Waterdeep: Dragon Heist is Dungeons & Dragons next storyline (updated)
Galactic Civilizations III’s next expansion is a Crusade
How Fire Emblem: Heroes adapted to its new mobile lifestyle
Nintendo will air its first-ever Super Bowl ad to support the launch of the Switch console
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Magic: The Gathering expands its Twitch presence to 36 Pro Tour and other events in 2017
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Torment: Tides of Numenera is a pimple-poppin’ journey in the belly of a transdimensional beast
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Fire Emblem: Heroes is ready to put Nintendo into the free-to-play spotlight
Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire is Obsidian’s first stab at crowdfunding on Fig
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Dauntless’s Owlbear-like Shrike is an homage to a classic D&D beast (update)
Hi-Rez Studios partners with Uproar to get players to keep playing Paladins (update)
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Resident Evil VII’s excellent, chilling design isn’t that scary for someone used to death
Vampires? Meh. Focus Home Interactive’s next role-playing game turns you into a werewolf
Dragon’s Watch remixes the mobile role-playing game style of Asia for the West
Focus Home Interactive enlists Asobo Studio for its mysterious Plague
Nintendo will talk Switch games on January 13
2017 game release-date calendar
Diablo III’s The Darkening of Tristram patch is now live, celebrating series’ 20th anniversary (update)
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GamesBeat managing editor Jason Wilson’s top 10 games of 2016
Galatron brings retro-arcade-style space shooting to Facebook Messenger instant games
Talisman: Digital Edition adds the Martial Artist and Saracen
For Honor cleaves its way to a closed beta test in January
Troll and I is a co-op adventure that pairs two unlikely friends in a grand tale
Obsidian lays off undisclosed number of its Armored Warfare staff
GamesBeat weekly roundup: Final Fantasy XV is a hit, and Pokémon Go could be getting a monster update
Star Wars: The Old Republic launches Knights of the Eternal Throne expansion
Star Wars holochess-inspired AR game Hologrid: Monster Battle hits closed beta
Watch us get a little silly as we open 59 Mean Streets of Gadgetzan card packs in Hearthstone
Transformers: Forged to Fight coming to iOS and Android in spring 2017
Pokémon Go leads list of Google Play’s top trending games of 2016
Hearthstone’s Mean Streets of Gadgetzan expansion is now live in the Americas
Annapurna Pictures forms studio to bring storytelling of films like Her to video games
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I’m going to miss Hearthstone’s vanilla Arena meta
Games of Glory is a competitive top-down team shooter coming to PlayStation 4
Ark: Survival Evolved will launch on PlayStation 4 on December 6
Game Insight invests over $5 million on Facebook Messenger Instant Games
Ark Park takes Ark: Survival Evolved and turns it into a VR dino school
Big Viking Games unveils $10 million fund for Facebook’s new HTML5 Messenger Instant Games
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5 ‘Volo’s Guide to Monsters’ horrors that need to be in video games
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