World of Warcraft: Shadowlands review — A modern feel for a venerated MMORPG
Shadowlands, World of Warcraft’s newest expansion, takes the muddled mess that the previous Battle for Azeroth expansion became and sorts it into a beautiful,...
Nukebox Studios aims for another hit with home decor game Room Flip
India’s Nukebox Studios is aiming for another global hit with the home design game Room Flip. The creator of Food Truck Chef and Sponge...
Ducky generates $1 million a month and 145 million plays with hypercasual games
Hypercasual games are simple games that can reach the broadest audiences on mobile devices, and they can be made almost anywhere. The latest company...
The DeanBeat: Predictions for gaming in 2021
This past year was one of the most unpredictable in all of human history. The pandemic threw off our ability to predict what will...
In its death throes, Adobe’s Flash kills off Zynga’s original FarmVille
Adobe is terminating its Flash software today, and with it will go Zynga’s original FarmVille game from 2009. That brings to an end an...
GamesBeat managing editor Jason Wilson’s favorite non-RPGs of the year
When I started putting together a list of games for this, I realized that, like so many others during the pandemic, I had played...
Apple purges 39,000 game apps from China store to meet year-end licence deadline
(Reuters) — Apple removed 39,000 game apps from its China store Thursday, the biggest removal ever in a single day, in keeping with a...
GamesBeat Decides the game of the year
Nothing exemplifies the power of the human spirit through a tumultuous time like arguing about video games. And thankfully, GamesBeat is comprised of four...
The D20 Beat: My critical hits of 2020
The Witcher 3 is one of my favorite role-playing games of the past decade. The Witcher 2 is also a fantastic RPG. So far,...
What 50 hours in Astro’s Playroom taught me about video games
I’m weird. By most accounts, you can beat Astro’s Playroom — the PlayStation 5’s glorified pack-in tech demo — in about four hours. I’ve...