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GamesBeat weekly roundup: Zynga shuts studio, top exec leaves EA, and Ouya ships March 28

If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best video game stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.

Required Listening: Fire Emblem, Crysis 3, and interview with Tomb Raider composer Jason Graves

Required Listening is a new monthly feature celebrating game music and the people who create it. This month we look at Fire Emblem: Awakening, Aliens: Colonial Marines, Dead Space 3, and Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance and discuss the emotional inspiration for the new Tomb Raider score with composer Jason Graves.

The peculiar origin of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance’s heavy-metal sound (interview)

Game and television composer Jamie Christopherson gives us some insight into the peculiar heavy metal sound track in Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. Metal music isn't Christopherson's strong suit, but Platinum Games thought he was perfect for the job.

GamesBeat weekly roundup: Sony reveals PlayStation 4, House GOP blasts game research, and Crysis 3 review

If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best video game stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.

GamesBeat weekly roundup: Luigi turns 30, and Obama says we need more gamers

If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best video game stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.

Celebrate Valentine’s Day the gaming way

Happy Valentine's Day! Developers around the world are joining in the celebration with their own game-related cards. Why not give one to the gamer in your life?

How to meet celebrities and chat up girls, Seduce Me style

Simply put, Seduce Me is porn. It's incredibly dull, tedious, and theoretically erotic to someone, somewhere. This article is a feble attempt to tell a story while exploring a mansion full of nauseatingly stereotypical women ripped out of adolescent fantasy.

GamesBeat weekly roundup: D.I.C.E. 2013, Dead Space 3, and game investments take a dive

If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best video game stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.

GamesBeat weekly roundup: Disney shuts down Junction Point, GTA V delayed

If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best video game stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.

Required listening: Ni no Kuni, Anarchy Reigns, and an interview with Aliens: Colonial Marines composer Kevin Riepl

Required listening is a new monthly feature focusing on game soundtracks and the people who lovingly create them. For the first edition, we'll take a look at Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch, DmC: Devil May Cry, and Anarchy Reigns, as well as an in-depth interview with Aliens: Colonial Marines composer Kevin Riepl.

GamesBeat weekly roundup: THQ asset auction, Legend of Zelda in HD, and Atari is bankrupt

If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best video game stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.

Build your own Batcave in DC Universe Online’s Home Turf update

DC Universe Online's latest expansion Home Turf lets players build and defend their lairs from invading enemies and meet up with friends.

GamesBeat weekly roundup: Disney Infinity, torsos, and violence in video games

If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best video game stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.

GamesBeat weekly roundup: THQ, GameStick, and Project Shield

If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best video game stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.

Seduce Me makes sex seem really boring (review)

Seduce Me is an erotic strategy game that was one of the first removed from Steam Greenlight for violating Valve's regulations on explicit content. That is the most exciting thing about it.

GamesBeat weekly roundup: THQ is bankrupt, Zynga shuts down 11 games

If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best video game stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.

Best of GamesBeat 2012 roundup

If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best video game stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.

The best video game soundtracks of 2012

This was an outstanding year for game soundtracks. Whether chiptune or orchestral, the top 10 soundtracks of the year are beautiful and moving in vastly different ways.

GamesBeat weekly roundup: THQ bankrupt, Machinima downsizes, and Shaq is back

If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best video game stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.

GamesBeat weekly roundup: GLaDOS in Pacific Rim, more Black Ops II zombies, and Portal on a calculator

If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best video game stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.