Web videos are turning into the preferred way to drop news about a new game. That's why Meteor Entertainment has teamed up with gamer video network Machinima to promote Hawken, a highly anticipated free-to-play online game coming this December.
Expectations are mixed for the video game event of the year, the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) conference taking place in Los Angeles next week. We’ll have a crew of 10 GamesBeat writers and editors physically covering the event, so you …
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment is formally confirming today that it is making LEGO: Lord of the Rings, a video game that brings together LEGO toys and J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic books as well as Peter Jackson’s award-winning movies.
This is targeted …
DC Comics’ superheroes were never eviscerated quite like this on the illustrated page. But the kid gloves are off in Injustice: Gods Among Us, the newest fighting game starring DC heroes such as Superman and Batman.
From NetherRealm Studios, the …
LucasArts has taken the wraps off a new game dubbed Star Wars: 1313. The cryptic title is a “third-person cinematic action adventure game” and is named after Level 1313, a “ruthless criminal underground deep below the surface of the planet …
Hitman Absolution is shaping up to be one of the most interesting stealth games of the year. Square Enix showed it off recently and we got a hands-on preview of a level where the cold-blooded assassin Agent 47 has to …
E3 is just around the corner and that means it’s time for another eye-popping Tomb Raider trailer.
In the video, you can see the young Lara Croft grow as a character from vulnerable victim to a seasoned killer. The Lara …
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment plans to launch a superhero fighting game, Injustice: Gods Among Us, in 2013, according to GameSpot. The title is being created by NetherRealm Studios, maker of last year’s popular Mortal Kombat reboot.
In this game, DC …
Trip Hawkins, who resigned on Sunday as chief executive of mobile and social game maker Digital Chocolate, was trying to form an alliance dubbed FreeGameLeaders to generate free traffic for browser-based games. It was like the “rebel alliance” fighting against …
Kixeye has been one of a handful of large game developers that has been so successful on Facebook that it has never expanded beyond the social network. But the San Francisco company announced today that it will partner with Ngmoco …
Dell is launching a wave of new Latitude laptops and OptiPlex desktops for business users today. They include a laptop that can reach up to 32.7 hours of battery life (with an extra battery pack), getting well past the day-long …
As a student at the Harvard Business School, Bom Kim asked his entrepreneurship professor if he should drop put of school to do a startup. The professor told him no. But Kim dropped out anyway, and it was the best …
Ubisoft has settled a copyright infringement case with author John Beiswenger, who claimed that big parts of the Assassin’s Creed video game story were taken from his book, Link.
The out-of-court settlement comes shortly after Beiswenger settled a related lawsuit …
Microsoft said today that it has generated more than $56 billion at retail from its game business, and it has sold 67 million Xbox 360 consoles since 2005. It has also sold more than 19 million Kinect motion sensors since …
Leisure Suit Larry creators Al Lowe and Paul Trowe say they plan to sue WiseCrack Games today to shut down their $500,000 Kickstarter crowdfunding project because it infringes on their copyright and misrepresent's Lowe's participation in the project.
Haptic feedback, or touch vibration sensors, have been built into game controllers for years. But now they’re also being used to improve the quality 0f bass sounds in high-end audio headphones.
Artificial Muscle is unveiling the audio application for its …
Buzzword or not, gamification, or the use of game-like rewards to engage customers and employees, is getting real. Badgeville, the creator of a popular gamification platform, has raised $25 million in a third round of funding.
The large amount of …
Brands have embraced “gamification,” or using game-like behavior in non-game applications, as a way to engage their audiences. That is why gamification vendor Badgeville has more than 165 customers and is announcing today that it has raised $25 million in …
Jason Rubin, the co-founder of famous game developer Naughty Dog, has been named the president of struggling video game publisher THQ.
Rubin will report to Brian Farrell, who remains chairman and chief executive. But Danny Bilson, who has headed THQ’s …
Trip Hawkins, a pioneer of video games, has resigned from Digital Chocolate, the mobile and social game company that he founded.
