AMD CTO: How making the right bets years ago is paying off now
It’s been a long ride for Mark Papermaster, chief technology officer at Advanced Micro Devices. But the journey to challenge Intel in the race...
DualShock 4 Back Button Attachment review — Comfortable and capable
Sony Interactive Entertainment has released more buttons for PlayStation 4’s DualShock 4 controller. The Back Button Attachment, which Sony announced in December, is a...
Blizzard is pushing World of Warcraft into the future with Visions of N’Zoth update
World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth is about to drop its last major update of the expansion. Visions of N’Zoth (aka patch 8.3) releases...
Content Rated By: An Oral History of the ESRB excerpt – “Evolution, Expansion, and Enforcement”
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...
How ESL is keeping in stride with esports tournament growth
After a couple of decades in the wilderness, esports is coming into its own as a form of mass media entertainment. The global esports...
Tommy Tallarico is making a lot of noise about Intellivision
Tommy Tallarico has been making noise and music as a sound expert and musician for video games for more than three decades. But lately,...
How Stern Pinball and Stranger Things are thriving on nostalgia
Stern Pinball has built its business on nostalgia, so it’s no surprise that its next table is based on Stranger Things, the hit Netflix...
Five Nights at Freddy’s AR: Special Delivery — Building jump scares in augmented reality
Horror feels like a good fit for technologies like augmented and virtual reality, which have the potential to make dark rooms, jump scares, and...
AMD CEO interview — Expect a lot more from us in 2020
Lisa Su, CEO of Advanced Micro Devices, is on a victory lap. At CES 2020, she said the company has gained market share on...
Tokyo Mirage Sessions ♯FE Encore has a (lame) protagonist problem
I’m playing through Tokyo Mirage Sessions ♯FE Encore on my Switch right now, and I’m mostly having a great time. Like many, I missed...