Diablo 3 brought the Necromancer back from the dead — here’s how
The Necromancer was a childhood favorite of mine. Childhood might not be a fair term; I wasn’t a child when I first played Diablo...
Star Control II developers working on ‘direct sequel’ 25 years later
The brains behind Star Control II are resurrecting the series a quarter of a century after the last real entry in the sci-fi series....
Hearthstone boss Ben Brode gives me new insight on what ‘casual’ means
Hearthstone doesn’t give players a great place to goof around. The Ranked modes for Standard and Wild, Hearthstone’s two main formats, are filled with...
Everything Is Going to be OK wins IndieCade’s 2017 Interaction Award
If you’re going through a period of intense anxiety and dread, Nathalie Lawhead wants you to know that Everything Is Going to Be OK....
The DeanBeat: Middle-earth: Shadow of War is the revenge of the nerds
Sometimes the GamesBeat staff is a microcosm of the world of gamers and other real people. This week, Jeff Grubb, our PC gaming editor,...
Dual Universe is a massive online game that’s one world — and the players create it
Dual Universe is ambitious. It’s a massively multiplayer role-playing game that promises a single shared universe, one where potentially millions of people can gather...
My Time at Portia marks Team17’s first-ever partnership with a Chinese developer
Team17 announced today that it’ll publish Pathea Games’s My Time at Portia, a colorful open-world role-playing game. This marks the publisher’s first partnership with...
Amazon launches update that overhauls its Lumberyard game-dev toolkit
Amazon is updating its Lumberyard tools for game developers. The engine is adding dozens of new features to improve animations, nonphotorealistic visuals, and more. Lumberyard...
Tencent has not acquired a 5% stake in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds studio Bluehole
Tencent has not invested in Bluehole Studio, the company that makes PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. News reports out of South Korea yesterday claimed that Tencent had...
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is getting its own subsidiary from Bluehole
Bluehole, the studio behind the massive battle royale shooter hit PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, announced today that it is creating a subsidiary, PUBG Corp., to handle the development...