It’s the season of spring sales–many storefronts are discounting fantastic games right now across PS4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, and PC. If you’re looking for discounts on Steam games, Fanatical just kicked off another big sale in time for Easter, marking down the prices on thousands of games. Fanatical’s Easter sale includes the newly released […]
Play Your Switch Game In (Almost) 4K With This Device
This device will let you play Nintendo Switch games in native 4K. Er, well, closer to 4K anyways, Look, we’re not here to minimize this incredible technical accomplishment as it’s just really hard to get something to display in 4K when it wasn’t designed to in the first place. That’s just way too many pixels […]
Lawyer Up, The Tabletop Game That Encourages Arguing With Friends
If you ever wanted to play a tabletop version of Law and Order, Lawyer Up seems to be pretty much it. Say what you will about the litigiousness nature of Americans, but you gotta admit that it has created some pretty great television drama. It’s also created this neat looking asymmetrical card game called Lawyer […]
App Annie: Q1 mobile game downloads up 20% as players stay in
All of that social distancing is helping mobile gaming grow, according to mobile market data and analytics App Annie. Global mobile game downloads were up 20% in Q1 2020 compared to the same period last year. To be precise, the recent quarter saw 13 billion new downloads. The current pandemic has many people stuck inside, […]
Hit Board Game Gloomhaven Is Getting A Sequel
Gloomhaven is one of the most successful board games of the past few years, selling more than 200,000 copies since its initial Kickstarter run in 2017, and now it’s getting a sequel. Creator Isaac Childres first unveiled the Kickstarter for Frosthaven on March 31, and it received more than $1.5 million in pledges over the […]
Xbox Live, Game Pass Seeing "Record Numbers" Amid COVID-19 Crisis
As more and more people stay home, either voluntarily or by government order due to the COVID-19 crisis, the Xbox Live gaming network is surging in popularity. Microsoft said in a post that Xbox Live, Xbox Game Pass, and Mixer are seeing “record numbers” as people spend more time playing games while adhering to social-distancing […]
Skillz launches mobile game tournaments to raise donations for American Red Cross
Skillz, which has a platform for mobile esports, is launching mobile game tournaments to raise donations for the American Red Cross. Starting on Saturday and running over the weekend, Skillz will host mobile game tournaments where players can donate to the American Red Cross, in hopes of alleviating severe blood shortages caused by COVID-19. Through […]
The DeanBeat: The game industry rolls with the punches of the coronavirus
Another week has gone by, and the game industry has rolled with the punches of the coronavirus. It demonstrates how resilient game companies are and how they can adapt to almost anything. But our collective experience shows it’s hard to dodge something as apocalyptic as a pandemic that shuts down many parts of the global […]
Sony Patents "Direct Gameplay" (Here’s What It Means)
A recently-published patent shows that, back in 2018, Sony patented something called “Direct Gameplay,” which sounds so utterly vague that it could mean anything. Thankfully, there’s more information available than just the title, and if you can wade your way through the patent, you’ll notice that it describes some pretty exciting ideas that Sony has for its brand-new […]
5 Game of Thrones Characters and Their Real-Life Partners
We have all seen the world-famous HBO series Game of Thrones, and we loved it. The fascinating thing about the show is the amazing actors that made historical scenes. A lot of characters are involved in relationships, but a lot of them are also cheating, visiting brothels, and doing other immoral things. However, that’s not […]