Categories Posted inin Business Battlefield 1 helps EA beat quarterly earnings targets Posted byby Dean Takahashi January 31, 2017 2 min Electronic Arts reported earnings today that beat analysts’ expectations for its third fiscal quarter ended December 31. The holidays are the game industry’s busiest season,... Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business Titanfall 2’s new Live Fire mode sounds like 60 seconds of heart-thumping action Posted byby Jeff Grubb January 27, 2017 2 min One of the best games of 2016 is about to get an interesting new mode as part of a major content update. The Stacks map... Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay GamesBeat community manager Mike Minotti’s top 10 games of 2016 Posted byby Mike Minotti December 27, 2016 4 min It’s hard to find a common link between all of the excellent games released in 2016. This isn’t the year of the bow or... Continue Reading 4 min
Categories Posted inin Business The DeanBeat: My favorite games of 2016 Posted byby Dean Takahashi December 23, 2016 13 min Let’s face it: 2016 was a bad year in so many uncountable ways. But when it comes to video games, it was a great... Continue Reading 13 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay Analyst: New Call of Duty experiencing ‘softer-than-expected sell-through’ Posted byby Jeff Grubb November 23, 2016 2 min Titanfall 2 struggled during its debut in October, and now Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare is also seeing a slide of its own. You can... Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business It would be a shame to skip the kinetic action of Titanfall 2 this season Posted byby Dean Takahashi November 12, 2016 6 min Titanfall 2 is an awesome game, and it would be very sad if it got overlooked within the crowded slate of fall titles. In... Continue Reading 6 min
Categories Posted inin Entertainment Should you buy a PS4 Pro? GamesBeat Decides: Episode alpha 2 Posted byby Jeff Grubb November 8, 2016 1 min Let’s give this another try. GamesBeat Decides is back for another test episode. The audio should be significantly better this week — even if... Continue Reading 1 min
Categories Posted inin Business The DeanBeat: The time we put into games says a lot about us Posted byby Dean Takahashi November 4, 2016 5 min You still have time to play video games? I get that question a lot these days. I pride myself on being a game journalist... Continue Reading 5 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay Titanfall 2 is the Super Mario Galaxy 2 of shooters Posted byby Jeff Grubb October 28, 2016 6 min Titanfall was my game of the year in 2014 even though it didn’t have a real single-player campaign. Hell — for me, that was... Continue Reading 6 min
Categories Posted inin Gameplay How Respawn crafted better mech combat and single-player play in Titanfall 2 Posted byby Dean Takahashi October 21, 2016 17 min When the original Titanfall debuted in 2014 on the Xbox One and Xbox 360, everything was a rush job. Respawn Entertainment had to hire... Continue Reading 17 min