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Burn Bryte is an digital-first role-playing game for Roll20, the virtual tabletop platform. It works in pen-and-paper tables, too.

The D20 Beat: Designing Burn Bryte as a digital-first tabletop RPG

Posted byby Jason Wilson
August 25, 2020
14 min

Video games have been one of the bright spots of the coronavirus pandemic. Humans are social animals, and the shelter-in-place and quarantine orders continue...

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14 min

GamesBeat Decides 160: When’s the next Nintendo Direct?

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
August 21, 2020
1 min

GamesBeat Decides hosts Jeff Grubb and Mike Minotti are flying the friendly skies on this week’s episode. The pair are getting a surprising amount...

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1 min

The RetroBeat: The 5 worst U.S. console launch lineups

Posted byby Mike Minotti
August 21, 2020
3 min

Last week, I talked about some of the best U.S. launch games ever. This time, I want to look at the consoles that had...

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3 min

The first TIGS event on mental health awareness took place in Toronto in October 2019.

The DeanBeat: Gaming mental health conference encourages men to seek help

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
August 21, 2020
4 min

Brett Schnepf was a veteran of the game industry, with decades of experience. Earlier this month, he killed himself. In a GoFundMe campaign for...

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4 min

Hitman 3’s Agatha Christie-style trailer is everything I want

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
August 21, 2020
1 min

Hitman 3 is coming this January, and developer IO Interactive has me more excited for it than ever before. The studio dropped the latest...

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1 min

GamesBeat Decides 159: Epic vs. Apple, Halo delay, and NPD

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
August 14, 2020
1 min

GamesBeat Decides is here once again to shout that you’ve activated Tim Sweeney’s trap card. That’s right, Epic pulled some Yu-Gi-Oh moves on Apple...