City of the Shroud tactics game experiment starts on August 9
Abyssal Arts announced today that the first chapter of City of the Shroud, a tactics game that tries to buck the genre’s usual tropes...
Trion acquires Gazillion assets and expands publishing partnerships
Trion Worlds has acquired the assets of online game company Gazillion Entertainment, and it is also expanding its publishing platform for massively multiplayer online...
Raph Koster’s Postmortems helps online game devs avoid past mistakes
Raph Koster has a lot to say about making online games, as he’s been working on them for more than two decades. His new...
Cloud gaming has potential, but its execution isn’t a breeze
It’s been awhile since OnLive came out of stealth in 2009 and promised to disrupt the game consoles with a revolutionary cloud-gaming service, where...
The DeanBeat: Leaves and other false trends of E3 2018
One of the unintentionally funny moments of the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) took place at Microsoft’s press event, where Ralph Fulton, creative director of...
Ninja Theory’s Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice passes 1 million downloads
Developer Ninja Theory announced on Twitter that Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice has now passed 1 million downloads. Hellblade came out in August 2017 for PlayStation...
Goodbye, loot boxes! Hello, premium progression passes!
If the 2018 Electronic Entertainment Expo trade show last week had a one big trend, it was people standing on stage saying “and no...
Why Ubisoft needs 12,000 game developers
If Vivendi had succeeded in its hostile takeover of Ubisoft, you can bet the French video game publisher wouldn’t still have 14,000 employees, including...
Trials Rising embraces the old motorbike mayhem that I love
A few weeks back, someone on Twitter asked to hear from people who have “comfort games.” These are games you can go back to...
Nintendo scored biggest with Super Smash Bros. on Twitter during E3
Nintendo won the social media war, as measured by Twitter, during last week’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), the big game trade show in Los...