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...
Nintendo Switch generated more positive E3 reactions than Microsoft Xbox One X
The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) is always a battle for attention, and it looks like Nintendo won it, according to a couple of reports...
The Xbox Duke controller lives — check it out
Like the original Xbox games are returning with backward compatibility, Microsoft is also bringing back the original, massive Duke controller. And I found the...
Warner Bros. games are coming out of the shadow of its movies
Warner Bros. is known for its movies, but its games are also a big business. Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment is No. 12 on the...
Microsoft’s Xbox One X console commands the most social buzz at E3
Microsoft and its Xbox One X game console have generated the most conversations at the game industry’s biggest trade show in the U.S. The...