2015 NPD: The 10 best-selling games of the year
2015 is over, and it’s time to count the money the gaming industry made. New video games sold at U.S. retailers made $13.1 billion for...
December 2015 NPD: Call of Duty, Star Wars, Fallout end the year strong
December was strong for some of the year’s biggest releases. New video games sold at U.S. retailers made $3.22 billion last month, according to...
PlayStation 4 outsold Xbox One in December
Sony Computer Entertainment ended 2015 with a strong sales performance — and another chance to tout its PlayStation 4’s success over Microsoft’s Xbox One. The...
CEO Lisa Su expects company watchers to say ‘AMD is back’ in 2016
Advanced Micro Devices has had a few tough years as it struggles to stay afloat financially and compete with Intel, the world’s biggest chip...
Sony tries to trademark Let’s Play and pisses off the Internet
In the video game industry, it doesn’t take a lot to piss off your entire fan base. And Sony is about to re-learn this...
PlayStation 4 worldwide sales surpass 35M with 5.7M sold during the ‘holidays’
Sony’s popular console continues to roll. The company announced today that it sold 5.7 million PlayStation 4s during the holiday season. This brings the...
PSN is down for gamers around the world (update: it’s back up)
Updated at 8:30 p.m. PST: PlayStation Network is back As people are tweeting, PSN is back online. Very sorry for the inconvenience and thank...
The DeanBeat: Our preview of next week’s CES 2016 tech extravaganza
I made my predictions last week about what will happen in games in 2016. But next week, I’m going to expand my horizons beyond games...
PlayStation 4 hacked to run Linux, Pokémon
The PlayStation 4 and Xbox One systems are just PCs, and now hardware hackers have started doing some very cool things with at least...
To handle VR graphics, gaming PCs have to be 7 times more powerful
The folks at Nvidia, the world’s largest maker of stand-alone graphics chips, are good at numbers. So I talked to them recently about their...