Dan Crawley
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Prison Architect looks great on console — here’s a first look at the $19M Early Access darling in action
Running a prison from the comfort of your couch looks surprisingly easy. → Read More
Oculus founder Palmer Luckey: Virtual reality will drive demand for high-end PCs
Oculus Rift launches March 28, and you’ll need some powerful PC hardware to run the virtual reality headset. → Read More
Fallout 4’s latest bad guy is
You’ve got to love the Fallout 4 modding community. → Read More
How Satoru Iwata’s dedication brought Pokémon to the West
Without Satoru Iwata, the Pokémon phenomenon might never have left Japan. → Read More
How Satoru Iwata’s dedication brought Pokémon to the West
Without Satoru Iwata, the Pokémon phenomenon might never have left Japan. → Read More
GamesBeat Rewind 2015: The best video game trailers
If you want to sell games in the $91 billion-and-growing global market, you really need a great trailer. → Read More
6 years on, Noby Noby Boy’s bizarre stretching quest is finally over
Girl is finally back on Earth — 2,489 days after she left to connect the planets. → Read More
Teacher turns class into a video game — and now every student is passing
It’s tough being a teacher. Kids have so many distractions in their lives, and it's getting harder to engage tech-savvy students with more traditional subjects. → Read More
Cards Against Humanity made $70,000 on Black Friday by selling nothing
It’s amazing what people will spend on during Black Friday. → Read More
Cards Against Humanity made $70,000 on Black Friday by selling nothing
It’s amazing what people will spend on during Black Friday. → Read More
Star Wars: Battlefront’s $50 season pass features 16 multiplayer maps — four more than the base game
If you want the full Star Wars: Battlefront experience, you’ll need to spend $110. → Read More
The Call of Duty: Black Ops III cover star is actually a Phoenix reserve police officer
One of the year’s biggest video game releases has turned Phoenix reserve police officer Andy McDermott into a local celebrity. → Read More
Deadly Premonition creator Swery is taking a health-related break from game development
Hidetaka Suehiro, the writer and director of cult hit Deadly Premonition, today announced that he’s stepping aside from game development, at least for a while. → Read More
My daughter took on Dash and Dot, the kid-friendly robots that teach programming
Before my daughter got to test out Dash and Dot, our dogs were already getting to know them. → Read More
Syfy cancels Defiance TV show, but the game will live on
Defiance was an attempt to merge the worlds of TV and video games, but only the game remains. → Read More
How one VR developer’s beating motion sickness by going back to role-playing game basics
I have a problem with virtual reality. The fact is that, more often than not, it makes me feel very sick. I know I’m not alone, and it’s a serious problem for VR game developers to deal with. → Read More
Prison Architect has already earned $19M, and it doesn’t release until next week
It’s rare to find a game that’s a financial success before it’s even launched, but Prison Architect is a great example of the early access sales model. → Read More
The inside story of the long-lost South Park game
Ten years ago, a small developer in Eugene, Oregon -- Buzz Monkey Software -- started making a South Park game for PlayStation 2 and Xbox. That game never made it through development, and we glimpsed it in action for the first time this weekend, via footage from an recently discovered Xbox development kit. → Read More
10 years later, we find out what happened to the lost South Park game
Ten years ago, a small developer in Portland, Oregon -- Buzz Monkey Software -- started making a South Park game for PlayStation 2 and Xbox. That game never made it through development, and we glimpsed it in action for the first time this weekend, via footage from an recently discovered Xbox development kit. → Read More
How Toca Boca got 100M mobile downloads by putting kids first
Last week, Toca Boca hit a major 100M download milestone with its range of kids mobile games. The Swedish company -- with offices in Stockholm as well as San Francisco and New York -- has positioned itself to compete with major kids developers like Disney and Nickelodeon, and it's achieved that in just four years with no licensing deals. → Read More