GamesBeat Decides 141: A Nintendo Direct approaches
We gotta go fast on this week’s episode of the GamesBeat Decides podcast. Reviews editor Mike Minotti has to run to get to his...
How Games Make Money: Out of the Park on sports sims and subscriptions
Out of the Park Developments makes some of the most beloved sports games in the world. But Out of the Park Baseball and Franchise...
The RetroBeat: My 5 favorite PlayStation 2 games
PlayStation 2 debuted in Japan on March 4, 2000. That means that the classic console is now 20 years old. Now, after we’re all...
GamesBeat Decides 140: Are they going to cancel E3?
You have protagonists, and then you have antagonists. But on this week’s GamesBeat Decides, reviews editor Mike Minotti talks about the often-overlooked “tagonists” of...
How Games Make Money: Omer Kaplan on ads and hypercasual games
Whenever someone asks me about what I do for a living, I tell them that I write about games and how people make money...
The RetroBeat: Sonic the Hedgehog 2 shines on Switch thanks to Sega Ages
If you’re like me, you were probably in the mood to play some classic Sonic the Hedgehog games after checking out his recent movie....
The DeanBeat: The coronavirus knocks down the dominoes of the GDC
The dominoes tipped over for the Game Developers Conference in the past week, as fears of the coronavirus (COVID-19) prompted more big game companies...
The RetroBeat: Why I switched from physical game collecting to digital
A few years ago, I started building up my collection of classic consoles and games. This was sparked in equal parts by nostalgia, finding...
The DeanBeat: We don’t get to celebrate games enough
Ed Boon was one of the elder statesmen at the Dice Awards last week. He worked on the first Mortal Kombat game with three...
GamesBeat Decides 139: Hollywood movie star Sonic the Hedgehog
Sonic the Hedgehog is in theaters, and reviews editor Mike Minotti has seen it. Turns out it’s pretty good, even though it features an...