Categories Posted inin Gameplay AMD returns to profitability in Q3 2017 as Ryzen takes off Posted byby Dean Takahashi October 24, 2017 3 min Advanced Micro Devices reported a net profit in the third quarter, thanks to the strength of its Ryzen and Epyc series processors that launched... Continue Reading 3 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay Double Fine unveils 70-game lineup for Day of the Devs indie festival Posted byby GamesBeat October 24, 2017 5 min Double Fine’s fifth annual Day of the Devs indie games festival is coming up. It’s a one-day free event from 1 p.m. to 8... Continue Reading 5 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds dev invests in gaming capital firm ESDF Posted byby Jeff Grubb October 23, 2017 3 min Bluehole is hard at work trying to get PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds out of Early Access on Steam and on Microsoft’s Xbox One console, but that... Continue Reading 3 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay EA reboots Uncharted creator’s new Star Wars game, closes Visceral Studios (update) Posted byby Mike Minotti October 17, 2017 3 min Electronic Arts announced today that it is reworking Visceral’s Star Wars game. The project was under the acclaimed Amy Hennig, who was the creator... Continue Reading 3 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay Middle-earth: Shadow of War postmortem — Monolith’s Michael de Plater explains it all Posted byby Dean Takahashi October 17, 2017 14 min Middle-earth: Shadow of War is one of the biggest games of the fall, and it made a big splash when it debuted on October... Continue Reading 14 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay Razer updates its Blade Stealth ultrabook and Core external GPU dock Posted byby Jeff Grubb October 17, 2017 2 min Razer wants to upgrade how you game and work on the go, and that is why it is launching new versions of its slim... Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay Conjuring Divinity: Original Sin 2 on my smartphone is why I love PC gaming Posted byby Jeff Grubb October 16, 2017 3 min I spent Sunday playing the PC role-playing game Divinity: Original Sin 2 — except I wasn’t anywhere near my desktop. Instead, I was playing... Continue Reading 3 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay A Mortician’s Tale dissects the stigma of death Posted byby GamesBeat October 16, 2017 3 min A Mortician’s Tale is a game about death, but it’s anything but morbid. Instead, it seeks to normalize death and to lift the stigma... Continue Reading 3 min
Categories Posted inin Development Game boss interview: Rob Pardo says playtesting is critical to game design Posted byby Dean Takahashi October 14, 2017 17 min Rob Pardo developed his relentless focus on excellent game design when he was at Blizzard Entertainment, making games, such as StarCraft, Warcraft III, and... Continue Reading 17 min
Categories Posted inin Business Niko Partners: Taiwan’s game market on path to $2.8 billion by 2021 Posted byby Dean Takahashi October 11, 2017 2 min Asian games market researcher Niko Partners is forecasting that the Taiwanese game market will grow from $1.26 billion in 2016 to $2.8 billion by... Continue Reading 2 min