Fred Chesnais interview: On blockchain bets, Atari hotels, and shipping the VCS console
Under CEO Fred Chesnais, Atari is a company with just 28 employees. That’s pretty small for the oldest brand in video games. But during...
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...
GamesBeat Rewind: 2020’s biggest stories
You can’t say that 2020 was boring. For better or (often) for worse, we still had plenty to talk about when it came to...
The RetroBeat: 2020’s biggest retro gaming moments
I have to be honest: 2020 wasn’t as a big year for retro gaming as some of the other ones we’ve had in recent...
GamesBeat reviews editor Mike Minotti’s top 10 games of 2020
This was an awful year, but … at least we got some good games? I’m not sure that escaping into digital fantasy worlds is...
Tannenberg interview: Capturing World War I on the Eastern Front
When World War I comes up in popular culture, the Eastern Front gets far less attention than the battlefields of the West. We hear...
The DeanBeat: My favorite games of 2020
Many people’s memories of 2020 will reflect a horrible year. But games offered us an escape from that reality. They let us maintain social...
How Warframe maker Digital Extremes aims to thrive under Tencent
Tencent picked up a lot of game properties this month when it acquired Leyou Technologies, a Hong Kong-based game company, for $1.5 billion. Among...
Enclave’s CineHome Pro offers an easy, high-end surround sound experience
A lot of gamers have been updating their home theater setup this year with the arrival of the new gaming consoles, PlayStation 5 and...
The Callisto Protocol: How Striking Distance Studios is creating survival horror of the future
If you saw The Game Awards, then you known Call of Duty and Dead Space veterans are creating The Callisto Protocol, a new survival...