Indie devs can now use the same voice-comms tool as Fortnite for free
The quality of in-game voice and text chat could soon improve in smaller games. Vivox, the company that provides the communications technology in massive...
Turtle Beach Stealth 300 review — Charge!
Turtle Beach’s business is booming. Game likes Fortnite, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, and Rainbow Six: Siege (but mostly Fortnite) have created a surging demand for gaming...
The RetroBeat: Maximum Carnage, aka Spider-Man and Venom’s buddy beat-’em-up
I have webs in my brain (well, more than usual). Insomniac’s new Spider-Man game comes out on September 7 for PlayStation 4. I reviewed...
David Baszucki interview — How Roblox plans to outpace the growth of Minecraft
Roblox has been on a tear. It grew from 48 million monthly active users last year to more than 70 million now. And it...
Far Cry 4 creative director’s new Typhoon Studios is ‘definitely not doing a battle royale game’
Three EA and Ubisoft veterans started Typhoon Studios in February, and they’re now ready to talk about their first game — sort of. The...
Netflix’s The Witcher show finds its Geralt in Superman’s Henry Cavill
Netflix announced today that Henry Cavill will star as Geralt of Rivia in its upcoming fantasy show The Witcher. The grim fantasy franchise started life...
Marvel’s Spider-Man review — Spidey’s best game yet
Spider-Man has had a place in gaming since the Atari days, with the web-slinger starring in dozens of titles ranging from classics to, well,...
The DeanBeat: EA’s esports tragedy, Riot’s sexism, and Cyberpunk 2077’s awesomeness
Violence came home to the video game community this week with the shootings at a Madden esports competition in Jacksonville, Florida. A mentally disturbed...
China’s education ministry moves to curtail screen time for games to prevent myopia
China’s Ministry of Education issued a notice on Thursday aimed at preventing myopia, or nearsightedness, among children and adolescents by limiting the screen time...
Mini Metro launches on Switch with console-exclusive multiplayer
Radial Games released its subway-based puzzle game Mini Metro on Switch today. This version of the indie PC/mobile hit includes an exclusive multiplayer mode....