Categories Posted inin Gameplay GamesBeat community manager Mike Minotti’s top 10 games of 2016 Posted byby Mike Minotti December 27, 2016 4 min It’s hard to find a common link between all of the excellent games released in 2016. This isn’t the year of the bow or... Continue Reading 4 min
Categories Posted inin Business The DeanBeat: My favorite games of 2016 Posted byby Dean Takahashi December 23, 2016 13 min Let’s face it: 2016 was a bad year in so many uncountable ways. But when it comes to video games, it was a great... Continue Reading 13 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay 10 great and cheap Steam Winter Sale games Posted byby Mike Minotti December 22, 2016 4 min It’s the most wonderful time of the year. No, not Christmas. It’s Steam sale time! Valve actually holds multiple sales on its digital PC... Continue Reading 4 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay Doom’s latest free update is huge and out now Posted byby Jeff Grubb December 8, 2016 1 min Bethesda and id Software are giving you (more) hell, and — in this case — that’s a good thing. The publisher and developer updated... Continue Reading 1 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay YouTube’s top-10 most-viewed game trailers of 2016: Pokémon, Overwatch, and more Posted byby Jeff Grubb December 7, 2016 1 min Popplio, Hanzo, and “man with flamethrower” are all YouTube stars now! To cap off 2016, Google is looking back at the year. And since... Continue Reading 1 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay Dishonored 2 is a mess on PC Posted byby Jeff Grubb November 11, 2016 2 min I’m sorry that we couldn’t tell you this sooner, but publisher Bethesda’s Dishonored 2 isn’t working that well on PC. Players across that platform... Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay Doom’s fast-paced arcade mode is part of a free update Posted byby Mike Minotti October 19, 2016 1 min One of the best games of the year is getting a little better. Bethesda has released a free update for its first-person shooter Doom,... Continue Reading 1 min
Categories Posted inin Business The DeanBeat: The high tide for powerful storytelling in games Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 8, 2016 4 min Storytelling in games feels like it’s at a high tide. After playing Naughty Dog’s masterful Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End, I felt like I... Continue Reading 4 min
Categories Posted inin Business John Romero isn’t done with the first-person shooter genre he helped create Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 7, 2016 26 min John Romero made a name for himself in game development as one of the original creators of Wolfenstein, Doom, and Quake. He helped establish... Continue Reading 26 min
Categories Posted inin Business Telltale’s Dan Connors never gets tired of a good interactive story Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 5, 2016 8 min Disclosure: The organizers of Gamelab paid my way to Barcelona. Our coverage remains objective. Telltale Games has always focused on interactive storytelling in its... Continue Reading 8 min