How Total War’s developer pushes its games forward — and fans can push back
Creative Assembly has survived for nearly 31 years because it has listened to its fans — and pushed them in a direction they didn’t...
Street Fighter V is still terribly broken after 2 years — here’s how to fix it
I’m trying to reduce my chance of having a heart attack this year — seriously — so I’m working through the list of things...
The Secret History of Mac Gaming: How SimCity led to Seaman
The following is an excerpt from Chapter 5 of The Secret History of Mac Gaming, “Simulated.” In 1985, at the suggestion of a neighbor from...
How Square Enix Montreal is making the leap to free-to-play mobile games
Square Enix has a lot of important game franchises, including Final Fantasy and Tomb Raider. But not all of those franchises are available on...
How Small Giant Games scored big with a single mobile game
Small Giant Games raised $41 million in February, making it one of the rare mobile game studios to be able to raise a large...
Why Magic: The Gathering picked Tencent as its partner in China
When Western game developers look at China, they see a market that could hit nearly $38 billion this year (as market research firm Newzoo...
Albatross melds retro-futuristic time travel with puzzles and platforming
Albatross is a platformer that bounces back and forth in time. The answers to its puzzles lie both in the present and future, and...
GamesBeat Decides 83: Finally, a Pokémon for babies
We kept putting off recording the latest episode of the GamesBeat Decides podcast this week because more news kept happening. But we finally committed,...
Cultist Simulator review — shuffling your way onto another plane of reality
Cultist Simulator‘s straightforward no-nonsense title belies the enigmatic journey it takes you on as you seek arcane truths and perform blasphemous rituals. It’s a...
Unforeseen Incidents review — a mystery with a few too many punchlines
Unforeseen Incidents is a classic point-and-click adventure that dives into government conspiracies and some terrible puns. It’s German indie studio Backwoods Entertainments’ first big game,...