Grand Theft Auto creator Dave Jones: You never know when you’ve got a hit idea
Since cofounding DMA Design in 1987, Dave Jones has created video games that have become massive franchises, including Lemmings, Grand Theft Auto, Crackdown, and...
Mark Cerny and Amy Hennig: A fireside chat with master game makers
Amy Hennig and Mark Cerny are both 53 years old, and they attended the University of California at Berkeley at the same time. And...
Sandbox hands-on: Its mixed reality flair innovates on VR arcades like The Void
When I first tried The Void’s Star Wars installation at Disney World earlier this year, it totally blew me away. I loved how intricately detailed the...
Fallout 4 director Todd Howard: Giving fans what they want without spreading too thin
Todd Howard, director of Bethesda Game Studios, noted in a recent talk at the Gamelab event in Barcelona that The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim...
Epic’s epic monetization has it winning the battle of battle royales
At the start of the year, one of the biggest questions in gaming was undoubtedly: “Who is going to win the battle of the...
The Wizard casts a spinoff spell for mobile VR: Trials of Meliora
Carbon Studio’s The Wizards is one of the more polished spellcasting games you can play in a VR headset, and now it’s getting a...
Latin America’s new video game federation has devs from 11 countries working together
Latin America’s games market is poised to hit $5 billion this year, a thin slice of the hefty $137.9 billion generated worldwide (as market research...
Pokémon Quest reaches 7.5 million downloads after launching on Android and iOS
The Pokémon Company International announced today that its free-to-play game Pokémon Quest has reached 7.5 million downloads on the Nintendo Switch, iOS, and Android. That...
The DeanBeat: Why outsiders see us better than we can see ourselves
When I learned that Ghost of Tsushima, an authentic samurai swordfighting action-adventure game, was under development at Bellevue, Washington-based based Sucker Punch, I did...
Octopath Traveler hands-on — the march of endless beginnings
I’ve played about eight hours of Octopath Traveler, and I have mixed feelings about Square Enix’s first role-playing game for the Nintendo Switch. It looks...