The next Steam Game Festival is will start on February 3rd, and it will give you access to playable demos of over 500 upcoming titles. Valve started hosting the virtual festival last year in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic after in-game industry events like the Game Developers Conference got cancelled. The developer has held quite a few more iterations of the festival since then, and it has…
The RetroBeat: Classic Mega Man is better than the X series
January 30, 2021
A week or so ago, I once again got mad because of a tweet. Specifically, it was this one from Nintendo of America, asking people if they like Mega Man or Mega Man X better.
Mega Man or Mega Man X?
— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) January 21, 2021
Despite my…
G4 returns today on YouTube and Twitch
January 30, 2021
Ahead of its return later this year, G4 will air a new series called B4G4 on YouTube and Twitch. It starts streaming today (Friday, January 29th). Among other content, the series will feature comedy sketches, game reviews and music parodies, with fans getting the chance to…
YouTube is testing its own version of Twitch clips
January 29, 2021
YouTube is finally allowing users to create and share clips from videos. A small number of creators will have access to the clipping tool during the initial test, including some gaming channels. The feature is now available on desktop and Android and it’ll arrive on iOS soon.
DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND…
We are launching a new product on @YouTube
? CLIPS ?
It’s in experiment on a…
Epic Games Store reached 160 million customers in 2020
January 28, 2021
Epic Games released the 2020 stats for its digital PC store, revealing that it reached 160 million customers in 2020.
Epic Games Store launched in 2018 as a way for the company to build on the success of Fortnite. Steam is still the undisputed king of PC gaming stories. It…
EA founded a new studio to work on the long-awaited 'Skate 4'
January 28, 2021
EA has formed a new studio to develop the next Skate game. On Wednesday, the publisher announced the existence of Full Circle, which, like previous Skate developer Black Box, will be based out of Vancouver, Canada. EA has tapped Daniel McCulloch, who was previously the head…
Bowser’s Fury is a meaty 3D Mario adventure
January 27, 2021
When Super Mario 3D World comes to the Switch on February 12, it comes with a bonus campaign: Bowser’s Fury. So … what exactly is Bowser’s Fury?
I’ve been able to play through the adventure thanks to a code I got from Nintendo, so I can tell you! Bowser’s Fury may not be the length of a full-sized Mario adventure. It’s not as long as, say, Super Mario Odyssey. But it’s also much more…
Electronic Arts revealed today that it is opening new development studio called Full Circle to build the next game in the Skate series. Full Circle joins EA Sports and Respawn Entertainment as the publisher’s third developer in Vancouver.
Former Xbox Live boss Daniel…
Roblox CEO Dave Baszucki wants to inhabit the metaverse – an online place where we work and play and entertain ourselves. He has dreamed about it for a long time, and he has so many followers now that Roblox will likely be one of the most credible candidates for building…
The European Union’s joint consumer program has urged an investigation into the Nintendo Switch Joy-Con drift issue after it received almost 25,000 complaints from across the continent. Drift occurs when the Joy-Cons don’t communicate properly with the console or when they start to register inputs by themselves, such as a character moving without a player touching a thumbstick.
The…
