From Kickstarter to Netflix: The Exploding Kittens Journey | Elan Lee
The collaboration of The Oatmeal cartoonist Matt Inman and video game designer Elan Lee has been a fruitful one. And I recently caught up with Lee...
Getting systems to simulate flight behavior in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 | Sebastian Wloch interview
For Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, the ambitious flight sim game that debuts today, the physics and environmental systems are far more sophisticated than the...
From humble shoe salesman to a bird’s eye view of video game history | Peter Moore interview
Peter Moore is a legend of the game industry. He told us in a fireside chat at our GamesBeat Next 2024 event that he...
Microsoft touts deep dive trailer for Indiana Jones and the Great Circle; here’s our interview
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is inching nearer to its December 9 release and Microsoft is releasing a deep dive trailer about the...
How games companies can attract (and keep) new talent
At our recent GamesBeat Next event, we held our ninth Women in Gaming Breakfast, where I had the opportunity of speaking with Dametra Johnson-Marletti,...
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is biggest release in history
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 had its biggest three-day opening sales in the 20-plus year history of the franchise, Microsoft announced in its...
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle — An old school adventure with action/stealth | preview
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is perhaps the biggest mass appeal gaming coming this holiday season. And I was happy to be one...
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 review — A quality campaign and wider gameplay variety (updated)
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 has finally hit the market, after four years of development. For me, this means there are new ways...
How Andrew Stephan made War Game — the Ukraine game documentary | The DeanBeat
Andrew Stephan is the director of War Game: The Making of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2, a documentary from Microsoft about the ordeal of the game developers...
Activision releases report on anti-toxicity tools for Call of Duty: 45M text messages blocked
Activision released a report on its anti-toxicity tools for Call of Duty, including the upcoming launch of Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 coming...