Tencent and Sony purchase shares in From Software
From Software, developer of Elden Ring and Dark Souls, is the latest company to join the acquisition parade — sort of. Its parent company,...
July 2022 NPD: MultiVersus shoots past Elden Ring to the top
Consumer spending on video games, while still low compared with previous years, is close to what it was in July 2020. According to industry-tracking...
Twitter reports 36% increase in gaming tweets in first half of 2022
Roughly 1.5 billion tweets about gaming were made on Twitter in the first half of 2022. That’s ‘billion’ with a ‘b’. It’s like if...
The DeanBeat: The Summer Game Fest had no Elden Ring, but it still showed the vibrancy of gaming
You can’t beat what you did last time all of the time. And so while yesterday’s Summer Game Fest showed us a lot of...
Streaming viewership report suggests things are getting back to normal
The data provided by Rainmaker.gg, StreamElements’ analytics partner, suggests things are getting back to some kind of normal. The past few months have seen...
Kaser Focus: Let me Sora her
As someone who’s been trundling through Elden Ring with the urgency of a tranquilized brood sow, I’m intrigued by the growing legend of “Let...
Where are the rest of 2022’s games?
Games were debuting at a breakneck pace throughout early 2022, but the industry’s release velocity is waning dramatically. The delineation between nonstop games and...
I played 150 hours of Elden Ring on Steam Deck and loved it
I know the Steam Deck is fantastic because it enabled me to do something I otherwise never would have had time for: I beat...
Elden Ring had a strong showing in a short month for streaming
Elden Ring and Lost Ark had strong debut showings on Twitch, according to data from Rainmaker.gg, StreamElements‘ analytics partner. Other than that, it’s been...
Kaser Focus: Back to (magic) school
Considering last week’s State of Play was lackluster in the extreme, this week’s show dedicated to Hogwarts Legacy was bursting with life by comparison....