GamesBeat Decides 130: Death Stranding and Yves Guillemot’s Shark Tank
The GamesBeat Decides podcast can finally talk about Death Stranding, and that’s exactly what happens on this week’s episode. Gameranx producer Tom Johnson and Sidequesting...
Marc Merrill interview: Why Riot Games took a decade to come up with new games
League of Legends is a hard act to follow. At 10 years old, it’s a cultural phenomenon, and it still has 8 million concurrent...
Zynga teams up with Alec Baldwin for 10th anniversary of Words With Friends
Zynga and Alec Baldwin have been a good match ever since the actor got kicked off a plane for playing Words With Friends as...
You should watch the spoiler-heavy Death Stranding trailer
Death Stranding is out on November 8, which is a reasonable amount of time to shut out any new details about game designer Hideo...
Sanrio and MomentSQ are bringing Netflix hit Aggretsuko to mobile gamers
Sanrio, AVM, Lab, and MomentSQ are teaming up to take Aggretsuko, based on the hit Aggretsuko Retsuko anime on Netflix, to mobile gaming. Now...
Hellblade maker Ninja Theory’s The Insight Project will make games to fight mental illness
Ninja Theory announced The Insight Project, a research and development project to bring together technology, game design, and clinical neuroscience to alleviate mental distress....
How Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice changed lives with its thoughtful portrayal of mental illness
Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice was my favorite game of 2017. But this tale of a sword-wielding Pict warrior was also a groundbreaking portrayal of mental...
The DeanBeat: Coming to terms with brutality in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
Everybody has a line. We all draw it in different ways. That’s the theme of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, this year’s first-person combat...
The RetroBeat: Digital Eclipse revisits (and maybe improves) Aladdin for Genesis
I love retro video games (hence this column’s existence). I also love Disney. Yes, I’m one of those folks, the person who would karaoke...
Shroud joins Ninja in livestreaming exclusively on Mixer
Shroud is moving to Mixer. Michael “Shroud” Grzesiek, a popular Twitch livestreamer, has made a deal to broadcast exclusively on Microsoft’s livestreaming platform. Shroud...