GamesBeat weekly roundup: An ex-prisoner reviews a prison game and PlayStation 4 price cut
Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, Ubisoft announced a new Far Cry, we looked at Super Smash Bros. 4 a year after...
The DeanBeat: How technology is advancing the cause of women in video games
I did something quite fun the other day that I haven’t done in decades. In fact, I have never done it. I played EA Sports...
Hands-on with the new Xbox One experience — see what’s different
Cortana isn’t officially in this build of the New Xbox One Experience, but you can unlock it. Here’s our how-to guide. The Xbox One...
SteamWorld Heist started with an office argument about X-COM working in 2D
New game ideas often come from strange sources. SteamWorld Heist, for instance, started with an ongoing lunch-break argument among X-COM fans over whether a...
Esports reports shows the consumer habits of 15M competitive gaming viewers
Report tracks the consumer habits of the 15 million large esports audience
Drive Any Track turns your music collection into a hypnotic, addictive futuristic racer
I often forget how much music I’ve collected over the years. I’ve got stacks of vinyl (yes, I’m that old), racks of CDs, and...
Mino Games raises $2.2M and launches Mino Monsters 2
Mino Games had a rare hit in the Mino Monsters free-to-play mobile game with 7 million downloads and $10 million in revenue to date....
Minecraft Story Mode asks its young audience to care about narrative
Do young gamers want stories? Telltale Games is about to find out. The first episode of Minecraft Story Mode is out next week, but fully...
Chesh reinvents chess every time you play
When I was a kid learning to play chess, I had one big question that never had a good answer: “why?” Why does the...
Star Wars: Battlefront is fun because it is ‘Star Wars’
The Star Wars universe has proven how compelling it is over the years, but now it’s showing that it can even make a stale game genre...