Indie dev turns Wikipedia into a text adventure game
Like a lot of people, I’ve spent hours clicking from link to link, sucked into Wikipedia’s endless void of information. Indie dev Kevan Davis...
Get ready for serious games that improve your judgment
For years, video games have provided useful imitations of real-world scenarios. From flight simulations to military training, video games offer a low-risk environment to...
Pokémon Go passes $1.2 billion in revenue and 752 million downloads
Pokémon Go may no longer be the worldwide phenomenon it was when it launched for mobile last summer, but the app is still making...
Grand Theft Auto Online gets a new mulitplayer mode and supercar
Grand Theft Auto Online is adding new content for the Independence Day holiday that will give players on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One...
GamesBeat weekly roundup: The SNES Classic Edition, and Futurama goes mobile
Hello, and welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, we checked out Diablo III’s new necromancer class, we reviewed the nostalgic Crash Bandicoot...
Hearthstone’s top game designer: ‘No intention to adjust Primordial Glyph’
Every set that Blizzard’s Team 5 design group introduces to Hearthstone has a handful of cards that players love and hate: Think Dr. Boom,...
Indie game leader Rami Ismail condemns harassment that shut down Spanish women’s gaming event (update)
A group called Gaming Ladies scheduled a women’s gaming event in Barcelona, Spain, but the event’s sponsor, King, the maker of Candy Crush Saga,...
The DeanBeat: Why making great games takes time
One of the most awkward introductions I’ve ever had to a game developer was with Dino Patti, a founder of a game studio called Playdead,...
Kate Edwards resigns from top post at the International Game Developers Association
Kate Edwards carved out a role as a fearless advocate for game developers in the past four-and-a-half years. Now, she is resigning her role...
Twisted Pixel brings Hollywood A-list voices to VR
Presented by Intel Launching a game into the fledgling VR world might for some sound like a risk: become a pioneering early adopter or...