A life in game journalism
Merry Christmas and happy holidays. I thought I would do something different for a holiday message this year. It’s based on a talk I...
Utomik’s PC game subscription service will launch out of beta in early 2018
Utomik announced today that its PC game subscription service is coming out of beta. In early 2018, people will be able to sign up for...
Death Coming has reaped 100,000 games sold
Death Coming, a game that has you playing as the grim reaper, has sold over 100,000 copies since launching for Steam on November 6....
The IndieBeat: Genderwrecked’s witty, weighty take on trans identity debuts January 18
Genderwrecked is playful, poetic, lonely, beautiful, and gross. It’s a brilliant visual novel about a post-apocalyptic journey of self-discovery and gender. And also kissing,...
Micron ramps up its GDDR6 graphics memory for crypto miners, gaming, and VR
Unless you’re a hardcore PC gaming enthusiast, chances are your everyday conversation doesn’t involve graphics memory chips, such as the upcoming GDDR6. But the...
Call of Duty: WWII has already made $1 billion in sales
Call of Duty fans were eager to return to World War II. The shooter franchise’s latest entry has already earned $1 billion in sales...
Jar Jar Jam is about making games worthy of Star Wars’ most despised character
Have you seen Star Wars: The Last Jedi? Did you feel like there was something … missing? Was that something Jar Jar Binks? If...
Getting Over It wants to frustrate you in ways no other game ever has
Finished, overly designed video games never want to force a player to go backward. Maybe you’ll retread areas in a Metroid, but even in...
Riot takes its League of Legends knowledge to after-school coding program
Riot Games is bringing its game design experience to something beyond its smash hit multiplayer online battle arena League of Legends. It has partnered...
The DeanBeat: How Canada’s game industry is thriving, one Cuphead at a time
I spent a few days at the Montreal International Game Summit this week, where 2,600 game developers gathered to talk shop. It was, once...