A heartbreaking story of getting into the games industry
One of the defining characteristics of labor issues in the video game industry is that companies tend to treat workers as disposable. If you...
Red Dead Redemption 2’s Wild West will have around 200 animal species
Red Dead Redemption 2 will sell itself thanks to its promise of a rich single-player narrative, a large open world set in the frontier...
The DeanBeat: Console games aren’t dead yet
We all remember headlines about how console games are dead or dying. Mobile games, PC games, Android settop boxes, virtual reality, and cloud gaming were...
Red Dead Redemption 2 hands-on — What happened when I accidentally shot a dog in the Wild West
Things were going great in my first preview of Red Dead Redemption 2, the big Wild West game from Rockstar Games and Take-Two Interactive...
Red Dead Online will launch as a public beta for PS4 and Xbox One in November
Rockstar Games announced that Red Dead Online, a new online connected experience set against the backdrop of Red Dead Redemption 2‘s enormous open world,...
Let’s talk about Red Dead Redemption 2 on PC
If you’re hanging on to the hope that Red Dead Redemption 2 is coming to PC this year or early in 2019, please give...
Red Dead Redemption 2 gives our first good look at gameplay
We’ve seen a few story trailers for Red Dead Redemption 2, but we haven’t had a good look at the gameplay for Rockstar’s upcoming open-world...
Take-Two’s summer earnings are the calm before the Red Dead Redemption 2 storm
For Take-Two Interactive Software, it’s the calm before the storm. The New York company reported better-than-expected financial results for the first fiscal quarter ended...
Microtransactions, DLC make up 62% of Take-Two’s first quarter revenues
Take-Two Interactive is seeing even more of its money coming from in-game purchases. The company said that “recurrent consumer spending” — which is its...
The DeanBeat: Why outsiders see us better than we can see ourselves
When I learned that Ghost of Tsushima, an authentic samurai swordfighting action-adventure game, was under development at Bellevue, Washington-based based Sucker Punch, I did...