The DeanBeat: The landscape of gaming in 2019
This weekend, Disney, Electronic Arts, and Respawn Entertainment are expected to take the wraps off Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order, a new video game...
Single-player games withstood World of Warcraft. They’ll survive PUBG, too
With the recent cancellation of Visceral’s single-player Star Wars game, shifting focus of big publishers on multiplayer games and more than stellar success of...
Amy Jo Kim: Designers should listen to super fans, not super haters
If you’ve worked in games and technology long enough, you have your super fans, the people who you can turn to when you’re designing...
Single-player is the vestigial limb of publishers that had to adapt or die
At some point last century, someone at the U.S. Department of Defense plugged a network cable into a computer. Cut to a few decades...
Are loot boxes ruining Star Wars, Hearthstone, and … everything? GamesBeat Decides
This week’s GamesBeat Decides podcast was already a long one, and then — right before we were going to upload it — we had...
The DeanBeat: Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception tops our list of the 10 best games of 2011
This year, with our ramped up our GamesBeat review team, we’ve taken our Game of the Year choices much more seriously than we have...