DeanBeat Reviews Previews and Interviews
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How ILMxLAB and Oculus will bring Vader Immortal to life in virtual reality
Disney’s ILMxLAB and Facebook’s Oculus VR announced this week that the Oculus Quest wireless virtual reality headset will debut in…
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Call of Duty: Black Ops 4’s Blackout battle royale mode is both accessible and fun
It’s confession time. I’m terrible at Fortnite and PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. But I’m better at Call of Duty: Black Ops 4’s…
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Starlink: Battle for Atlas hands-on preview — On my mission to save toys-to-life
Ubisoft showed off its new entry in the “toys-to-life” market, Starlink: Battle for Atlas. I played it at a preview event, and…
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Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey — how you’ll battle mythical creatures and fight massive battles on land and sea
I played a long preview of Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey, and it gave me a good feel for what the massive…
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Total War: Three Kingdoms hands-on — Escaping a deadly night ambush
Total War: Three Kingdoms isn’t coming out until the spring of 2019, but Sega’s Creative Assembly studio showed me one…
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Stone tokes up a take on the hardboiled detective genre
Convict Games‘ narrative adventure Stone is a colorful noir, infused with Australian slang and starring anthropomorphic animals. It’s the studio’s…
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Donut County doesn’t glaze over gentrification
Donut County is an adorable game where you play a hole in the ground. Minimalistic though that may sound, it’s…
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Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 beta — hands-on with the tense Heist multiplayer mode
Treyarch unveiled a new Heist mode in its second beta test for Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 multiplayer. I’ve…
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider hands-on — 4 hours of gritty, epic jungle gameplay
Tomb Raider has tombs again. And that’s how Shadow of the Tomb Raider starts out, with the iconic Lara Croft…
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The IndieBeat: Corona Black’s style comes from mech punches, space Westerns, and color blindness
Corona Black is relentlessly stylish. Indie studio Ota Imon has remixed and amped up the aesthetic of Japanese comic books…
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