skull & Bones is a surprisingly good pirate naval battle game
Skull & Bones started out as a relatively mediocre and little-noticed title when Ubisoft showed the game at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) game...
Arca’s Path hands-on — navigating a sci-fi fairy tale by sight
Arca’s Path gently guides you through an alien world full of soft colors and exotic plants — and you’ll never have to pick up...