Bob Bates starts an old-fashioned text adventure game called Thaumistry
Bob Bates, a veteran of 45 games developed, has launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for a new text adventure called Thaumistry: In Charm’s Way....
Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire reaches crowdfunding goal on Fig in less than 24 hours
That didn’t take long. Obsidian’s Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire has already passed its $1.1 million crowdfunding goal on Fig, the Kickstarter competitor that can...
Penny Arcade and ReedPoP take PAX Unplugged to Philadelphia
Penny Arcade and ReedPOP announced today that they will stage a new gamer event called PAX Unplugged in Philadelphia. Announced during PAX South 2017,...
GamesBeat weekly roundup: Square Enix’s Marvel deal, and GTA vet’s new studio
Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, we play Resident Evil VII (which or may not be scary, depending on which of our staff...
Ghost Recon Wildlands is a huge open world where hostiles are everywhere
GB: The A.I. in some open world games is often a noticeable weakness. How do you try to set up the A.I. for something...
The DeanBeat: How Warner Bros. rescued Avalanche Studios after Disney buried it
Disney and Warner Bros. have taken very different strategies in video games, and Avalanche Software, the decades-old Salt Lake City development studio, was caught...
Squad Wars: Death Division is the latest attempt to make multiplayer shooters work on mobile
In Asia, first-person shooter games are very different from the West, where Call of Duty and Battlefield rule. In China, Crossfire is the big...
Overwatch blitzes past 25 million players on PS4, Xbox One, and PC
The world could always use more heroes … 25 million of them, to be exact. Blizzard announced today that its team-based Overwatch shooter has...
Xbox revenues down 3%, but digital transactions reach $1 billion
Microsoft’s gaming division isn’t making as much money as the price of an Xbox One continues to fall, but the company is seeing growth...
Microsoft reports $26.1 billion in Q2 2017 revenue: Azure up 93%, but Phone down 81% and Surface down 2%
Microsoft today reported earnings for its second fiscal quarter of 2017, including revenue of $26.1 billion, net income of $6.5 billion, and earnings per...