Awesome Games Done Quick is back to raise money to fight cancer — 5 speedruns to watch
One of my favorite times of the year is coming up: Awesome Games Done Quick. AGDQ is a week-long marathon of speedruns, which has...
GamesBeat community manager Mike Minotti’s top 10 games of 2016
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...
The DeanBeat: My favorite games of 2016
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...
10 great and cheap Steam Winter Sale games
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...
Doom’s latest free update is huge and out now
Bethesda and id Software are giving you (more) hell, and — in this case — that’s a good thing. The publisher and developer updated...
YouTube’s top-10 most-viewed game trailers of 2016: Pokémon, Overwatch, and more
Popplio, Hanzo, and “man with flamethrower” are all YouTube stars now! To cap off 2016, Google is looking back at the year. And since...
Dishonored 2 is a mess on PC
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...
Doom’s fast-paced arcade mode is part of a free update
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,...
The DeanBeat: The high tide for powerful storytelling in games
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...
John Romero isn’t done with the first-person shooter genre he helped create
John Romero made a name for himself in game development as one of the original creators of Wolfenstein, Doom, and Quake. He helped establish...