What AMD’s shipment schedule says about next-generation console timing
Advanced Micro Devices revealed its expected schedule for shipping “semi-custom” chips for game consoles and other devices in 2020, and the results tell us...
Patapon 2 gets remastered for PS4 on January 30
One of Sony’s most beloved PSP games is getting a new life on the PlayStation 4. Sony announced today that Patapon 2 Remastered comes...
U.S.-China trade deal clears way for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X
The United States and China have agreed to wind down the foolish trade war that president Donald Trump started in late 2018. Last week,...
PlayStation 4 was the best-selling hardware of the decade
The NPD Group released its annual video game report for the United States, and it included some tidbits for the last 10 years as...
Content Rated By: An Oral History of the ESRB excerpt – “Evolution, Expansion, and Enforcement”
GamesBeat is publishing this exclusive excerpt of Content Rated By: An Oral History of the ESRB. Previous chapters can be found here. To help commemorate its 25th...
The DeanBeat: 13 humble predictions for gaming in 2020
I’ve never been good at making predictions about the game industry, but I enjoy it. I figure if I make enough, some of them...
2019 game industry ad spend: a quieter year
At iSpot.tv, we found that the game industry spent an estimated $319.6 million on television ads in 2019 (January 1 through December 8), a...
GamesBeat managing editor Jason Wilson’s favorite games of 2019
Each year, it gets harder to nail down my favorite games of the past season. Part of this is because there are just so...
Sony reveals new PlayStation DualShock 4 Back Button attachment
Sony revealed the DualShock 4 Back Button attachment today, which (as the name implies) adds buttons to the back of the PlayStation 4 controller....
Sony’s Ghost of Tsushima will launch in summer 2020
Sucker Punch’s Ghost of Tsushima will debut in the summer of 2020 on Sony’s PlayStation 4 console. The game for Sony’s PlayStation 4 got...