PlayStation tops ranking of the game industry’s most-watched TV ads
On TV, “PlayStation Vue” had a whole new meaning between April and May, as the console brand captured 16 percent of the gaming industry TV...
The emerging legal battle over video game streaming rights
Esports advertisers, consumers, brands, investors, and athletes are congregating around streaming game content, competing for the revenue it generates. Juniper Research reports that esports...
The DeanBeat: Prey is a game where the developers decided to torture gamers
Bethesda’s Prey turned out to be a surprisingly engaging game for me. It reminded me of BioShock and its progression system where I became...
Prey: How Arkane’s ‘space dungeon’ redefines the troubled franchise
An alien-infested space station isn’t the best place to question your life’s purpose. As Morgan Yu learns in Prey, the existential struggle is just as...
What should you expect from Bethesda, Ubisoft, and Activision at E3? GamesBeat Decides
We missed last week’s GamesBeat Decides because we were in Berkeley, California, for our GamesBeat Summit event. We will upload the talks and panels from...
In Prey, water is life
In most games, you are out of luck if you have been hurt and don’t have enough medkits or magic to heal your character....
Bethesda’s Prey gives us a rare Asian main character in a blockbuster game
Prey debuts today as the latest science-fiction blockbuster video game for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. It has an unusual kind of enemy in...
Nintendo won’t have an E3 press event again, but plenty of others will
Nintendo chief Tatsumi Kimishima announced last night that the Japanese game company will not hold a large-scale press conference again at the Electronic Entertainment...
Prey kicks off its sci-fi affair with everything going wrong
At the start of Prey, everything seems normal. You wake up as Morgan Yu, a half-Chinese, half-German resident of a nice apartment in a futuristic...
Prey hands-on shows some suspenseful surprises
Players are going to find plenty of jump scares in Prey. That’s just the nature of the action-adventure game that Bethesda and its Arkane Studios...