PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Family Dinner highlights: The Battle of Three Armies
Every Friday night, folks from around the games industry get together for the Family Chicken Dinner Invitational Tournament on Twitch. This is a broadcast...
Game Boss interview: Nexon CEO preaches focus on players, not monetization
What I mean by that—I’ll give you an example. I once had a conversation with a founder of a company, a western company, years...
ProBeat: All laptops should have touchscreens
When I was shopping for my last laptop, I made a conscious effort to exclude all models with touchscreens. It was an easy way...
GamesBeat weekly roundup: Playing the SNES Classic, and Nintendo discovers PayPal
Hello and welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, Nintendo finally adopts PayPal support, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds’ first tournament was a success, and the World Electronic...
The DeanBeat: Strategic zoom for the game industry
In the past nine years, I’ve written around 10,000 stories on games. In this column, I’m going to mention quotes from about 10 of...
Hob and the art of Runic Games
Presented by Intel Defining a visual style and language can be as important to a game as its main character, levels, and challenges. The...
PC Gaming Weekly: The RPG sales surge
I have role-playing games on my mind. This shouldn’t surprise anyone who knows me. In my 10-plus years covering videos games, I’ve been a...
Call of Duty: WWII closed beta gameplay — watch us play the throwback shooter
The next Call of Duty is nearly upon us, and Activision has rolled out a promotional beta for the military shooter to get people...
Cuphead hands-on: My 26 minutes of shame with an old-time cartoon game
I suck at Cuphead. Let’s get this out of the way. But in my defense, the run-and-gun platformer from Studio MDHR and Microsoft is...
Overwatch’s Mercy is getting massive changes and losing her mass resurrection
Blizzard announced massive changes to one of Overwatch‘s most popular characters, Mercy. The healer is losing her ability to resurrect all dead allies nearby....