Star Control II developers working on ‘direct sequel’ 25 years later
The brains behind Star Control II are resurrecting the series a quarter of a century after the last real entry in the sci-fi series....
Nyko’s Nintendo Switch Power Pak gives it more power … and more pounds
The conversation about the Switch’s battery life was a lot louder before the system launched in March. When Nintendo announced that the Switch would...
Hearthstone boss Ben Brode gives me new insight on what ‘casual’ means
Hearthstone doesn’t give players a great place to goof around. The Ranked modes for Standard and Wild, Hearthstone’s two main formats, are filled with...
WWE 2K18 scores the secret recipe for KFC’s Colonel Sanders as a playable wrestler
WWE 2K18‘s newest character isn’t a wrestler. Heck, I’m not even sure if he was a real person. Give me a second. *checks Wikipedia*...
SmartBoy review: Turning your phone into a GameBoy is cool, but it’s also a pain
The Nintendo GameBoy library is a sweet chocolate box of retro gaming: little cartridges containing quaint, meticulously machine-coded 8-bit treasures. It would be a...
Atchafalaya Arcade captures nostalgia in a series of virtual musical instruments
Atchafalaya Arcade is a pixelated love song to Louisiana made for the Game Boy. It presents three “virtual instruments” for the player to tinker...
GamesBeat weekly roundup: Sony’s game boss steps down, and the Switch’s golf RPG is an ace
Hello, and welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, we played some of the most anticipated games for the rest year: Middle-earth: Shadow...
SpecialEffect raises $391,470 for gamers with physical disabilities
SpecialEffect, the U.K.-based charity that helps people with physical disabilities play video games, raised $391,470 (£300,000) during its fundraising event last week. That well exceeded...
The DeanBeat: Middle-earth: Shadow of War is the revenge of the nerds
Sometimes the GamesBeat staff is a microcosm of the world of gamers and other real people. This week, Jeff Grubb, our PC gaming editor,...
Sunken is the hidden object VR game that takes you under the sea
Sunken is a virtual reality game that plunges players into the ocean deep to explore shipwrecks. Though it’s a low-stakes hidden object game, it’s...