NPD: Nintendo Switch outsold PlayStation and Xbox in June Posted byby Jeff Grubb July 18, 2019 2 min The video game business in the United States is at the beginning of a generational transition. Hardware sales are down overall, but that’s not... Continue Reading 2 min
Man of Medan interview — How 2 players can share 1 story in new multiplayer mode Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 11, 2019 8 min The developers of Until Dawn — my favorite game of 2015 — have come up with an innovative multiplayer mode with their latest horror... Continue Reading 8 min
Final Fantasy XIV is getting a live-action TV adaptation Posted byby Mike Minotti June 27, 2019 2 min Sony announced today that it is teaming up with Hivemind, the production company behind the sci-fi series The Expanse and the upcoming TV show... Continue Reading 2 min
Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony are right — Trump’s tariffs are foolish Posted byby Jeff Grubb June 26, 2019 3 min Shortly after the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) trade show in Los Angeles earlier this month, the big-three console manufacturers sent a joint letter to... Continue Reading 3 min
May 2019 NPD hardware: Switch outsells PlayStation and Xbox in U.S. Posted byby Jeff Grubb June 18, 2019 2 min The Xbox One and PlayStation 4 generation is ending. That shift is showing up in software sales, as you can see in The NPD... Continue Reading 2 min
tvOS 13 hands-on: Small Apple TV tweaks will please gamers, waste data Posted byby GamesBeat June 7, 2019 5 min The Apple TV has spent much of its life as the red-headed stepchild of Apple’s family of devices — the one that seems to... Continue Reading 5 min
The DeanBeat: What to expect at E3 Posted byby Dean Takahashi June 7, 2019 4 min The rites of spring are upon us again with the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), the big game trade show in Los Angeles that starts... Continue Reading 4 min
E3 2019 tips: How to survive the mayhem of gaming’s big trade show Posted byby Dean Takahashi June 7, 2019 8 min This year will be my 23rd Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). I missed the first two shows, but I have always considered these big game... Continue Reading 8 min
E3 boss interview — Stanley Pierre-Louis says show floor is sold out, 65,000 people expected Posted byby Dean Takahashi June 5, 2019 10 min Just a short time ago, the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) was a video game trade show in crisis. Longtime CEO Mike Gallagher of the... Continue Reading 10 min
Sony PlayStation CEO confirms PlayStation 5 will have cross-generational play, default SSD storage Posted byby Dean Takahashi June 5, 2019 2 min Sony’s CEO Jim Ryan told CNET that the PlayStation 5 will launch with cross-generational play. That means players will be able to play a... Continue Reading 2 min