GamesBeat Decides 133: Xbox Series X reactions, NPD, and more
No matter how many cops the government sends after us, we’re gonna keep playing games. And you can hear us talk about our game...
The DeanBeat: Do blockbuster games require more people to make than movies?
We saw plenty of blockbuster games — some still in the making — last night at The Game Awards, an event that is often...
The RetroBeat: Learning to love PlayStation after years of bitterness
I wish I appreciated the original PlayStation back when it was new. Sony’s first console celebrated its 25th anniversary on December 3. When the...
Esports and fashion? A match made in marketing heaven
When luxury fashion brand Louis Vuitton announced in September it would be partnering with Riot Games’ League of Legends World Championship to design in-game...
Fighting game community’s passion isn’t paying the bills
At 15 years old, Hoa “Anakin” Luu and his dad made the nearly 700-mile journey from his hometown of Atlanta to the sun-bleached southern...
Stadia works, but here are 10 features it needs to add in a hurry
Google’s Stadia cloud gaming service works (here’s our review), enabling me to play games in a data center and have them streamed to my...
The DeanBeat: What does video game history mean to you?
I’m about to co-write another video game history book: volume 2 of The Ultimate History of Video Games. My friend Steven Kent wrote the...
There’s serious potential in serious games
The world is being transformed by play. Serious games, or games that have a purpose beyond entertainment (not games that require serious effort to...
‘The Mandalorian’ made me want to return to Star Wars: Bounty Hunter
Disney+ is out in the United States, and that means I’ve watched the first episode of The Mandalorian. This is the first Star Wars...
The DeanBeat: Gaming is still at the mercy of larger forces
The week was thick with gaming news, so some folks may not have noticed that Playtika, the Tel Aviv-based social casino games company, is...