GamesBeat editor Jeff Grubb’s top 20 games of 2019
We’ve had a lot of really good years in gaming recently, but 2019 is at the top of the list for me. I get...
Tencent details how its MOBA-playing AI system beats 99.81% of human opponents
In August, Tencent announced it had developed an AI system capable of defeating teams of pros in a five-on-five match in Honor of Kings...
GamesBeat Rewind 2019: The year’s biggest trends … and where they’re heading in 2020
The game industry is in a huge period of flux, but 2019 only set the stage for enormous paradigm shifts that the coming year...
Oculus Quest gets dynamic fixed foveated rendering
The Oculus Quest now has a Dynamic Fixed Foveated Rendering (FFR) feature, which developers can use instead of manually setting the FFR level. Fixed...
Facebook: Mobile gaming is going tribal and global
Facebook recently produced a report on game marketing that represented its latest effort to understand the evolution of both gaming and gamers. The report...
Life is Strange 2: How Dontnod decided to wrap up the story of 2 brothers
While Telltale Games, the maker of The Walking Dead series, went down in flames, the mantle for storytelling games shifted to a French studio...
Building a solid hosting infrastructure is key to gaming’s future
Through the decades, gaming has grown from a niche hobby for a select few to a massive worldwide community. The online gaming community is...
The DeanBeat: My favorite games of 2019
Games grew to a $148.8 billion market in 2019, up 9.6% from 2018 and reaching over 2.5 billion people across the globe. Console games, the...
Mixer and Facebook Gaming begin chipping away at Twitch’s market share
Twitch is the undisputed ruler of the livestreaming-video space, but competitors are starting to make gains. Mixer and Facebook Gaming are both up year-over-year...
Fortnite lost 28% of its viewership hours on Twitch in 2019
Fortnite is still one of the most popular games in the world, but it has definitely lost some of the unprecedented momentum that it...