The DeanBeat: Apple’s iPhone XS Max is great for games, but they’re still catching up
The first thing I did when I got the flagship iPhone XS Max was try out some games. I’ve been playing around with Apple’s latest...
PS4 zombie exclusive Days Gone shuffles to April
Sony announced today that Days Gone is coming out a couple of months later than expected. The open-world zombie game was going to come...
The anatomy of a game-key scam
If you’ve heard of Steam-key scams, you know that most of them seem too obvious to fall for. But some scammers are running sophisticated,...
The RetroBeat: Check out these awesome homemade retro arcade sticks — that you can buy
It’s 2018, and we’re long removed from the Super Nintendo‘s prime days of the early ’90s. But that doesn’t mean we can’t have an...
Call of Duty’s Blackout is starting to chip away at PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds
It seemed like Call of Duty’s battle royale would tear people away from PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds when it launched last week. And that is potentially...
NVENC vs. X264 — Does CPU or RTX GPU encoding work best for Twitch?
If you want to livestream to Twitch, Mixer, or YouTube Live, you’ve had two options when it comes to video encoding. You can set...
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 — My best multiplayer match yet
When I can get more kills than deaths in a Call of Duty match, it’s a glorious day. As a relatively elderly player of...
Why you should build a new PC right now — a fall 2018 guide
About two months ago, I started working on a story about building a new PC in 2018. The whole point of that story was...
The DeanBeat: Magic Leap gave us a taste of spatial computing, but it could still blow it
Magic Leap did not mention during its coming-out party in Los Angeles this week that it has raised $2.4 billion in funding since 2011....
Games aren’t power fantasies. They’re reality repairers
Let’s start with something simple but weird: Game-related purchases account for 75 percent of App Store revenue. That means we spend three times more...