editor's pick Archives

Donkey Kong’s failing liver: What the death of the CRT display technology means for classic arcade machines

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
March 3, 2017
3 min

The cathode-ray-tube monitor technology that powered every arcade game before 1992 is dead. What happens to the games when the last screen stops working?

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3 min

Diablo & beyond: State of the action-role-playing game

Posted byby Jason Wilson
July 21, 2015
11 min

With games like Diablo, Borderlands, and Path of Exile, this is a surprisingly strong subgenre of games.

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11 min

Facebook’s planned customer-data change called ‘land grab’ by publishers

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 9, 2015
8 min

But game publisher fears a power grab by the social network.

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8 min

Disney closes in for the kill with Star Wars: Rise Against the Empire play set for Infinity 3.0

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
June 5, 2015
7 min

Disney takes the wraps off its second major game in the Star Wars Disney Infinity 3.0 series.

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7 min

How to pick the right hero in Heroes of the Storm, Dota 2, and League of Legends

Posted byby GamesBeat
June 1, 2015
6 min

When it comes to MOBAs, which hero does what? Here are the most important roles in Heroes of the Storm, League of Legends, and Dota 2 -- and how they work.

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6 min

Heroes of the Storm designer: ‘I’d change every single hero in the game’

Posted byby GamesBeat
June 1, 2015
16 min

A Blizzard Entertainment designer talks with GamesBeat about how Blizzard's new MOBA chose its heroes, the struggles with their designs, and how tough it can be to say when they're done.