Valve spruces up the Steam store with better social features, networking, and reach
Valve’s Steam digital game store has new competition for developers from the rival Epic Games Store, and so the company is upgrading its features to...
Creature in the Well adds pinball to a dungeon crawl
Nintendo’s Nindies showcase featured some big surprises, like Cuphead and Cadence of Hyrule. But after playing many of the featured games at a event...
Nintendo is open to more indies getting the Cadence of Hyrule oppurtunity
The Nintendo Switch has been good to indies, and indies have been great for Nintendo. Switch has become a hot system since its March...
God of War is GDC 2019’s game of the year
Kratos slew the entire Olympic pantheon, and more recently, fought to protect his son from the harsh world of Norse mythology. That latest adventure...
Independent Games Festival begins with emotional talk about Christchurch
The Independent Games Festival got off to an emotionally charged start tonight at the Game Developers Conference. It happened to be the first major...
NPD partners with IGDA to give developers market insights
The NPD Group is one of the only firms that tracks game sales in the United States. That data shapes publishing decisions, and now...
GDC quick takes: Versus Evil founder Steve Escalante
My favorite part of being the managing editor of GamesBeat is talking to people such as Steve Escalante. He’s the founder of Versus Evil,...
The VR headset market is about to get way too crowded and confusing
Once, there was a single VR headset. Today there are quite a few, and within months, there will certainly be too many in the...
Sparklite gives Zelda a wonderful roguelike makeover
With success like Dead Cells and Into the Breach, roguelikes (and tweaking their mechanics, as in Slay the Spire) are becoming a growing trend...
Epic Games Store gets off to a good start with millions of free downloads
Epic Games said that its Epic Games Store has gotten off to a good start as the company tries to provide an alternative store...