Categories Posted inin Gameplay Total War: Three Kingdoms review — Best in the series, best in the setting Posted byby GamesBeat May 23, 2019 8 min Total War: Three Kingdoms is the best Total War game and the best Three Kingdoms game ever. I do not make this claim lightly;... Continue Reading 8 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay Oculus Quest: Beat Saber is a blast when it has no wires Posted byby Dean Takahashi May 22, 2019 2 min A lot of people are unboxing their Oculus Quest wireless virtual reality headsets this week. And the first game they’re heading for is Beat... Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay Lone Echo II interview — What Ready At Dawn has learned from its third VR game Posted byby Dean Takahashi May 21, 2019 7 min In Lone Echo II, Captain Olivia Rhodes and the android Jack are stranded on a strange spaceship near the rings of Saturn. They have... Continue Reading 7 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay Asgard’s Wrath — How Sanzaru is crafting a 30-hour Norse saga game in VR Posted byby Dean Takahashi May 21, 2019 6 min Asgard’s Wrath is one of the full triple-A games in the works for the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset. The Oculus Studios game is... Continue Reading 6 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay Lone Echo II hands-on — Dodging electric fuzzballs in zero gravity isn’t simple Posted byby Dean Takahashi May 21, 2019 3 min These fuzzball electric creatures took a liking to me in my demo of Lone Echo II, the new virtual reality game coming from Ready... Continue Reading 3 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay Phantom Covert Ops — How nDreams is making a covert stealth game in a kayak Posted byby Dean Takahashi May 21, 2019 5 min Who makes a covert operations stealth game where you’re in a kayak? It sounds like a dumb idea, but I played a preview of... Continue Reading 5 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay How Stack Up uses video games to save veterans from mental illness and suicide Posted byby Dean Takahashi May 19, 2019 19 min Stephen Machuga credits video games for saving his life. In dark days as an Army Ranger captain in Iraq, Machuga escaped being harmed physically.... Continue Reading 19 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay Stanley Pierre-Louis — ESA’s new chief believes that E3’s center will hold Posted byby Dean Takahashi May 19, 2019 9 min The Entertainment Software Association, the game industry’s lobbying group and the creator of the big E3 trade show, named Stanley Pierre-Louis as its new... Continue Reading 9 min
Categories Posted inin Technology Jensen Huang interview — ‘the foundations of gaming are just fine, just fantastic’ Posted byby Dean Takahashi May 18, 2019 3 min This week, Nvidia reported earnings and revenues that were down compared to a year ago. But they did signal a return to growth after... Continue Reading 3 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay Jack Tretton interview — Why investing in indie game startups is hot again Posted byby Dean Takahashi May 18, 2019 12 min Jack Tretton ran Sony’s game division in the U.S. for many years, and he helped the PlayStation 4 become ascendant in this generation. Then... Continue Reading 12 min