Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle review — tactics fun for everyone
A mash-up with Mario, gaming’s biggest icon, and the Rabbids, an annoying species of screaming, slapstick Minion precursors, should have been a disaster. But Mario +...
GamesBeat weekly roundup: Playing the SNES Classic, and Nintendo discovers PayPal
Hello and welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, Nintendo finally adopts PayPal support, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds’ first tournament was a success, and the World Electronic...
The DeanBeat: Strategic zoom for the game industry
In the past nine years, I’ve written around 10,000 stories on games. In this column, I’m going to mention quotes from about 10 of...
Call of Duty: WWII closed beta gameplay — watch us play the throwback shooter
The next Call of Duty is nearly upon us, and Activision has rolled out a promotional beta for the military shooter to get people...
Cuphead hands-on: My 26 minutes of shame with an old-time cartoon game
I suck at Cuphead. Let’s get this out of the way. But in my defense, the run-and-gun platformer from Studio MDHR and Microsoft is...
WESG under fire for different rules and lower prize pool for women’s Hearthstone tourney
Traditional sports may have an esports problem now that many young people are flocking to competitive online games. But it seems esports has a...
Thomas Was Alone developer announces ‘The Gamedev Business Handbook’
If you’re looking to get into the business of making games, you’ll encounter a lot of people telling you how difficult that is. But...
Closers is a South Korean MMO blend of Final Fight & Sailor Moon, and En Masse is bringing it West
En Masse Entertainment announced today that is bringing Closers to North America and Europe. Closers is an online action role-playing game for PC with...
Eleague series shows the NBA taking a more personal interest in esports
Eleague aims to show that there are folks at the NBA who are bona fide esports fans and not just fans of its estimated $696...
Megacool launches GIF-sharing platform for mobile game discovery
The GIF-sharing platform Megacool is officially out of beta. Its API can work in mobile games to capture 10-second clips and share directly to...