Xbox fans hate ‘parity,’ but I want it after playing PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds
Bungie confirmed at E3 (the Electronic Entertainment Expo trade show) in Los Angeles last week that its upcoming sci-fi shooter Destiny 2 will run...
The DeanBeat: The 12 best games of E3 2017
Alright, it’s time for me to make up my mind. The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), the big game trade show in Los Angeles, took...
Sea of Thieves should go into Early Access on PC and Xbox One right now
If you’ve paid close attention to the language coming out of major gaming publishers recently, you’ve probably heard buzzwords like “games-as-a-service” (GaaS) or simply...
Microsoft releases new Windows 10 preview with Edge, emoji, input, gaming, and even calculator features
Microsoft today released a new Windows 10 preview for PCs with a long list of features and improvements spanning Edge, emoji, OneDrive, keyboard, handwriting,...
How Microsoft’s Rare imagined the pirate world of Sea of Thieves
Sea of Thieves is a silly pirate game where you can board an enemy ship by being shot out of a cannon. Microsoft’s Rare...
Microsoft creative director on reviving Age of Empires and making PC-only games
More companies at the Electronic Entertainment Expo tradeshow are targeting a PC gaming audience. Alienware had a booth on the E3 show floor to reveal...
E3 thrilled fans, but everyone agrees: The show must change
The Entertainment Software Association, the industry group that operates the influential Electronic Entertainment Expo tradeshow in Los Angeles each June, sold E3 tickets to the...
May 2017 NPD: Mario Kart and Zelda outsell Prey
Gamers in the United States are still buying Switches as well as software for their new systems, but the biggest release last month was...
Watch us play Sea of Thieves on Xbox One X
One of Microsoft’s biggest games for next year is a silly multiplayer pirate simulator, and we got a chance to play it once again...
The DeanBeat: The memorable and the missing moments of E3 2017
The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) can be such a corporate event, with Soviet Union-style press conferences where the press doesn’t get to ask any...