Hello! I’m GamesBeat’s Culture Editor. Over the past decade I’ve written for various sites and magazines such as gamesTM, PC Zone, X360, and Destructoid. Even though I own them all, my favorite console is (still) the Sega Saturn. I mostly write unique game guides, top 10-type posts, and editorials exploring or celebrating gaming culture.

 

I also co-founded an indie game company and am currently working on Z., a crowd-funded zombie trading card game, among others.

 

Full disclosure: Crystal Dynamics Community Manager Meagan Marie is my girlfriend and to avoid any conflicts I do not cover Crystal Dynamics news or products (such as Tomb Raider) in my articles. http://venturebeat.com/ethics-statement/

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Skyrim’s Dawnguard expansion finally available for PC

The expansion sees a powerful vampire lord attempting to use the titular Elder Scrolls to vanquish the sun forever.

Supercross champion Jeremy McGrath pledges profits from new game to bone marrow foundation

The act of charity comes after McGrath's wife found a marrow donor to help treat her recent Leukemia diagnosis.

New Silent Hill film sequel goes 3D in time for Halloween (trailer)

If you're looking forward to seeing someone have their skin ripped off or get dissected by barbed wire in 3D, Silent Hill: Revelation is probably your kind of movie.

New Dead or Alive 5 trailer is either exploiting women or celebrating bunnies

Publisher Tecmo Koei, unsurprisingly, is promoting scantily clad fisticuffs once more as its latest 3D fighter, Dead or Alive 5, nears a September 25 release.

Profiling the Facebook gamer: Who’s buying what and how often? (infographic)

The who, what, when, where, and why as it relates to players spending money on Facebook games.

Nobody parties like Nintendo (video)

When you see a giant pink blob bouncing around in a mosh pit, it's impossible not to raise your iPad and capture the moment.

San Diego Comic-Con costume gallery: Games, movies…and latex

The following gallery showcases some of the best the three different factions (comics, games, movies) Comic-Con had to offer this year.

Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition 1.7.3 update and skin pack coming — play as a Creeper!

Over 40 new skins are coming to Minecraft, including familiar faces from Halo, Gears of War, and more.

Resident Evil 6 demo goes live: Take all three heroes for a spin

A demo for Capcom's Resident Evil 6 has been made available to anyone with a Xbox 360 retail copy of the publisher's recently released Dragon's Dogma.

Guild Wars 2 release confirmed for August

Guild Wars 2 publisher NCSoft and developer ArenaNet announced today that the long-awaited massively multiple online PC title finally has a release date.

Reminder: This is why everyone hated Mass Effect 3

Tomorrow sees the release of the Extended Cut of Mass Effect 3. Here's a bunch of random images to remind us why we hated it in the first place!

These animal-shaped iPod speakers are stupid and I want them all!

What is it about taking something normal and making it resemble a piglet that makes it so desirable?

A Game of Phones: Google Play and iOS wage bloody war on each other (infographic)

Is the iTunes app store the World of Warcraft of the mobile industry?

Redbox reveals game rental stats and trends (exclusive infographic)

Last year, Redbox turned its sight on video game rentals in a big way, and has shared some recent stats from that endeavor with GamesBeat.

Minecraft Xbox 360 Edition update fixes zombie pigmen, adds auto-save

Minecraft Xbox 360 Edition has gotten a solid patch fixing or adding a number of key features.

Game of Thrones and other such geekery to be featured in “retro” art gallery

GamesBeat previously interviewed Pauline Acaline, co-founder and creative designer at 72pins, to learn about the process, legalities, and business model of using old Nintendo Entertainment Cartridges as art canvases. Now the team is taking their signature retro pixel art on …

The 5 different games you’ll be playing in Dishonored (preview)

I’m certainly not the first to say that Dishonored is a blatant amalgamation of other games. Though publisher Bethesda Softworks (Rogue Warrior, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim) and developer Arkane Studios (Dark Messiah of Might & Magic, BioShock 2) have …

AStudyIn aims to bring “universal education to everyone” (exclusive)

VentureBeat sat down with Mary Wu, AStudyIn’s founder, to briefly discuss the origins of the concept, the difficulties of an educational startup, and how to incentive getting your learn on.

You’ll have to buy 5 copies of Dishonored to get all this exclusive pre-order game content (gallery)

We're not especially keen on substantial in-game content and bonuses like this being impossible to obtain without buying five different copies of the same game.

Battlefield 3 gets numerous tweaks and fixes, just in time for new $50 “Premium” service

Good news for ongoing Battlefield 3 players: a massive title update will be released on June 4. Like previous title updates, the changelog is quite extensive, and addresses a number of issues players have been debating lately.