New operators Iana and Oryx helped me dust off Rainbow Six: Siege
Tell me if you’re familiar with this scenario: A publisher announces a game, and you really like what you’re seeing and hearing from the...
Why Ubisoft took us back to New York in The Division 2’s Warlord expansion
Ubisoft’s new Warlords of New York expansion takes Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 back to New York. While The Division (our doomsday saviors) was...
The Division 2 Warlords of New York hands-on: The chase is on for rogue agents
Ubisoft is launching its Tom Clancy’s The Division 2: Warlords of New York expansion on March 3 on the consoles and PC, and we’ve...
Content Rated By: An Oral History of the ESRB excerpt — Think globally, act digitally
GamesBeat is publishing this exclusive excerpt of Content Rated By: An Oral History of the ESRB. Previous chapters can be found here. To help commemorate its 25th...
GamesBeat Decides 138: What Dan Houser’s exit means for Rockstar
It was a big week with a lot of video game news, and the crew runs through it all on this week’s episode of...
The RetroBeat: Mega Man Zero/ZX Legacy Collection makes its games less frustrating
Mega Man is my favorite video game franchise, and I usually revel in its difficulty. But I’m glad that the upcoming Mega Man Zero/ZX...
Microsoft’s Game Stack chief: The next generation of games and game development
James Gwertzman started PlayFab to provide cloud-based tools and services for game developers, offloading the server infrastructure grunt work so developers could focus on...
Content Rated By: An Oral History of the ESRB excerpt — ‘How the Sausage is Rated’
GamesBeat is publishing this exclusive excerpt of Content Rated By: An Oral History of the ESRB. Previous chapters can be found here. To help commemorate its 25th...
NZXT still makes the ‘coolest’ CPU coolers
Custom desktop computers have always reminded me of the car-stereo scene. I’m not sure people worry too much about their auto stereo systems much...
Warcraft III: Reforged interview — The struggles and lessons of remaking a classic
Warcraft III: Reforged comes out today, bringing the classic real-time strategy game back to the forefront years after the original’s 2003 release. But remaking...