Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey hands-on preview — Taking on the Writhing Dread
In Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey, ancient Greece is at war. Nearly 2,500 years ago, the Spartans and Athenians were at each other’s throats. That means that...
The Crew 2: Gator Rush update hands-on — Zipping through the bayou in a hovercraft
Ubisoft launched The Crew 2 open-world driving game in June, and now it’s supporting it with a post-release update called Gator Rush. I took Gator Rush for...
Anno 1800 hands-on — being a capitalist in the age of industrialization
It’s time to test just how good of a capitalist you can be with Anno 1800, the new 19th-century city-building game from Ubisoft that...
How Ubisoft tweaked Rainbow Six Siege with Operation Grim Sky
Ubisoft is revealing the gameplay for its new operators for Rainbow Six Siege today at the Six Major esports event in Paris today. The...
The DeanBeat: Crazy Rich Asians raises hopes for better representation in media
The Asian Americans that I know are hopeful that Crazy Rich Asians, Hollywood’s first major romantic comedy about Asians with an Asian American director...
Paradise Game wants to create a thriving community for African devs
The game developer-focused conference Devcom debuted at last year’s Gamescom (one of the largest gaming shows in the world) in Cologne, Germany. It’s back...
Total War: Three Kingdoms hands-on — Escaping a deadly night ambush
Total War: Three Kingdoms isn’t coming out until the spring 2019, but Sega’s Creative Assembly studio showed me one of the things that will...
Stone tokes up a take on the hardboiled detective genre
Convict Games‘ narrative adventure Stone is a colorful noir, infused with Australian slang and starring anthropomorphic animals. It’s the studio’s debut title, and it...
Esports summit’s pitch to brands: patience and flexibility
The XLive Esports Summit featured a number of panels by industry professionals around the topic of esports, but a common thread ran through all...
Donut County doesn’t glaze over gentrification
Donut County is an adorable game where you play a hole in the ground. Minimalistic though that may sound, it’s neither easy to make...