Nintendo has released flashy special edition Switch consoles before, but its latest might be particularly appealing if you’re a fantasy fan. The gaming giant is releasing a limited edition Monster Hunter Rise Switch on March 26th (more on availability later) whose design can best be described as… elaborate. The Joy-Cons and the Switch back are festooned in patterns and symbols, while the…
Plex Arcade streaming service launches with classic Atari games
January 27, 2021
The home-video streaming platform Plex is getting into games with Plex Arcade. This is a new service that Plex members can use to stream games from the cloud. This enables media lovers to build a digital library of movies, TV, photos, music, and now games all in one…
Microsoft debuted the Xbox Series X/S during its fiscal Q2, and that pushed the company’s gaming revenue up 51% year-over-year. But the tech behemoth’s strength is not only in the console hardware — it’s also seeing continued gains in software and services.
Xbox…
The Elder Scrolls Online: Blackwood launches in June
January 27, 2021
ZeniMax Online Studios revealed information for The Elder Scrolls: Online’s yearlong Gates of Oblivion adventure, including details for the Blackwood chapter release.
The Elder Scrolls Online debuted in 2014 and has a dedicated following thanks to a steady release of content updates. ESO got rid of its subscription years ago, instead making money by charging for big content drops like this…
Gorgeous RPG 'Haven' expands to Switch and PS4 on February 4th
January 27, 2021
Haven is centered around a pair of lovers on a lost planet, so it’s fitting that it’ll arrive on more platforms just ahead of Valentine’s Day. The sci-fi RPG will land on Nintendo Switch, PS4 and Epic Games Store on February 4th. It debuted on Steam, GOG…
Plex Arcade features a bunch of old-school Atari games
January 27, 2021
Media streaming service Plex is moving beyond TV, movies, audio and photos. Starting today, you can play a bunch of Atari games through a Plex Arcade subscription. Plex has teamed up with Parsec to offer classics like Asteroids, Centipede, Missile Command and Super…
Another quarter, another booming earnings report from Microsoft. But what’s notable for Q2 2021is that it isn’t just the cloud driving the company forward this time. The company reported revenues of $43.1 billion, up 17 percent from last year. That’s $2.9 billion more than what analysts were expecting. Even more impressive, its profit jumped by 33 percent to reach $15.5 billion. During the…
In machine learning, mel-filterbanks — fixed, hand-engineered representations of sound — are often used to train algorithms that classify sound. Decades after the design of mel-filterbanks, research shows that they exhibit desirable mathematical properties for…
On Friday morning, Microsoft announced it was increasing the price of its Xbox Live Gold subscription service. By Friday evening, it reversed that decision and then some. In an update to its news post about the price change, the company explained that it had “messed up.”…
GamesBeat Decides: The best (and worst) ‘core’ Mario games
January 24, 2021
Many Mario games are some of the best pieces of digital entertainment ever created. The series seemed like an obvious choice for a new tier list-making video series … so here we are.
My cohort Jeff Grubb and I rank every game in the core Mario series. What does “core” mean? It’s whatever we say it means.
There is some logic to our process, which we explain in the video above. And, yes…
