Small towns are building esports meccas
For centuries, Katowice was a mining town. The first settlers were craftsmen in the 18th century, who arrived in the lowlands of Southern Poland...
How Cloudhead Games and Valve worked together on Aperture Hand Lab
Over the last five years Denny Unger and his partners at Cloudhead Games would talk about possible VR projects with some of the world’s...
The RetroBeat: Strider is the craziest 16-bit game I never played
When I turned on the Genesis Mini that Sega sent me, I first went for Mega Man: The Wily Wars (for reasons I’ve detailed...
The DeanBeat: The gray areas of video game violence and addiction
When President Donald Trump met with video game leaders about violence in games in March 2018, the industry worried he would use games as...
Origin PC EVO16-S review — Awesome RTX graphics with a noisy fan
The funny folks at Origin PC sent me a laptop with a custom Cuphead panel on the cover. So what the heck. I tried...
Nintendo announces Indie World video event with 20 minutes of games
Nintendo Indie World is coming. The company is planning to use this event to show off a bunch of new indie games for the...
My.Games will launch global game store in Q4
My.Games is a Russian game publisher that is going global. And so the company announced today that its My.Games Store will debut in the...
Fire Emblem: Three Houses easily has the series’ best U.S. debut
Fire Emblem: Three Houses was the No. 2 best-selling game in the U.S. in July, according to information released today by the industry-tracking firm...
NPD: Nintendo Switch leads another down month for hardware
Nintendo Switch was the best-selling console in July, but overall hardware sales were down big-time. Industry-tracking firm The NPD Group released its July report...
The Nintendo 2019 World Championships will work with Eleague to air on CBS
Nintendo announced today that it is partnering with Eleague to broadcast The Nintendo 2019 World Championships on CBS. Eleague is an esports brand that...