Preview
Dead Rising 4’s quirky humor will cure ‘The Walking Dead’ blues
Overwatch heads to South Korea’s prestigious esports stadium as part of ESL’s Intel Extreme Masters
The Turtle Beach Stream Mic actually sounds way better than I thought (update)
Razer Kraken 7.1 V2 upgrades the comfort and sound but keeps the sub-$100 price
GamesBeat weekly roundup: Final Fantasy XV is a hit, and Pokémon Go could be getting a monster update
Paradox hooks up with Tencent to take Cities: Skylines and Stellaris to China
YouTube has muted The Game Awards due to a copyright claim
Star Wars: The Old Republic launches Knights of the Eternal Throne expansion
The Game Awards trailer roundup: Zelda, Mass Effect, and Death Stranding
Dauntless is a free-to-play take on Monster Hunter from ex-BioWare and Riot devs
Star Wars holochess-inspired AR game Hologrid: Monster Battle hits closed beta
Blizzard fixes Hearthstone: Mean Streets of Gadgetzan pack bug and will compensate players
Watch us get a little silly as we open 59 Mean Streets of Gadgetzan card packs in Hearthstone
Wargaming tanks up its mobile arm with Boomlagoon acquisition
Oculus Touch: 53 launch window games for the new motion controllers
Square Enix: Final Fantasy XV is the fastest-selling game ever for the series
How Montreal’s Behaviour Interactive moved up the food chain from outsourcing to making original games
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
PlayFab raises $3.1 million for back-end service for game developers
Iam8bit announces game-related art showcase for the Game Developers Conference
Super Evil Megacorp starts team-franchise program to energize Vainglory’s esports scene
Opinion
I’m going to miss Hearthstone’s vanilla Arena meta
Gears of War 4 is testing crossplay between Xbox One and PC
No Man’s Sky is better — but the Foundation update might be too late
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
Does Final Fantasy XV make a good first impression? GamesBeat Decides
Ark Park takes Ark: Survival Evolved and turns it into a VR dino school
Lego’s Minecraft-like Worlds will leave Early Access and launch on consoles and Steam in February
Facebook brings ‘instant’ HTML5 games like Pac-Man to your News Feed and Messenger
PlayStation 4 beats Xbox One for the top-selling electronics product on Cyber Monday in the U.S.
Exclusive
Octogeddon’s eight-armed destructive gameplay is hilarious
Xbox beat PlayStation as the top-selling console online on Black Friday in the U.S.
Eleague’s season two Counter-Strike playoffs start November 30
Hitman gets update to improve offline play
Konami stokes PES 2017’s esports ambitions with a free-to-play version
Hearthstone’s Mean Streets of Gadgetzan expansion launches December 1
Review
Logitech’s G933 Artemis Spectrum Snow is one of the best all-around gaming headsets
Review