GamesBeat weekly roundup: PlayStation 4 sales pass 30 million, and the SNES turns 25
Welcome to a post-Thanksgiving GamesBeat weekly roundup! It’s time to snap out of your turkey coma with a week’s worth of gaming news and...
My mom’s holiday gift guide for gamers
Gamers can be hard to shop for. Sure, a lot of stuff caters to our nerdy interests, but it can be difficult to sort...
DeanBeat: A big brain dump on video games in Montreal
MONTREAL — It’s a wonderful and merciless exercise to force speakers to talk about something important in just five minutes. I saw that recently...
Sony’s bringing PlayStation 4 Remote Play to PC and Mac
Soon, you’ll be able to play PlayStation 4 games on your laptop, even if you’re not at home. Shuhei Yoshida, the president of Sony’s Worldwide...
GamesBeat giveaway: Fallout 4 Xbox One bundle
It’s time to leave your vault. Microsoft has given GamesBeat a Fallout 4 Xbox One bundle to give away to a lucky reader. This...
Nintendo Power’s Epic Center: a golden age of console role-playing games
In the thick of the Super Nintendo Entertainment System zeitgeist in 1995, noted games magazine and company propaganda machine Nintendo Power started printing a...
Vonvon CEO defends privacy practices of its ‘Most Used Words on Facebook’ app against critics
As the “What are your most used words on Facebook?” app became a viral phenomenon, people began asking about the company that created the wordcloud and...
Chinese blockbuster Cross Fire is crappy and fun — and here’s why it makes $1B a year
I’m jacked into the world of games. I don’t play much Destiny or League of Legends, but I know what they are. I know...
Chinese publisher The9 signs $500M deal to secure the rights to Cross Fire 2
Cross Fire is a massively successful game. You’re probably doubting that statement because you haven’t heard of it. But it’s a free-to-play shooter that...
Hearthstone is getting a $1M championship event in 2016
Blizzard is putting some serious money on the line for the future of competitive Hearthstone. The first event of the 2016 Hearthstone Championship Tour...