GamingNews

'State of Decay 2' brings zombie slaying to Steam in early 2020

November 24, 2019
You don’t have to be fully committed to Microsoft’s vision of gaming to play State of Decay 2. The zombie-filled survival game is now slated to come to Steam in early 2020. You won’t have to be worried about finding friends to play, either. The title will support four-person Xbox Live cross-play, so friends who bought the game through the Microsoft Store or on Xbox One can…
Read more
GamingNews

Twitch loses another top streamer, this time to Facebook

November 22, 2019
Yet another high-profile Twitch streamer is jumping ship, but this time it’s to an unusual destination. Jeremy “Disguised Toast” Wang (best known for streaming Apex Legends, Hearthstone and League of Legends) is leaving the service in favor of Facebook.
GamingNews

Razer Junglecat turns my phone into a Nintendo Switch for cloud gaming

November 22, 2019
The way we play games is about to change. Or, at least, that’s the claim from companies with cloud-gaming services. Using Project xCloud or Nvidia GeForce Now, you can stream console-quality releases to any screen, including your phone. But how is anyone supposed to hold both a controller and a phone at the same time? It’s not really gaming anywhere if the form factor discourages me from…
Read more
GamingNews

Arby’s will have Sonic kids meal toys

November 22, 2019
Gotta go fast … to Arby’s. The fast food chain has announced that will give away Sonic the Hedgehog toys with its kids meals in the U.S. from December 1 to February 29. These are toys made of discs, as you can see above, and they feature Sonic and his friends like Tails…
GamingNews

Content Rated By: An Oral History of the ESRB excerpt — “Doom to the Power of Ten”

November 22, 2019
GamesBeat is publishing this exclusive excerpt of Content Rated By: An Oral History of the ESRB. To help commemorate its 25th anniversary, the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) reached out to Blake J. Harris, the best-selling author of Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle That Defined a Generation and The History of the Future: Oculus, Facebook and the Revolution That Swept…
Read more
GamingNews

Fortnite: Save the World's new area is a dungeon crawl

November 21, 2019
Battle royale may well be the most popular mode onFortnite, but the world still needs saving — and now there’s a new way to do it: dungeons.Fornite: Save the Worldhas got a new subterranean area to explore, nestled within Hexylvania. Players can find new weapons and magical loot, plus recruit new heroes to help them battle the hordes of monsters which — like…
Read more