Xbox hires Portal dev Kim Swift to make cloud games (like Kojima’s)
Microsoft is getting serious again about cloud-native games. To that end, the company’s Xbox division announced today it has hired former Stadia game design...
Disney interview: Big games coming with Avatar and Pirates of the Caribbean
Disney had a big week at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) with the announcement of Ubisoft’s Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. The in-development open-world game...
Sea of Thieves: A Pirate’s Life — 5 details you’ll want to know
Rare revealed A Pirate’s Life during E3 last week. This new adventure for Sea of Thieves will give players a chance to adventure with...
Candy Shop Slaughter is a video game concept created by AI
It is possible for artificial intelligence to create a video game. Contrary to popular opinion and hopes for humanity, an AI came up with...
How Azur Games grew its hypercasual games to 1.5B downloads
Azur Games is one of those companies that has quietly become one of the top ten game publishers in the world with more than...
Kojima conspiracies, final E3 thoughts, and more | GamesBeat Decides 201
E3 is over, and what do we have to show for it? Well, how about a conspiracy about a Hideo Kojima video game? The...
The RetroBeat: This YouTube channel helps you beat those hard NES games
NES games are great! They can also be hard. That’s why I’m glad I discovered the YouTube channel U Can Beat Video Games. Yes,...
The DeanBeat: My favorite games of E3 2021
I absentmindedly searched for my favorite games of the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in 2020. Then I remembered we didn’t have an E3 show...
Guardians of the Galaxy: How to balance gameplay, humor, and a good story
Eidos Montreal took the wraps off the video game version of Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy this week at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3)....
Xsolla teams up with Devcom on year-long strategic partnership
Game commerce company Xsolla has been a good sponsor for various game events, including that GamesBeat holds. But it is going deeper in its...