The DeanBeat: What Ready Player Two tells us about the metaverse Posted byby Dean Takahashi January 22, 2021 7 min I was a fanboy for Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One book and the 2018 Steven Spielberg movie based on it. And so when the... Continue Reading 7 min
The RetroBeat: River City Girls is a beat-’em-up delight Posted byby Mike Minotti January 15, 2021 3 min I enjoyed my holiday break because it gave me time to play a lot more games than normal. And after spending about 20 hours... Continue Reading 3 min
The DeanBeat: The best of CES 2021 as seen from afar Posted byby Dean Takahashi January 15, 2021 9 min Last year at CES 2020, I walked more than 37.45 miles (over 84,385 steps) to scout for the best ideas and products of the... Continue Reading 9 min
The RetroBeat: Dragon Quest V is a marriage made in retro-JRPG heaven Posted byby Mike Minotti January 8, 2021 4 min My discovery of the Dragon Quest franchise was one of my few happy happenstances of 2020. For decades, I convinced myself that I just... Continue Reading 4 min
GamesBeat Decides: The best (and worst) Nintendo consoles Posted byby Mike Minotti January 7, 2021 1 min Nintendo has made some of the most iconic consoles of all time. Now it is up to us to rank them the only way... Continue Reading 1 min
GamesBeat managing editor Jason Wilson’s favorite non-RPGs of the year Posted byby Jason Wilson December 31, 2020 8 min When I started putting together a list of games for this, I realized that, like so many others during the pandemic, I had played... Continue Reading 8 min
The D20 Beat: My critical hits of 2020 Posted byby Jason Wilson December 30, 2020 9 min The Witcher 3 is one of my favorite role-playing games of the past decade. The Witcher 2 is also a fantastic RPG. So far,... Continue Reading 9 min
GamesBeat Rewind: 2020’s biggest stories Posted byby Mike Minotti December 29, 2020 4 min 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... Continue Reading 4 min
GamesBeat reviews editor Mike Minotti’s top 10 games of 2020 Posted byby Mike Minotti December 28, 2020 4 min This was an awful year, but … at least we got some good games? I’m not sure that escaping into digital fantasy worlds is... Continue Reading 4 min
The DeanBeat: The most-anticipated games of 2021 Posted byby Dean Takahashi December 18, 2020 7 min With The Game Awards last week, we got a good flavor for the big games coming next year. And so it’s time to do... Continue Reading 7 min