Funcom acquires Conan the Barbarian intellectual property and more
Funcom has acquired control of Conan the Barbarian and other popular culture intellectual properties with its acquisition of Cabinet Group. The Oslo, Norway-based Funcom...
Deathloop review — Arkane Lyon at the top of its game
Deathloop is one of the best games of the year. And I say that as someone who has previously recognized the quality of Arkane...
New World interview — How Amazon Games brought an MMO (close) to the finish line
Amazon Games hasn’t had the best track record with shipping games, as the tech giant tries to move beyond being a seller to a...
Hands-on video of the PS5 beta for Call of Duty: Vanguard multiplayer
Sledgehammer Games launched the first public beta tests of the multiplayer for this fall’s Call of Duty: Vanguard over the weekend. I played it on...
The DeanBeat: Sony shows off its immersive worlds coming … someday
Sony showed off an impressive lineup of games with immersive worlds at the PlayStation Showcase, but it also used familiar sleight of hand that...
Niko Partners: Asia’s cloud gaming addressable market will triple to 500M by 2025
Cloud gaming could reach an addressable market of about 150 million people in 2021, but actual numbers of cloud gaming users are smaller than...
Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End is coming to PC and PS5
Sony announced that Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End is heading to PS5 and PC during today’s PlayStation Showcase. Sony is bundling the title with...
AccelByte raises $10M to provide backend services for cross-platform games
AccelByte has raised $10 million in funding to provide backend services for live service games that run across multiple platforms. The Seattle-based company is...
The new Atari VCS is a weird piece of nostalgia
The new Atari VCS system is a strange oddity, one I cannot help but admire. On the outside, it looks like a modern reimagining...
GOG adds Elite Force and other classic Star Trek games
To celebrate Star Trek’s 55th anniversary today, digital games store GOG has added several of the franchise’s classics to its library. This includes the...