Lumines Electronic Symphony is the most enjoyable epileptic seizure you’ll ever have (review)
Lumines was developed by Q Entertainment, a Japanese game studio founded by Tetsuya Mizuguchi, the mind behind Space Channel 5, Rez, and more recently,...
Twisted Metal is a budget experience at its best and a huge letdown the rest of the time (review)
Twisted Metal is the longest-running PlayStation-exclusive franchise, outdating Crash Bandicoot, Warhawk, Uncharted, and even Gran Turismo. Co-created by the notorious David Jaffe, also of...
The Simpsons Arcade takes us back to the bowling alley (review)
1991 was a good year for The Simpsons. Some all-time classic episodes aired, the series won a couple of Emmy awards, Bart Simpson t-shirts...
Review: How Final Fantasy XIII-2 saves the franchise…for now
2010’s Final Fantasy XIII may have sold well enough, but the perplexingly bad design decisions quickly made the title a bitter disappointment for many...
GamesBeat Reviews
Below are all the reviews from GamesBeat in 2011. They are listed in reverse-chronological order by the date the review was posted, NOT the...
Review: Should you buy Star Wars: The Old Republic?
Blizzard Entertainment’s World of Warcraft could soon be feeling a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of subscribers suddenly cried out and...
Review: Sonic Generations reminds us that Sonic used to be cool
Sonic the Hedgehog has seen better days. After instant icon status and four classic Sega Genesis games in the early 1990s, he’s been steadily...
Review: The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword proves Nintendo hasn’t learned anything
While all eyes will soon be shifted to the Wii U, the Wii’s successor, Nintendo still expects there are “millions” of this generation’s console...
Review: Ezio’s not the only thing getting old in Assassin’s Creed: Revelations
Assassin’s Creed: Revelations is the fourth title in Ubisoft’s award-winning, multi-platinum franchise. Developed by multiple internal studios around the globe and spanning more than...
Game media firm IGN Entertainment to give free office space to indie game startups
IGN Entertainment, which operates some of the world’s biggest video game fan sites, wants to build itself into a vital social network for video...