Tencent buys majority stake in Path of Exile’s Grinding Gear Games
Chinese gaming and social media giant Tencent has acquired a majority stake in Grinding Gear Games, the publisher of Path of Exile (think a free-to-play...
Fortnite gets $100 million from Epic for esports push
Epic Games had $100 million burning a hole in its proverbial pocket, and the company has decided to use that cash to begin building...
Valve’s move to censor visual novels undoes its Steam Direct promises
Visual novel developers who have mature-themed games on Steam are reeling from what developer MangaGamer is calling Valve’s “sudden and abrupt policy shift.” Valve,...
The DeanBeat: Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 takes a lot of risks, not all good
Game development studio Treyarch is taking a lot of risks with this year’s multiplayer-only Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. And in my opinion, not...
STALKER 2 is in development, GSC GameWorld boss reveals
STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl is one of the most beloved open-world PC games ever, and now developer GSC Game World is working on a...
Discord gets big update as it turns 3 years old
It’s Discord’s third birthday, and the company is celebrating by sharing some numbers and improving its underlying technology. In its latest patch, larger servers...
RetroArch’s new lag-reduction tech is the next generation of emulation
Emulating retro games and consoles on a computer is a well-established concept, with tools for playing almost anything you could want. This has freed...
Eidos Montreal boss David Anfossi talks Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Deus Ex, and The Avengers
Eidos Montreal, the studio making this fall’s Shadow of the Tomb Raider, casts its own striking umbra on the gaming world. Founded in 2007,...
The DeanBeat: Surprise, Nvidia’s secret weapon is … gaming
Nvidia reported record financial results on Thursday for its first fiscal quarter that ended April 29, and it also saw its stock price hit an all-time...
The IndieBeat: Archeogaming is another effort to delve into the history of games
Soon after Andrew Reinhard started his Archaeogaming website in 2013, he got a chance to practice video game archaeology in the real world. He led the...