The DeanBeat: Will cloud gaming make climate change worse?
Sometimes I like to think about long-term problems. Since the Australian wildfires have put the issue of climate change my mind, I’m wondering whether...
How Eco gives gamers the same global warming problem as scientists
Eco is a multiplayer game about starting a civilization from scratch and progressing it far enough that you can stop a meteor from destroying...
GamesBeat Summit 2019: Talks on refugees, peace, climate change, and accessibility
For 22 of his 24 years of life, Lual Mayen lived in a refugee camp in northern Uganda. His parents fled from South Sudan...
The Big Eco Game livestream — Watch us create society
The Big Eco Game is beginning today. This is a GamesBeat community event where we are playing the cooperative survival game Eco with groups...
The Big Eco Game community event: Watch us save the planet
On January 23, a meteor will appear in the sky. Just 30 days later, it will impact the surface of the planet. Unless we...
PC gaming editor Jeff Grubb’s top 14 games of 2018
We’re at the end of the year, and that means I have to figure out my favorite games of the year for our annual...
GamesBeat’s best stories of 2018
Our staff had a busy 2018. We wrote hundreds of news stories, interviews, reviews, previews, and more. We covered the biggest events in the...
GamesBeat Decides 76: RIP Jeff Grubb
On this week’s GamesBeat Decides podcast, co-host Jeff Grubb prepares for PAX East by getting a cold. As co-host Mike Minotti points out, this...
Eco: We stopped the meteor, but we couldn’t stop ourselves
Over the last month, I spent most of my time playing an “educational” game called Eco. Strange Loop Games has launched Eco in Early...
GamesBeat Decides 74: No robot mayors
Almost everyone on the GamesBeat team is at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco this week, and we’re going to have some audio...