Vicarious Visions’ merger with Blizzard is bad for gamers
Today, Activision announced that it is merging Vicarious Visions with Blizzard Entertainment. Vicarious, a studio that had found a niche creating superb remake compilations...
The DeanBeat: What Ready Player Two tells us about the metaverse
I was a fanboy for Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One book and the 2018 Steven Spielberg movie based on it. And so when the...
Path of Exile: Echoes of Atlas is Grinding Gear’s most downloaded expansion
Path of Exile continues to grind out success more than seven years after its launch. Grinding Gear Games announced today that Echoes of Atlas...
Puzzle Quest 3 announced as a free-to-play sequel
505 Games has announced Puzzle Quest 3 today, a new installment in the franchise that combines match-3 puzzle mechanics with RPG-inspired progression and story...
Rival Peak interactive reality show hits 22 million views
The game-like interactive reality show Rival Peak has turned into a hit on Facebook, with more than 22 million views of the first six...
Hitman 1 and 2 players probably shouldn’t play Hitman 3 yet
Hitman 3 is the excellent culmination of developer IO Interactive’s modern trilogy of assassination simulators, but fans should probably hold off on playing it...
Opera acquires YoYo Games for $10 million and launches Opera Gaming division
Web browser maker Opera has acquired YoYo Games, the maker of the GameMaker Studio 2 game engine, for $10 million, and it has also...
Hearthstone gets 35 new cards on January 21
Blizzard Entertainment announced today that a new miniset of 35 cards, called Darkmoon Races, is coming to Hearthstone on January. Hearthstone is the most...
Hitman 3 review — A world made entirely out of Chekhov’s guns
Hitman works because developer IO Interactive builds the games as predictable and rigid machines. And as players, we control the key to this machine...
The RetroBeat: River City Girls is a beat-’em-up delight
I enjoyed my holiday break because it gave me time to play a lot more games than normal. And after spending about 20 hours...