The gloriously flawed Sleeping Dogs is an interactive Hong Kong action flick (review)

August 14, 2012 12:01 AM Eduardo Moutinho
Eduardo Moutinho

Square Enix's Sleeping Dogs is a solid, mission-to-mission, open-world action experience. You’ll hurt a lot of thugs, drive a lot of cars recklessly, and work for a lot of shady characters — all while kicking and capping through a you’ll-see-everything-coming-by-a-mile storyline.

Black Ops II multiplayer is all about change (hands-on preview)

August 13, 2012 11:00 PM Dean Takahashi
Dean Takahashi

GamesBeat goes hands-on with Call of Duty: Black Ops II's multiplayer, which allows for better customization of your killer machines and brings eSports to the franchise.

3 books that should become video games

August 13, 2012 9:03 PM Mark Purcell
Mark Purcell
(Community Writer)

The video game industry has tapped several mediums for inspiration including film, TV, and comic books. But we haven't seen much in the way of classical literature. Sure, we've seen Dante's Inferno and Warriors: Legends of Troy, but neither of …

NASA scientists drive Mars rover Curiosity as if playing a 3D game

August 13, 2012 7:04 PM Dean Takahashi
Dean Takahashi

NASA's scientists have taken advantage of 3D graphics and game-like simulations to figure out how to control the rover Curiosity on the rocky Martian landscape.

What’s better than the Olympics? 8-bit Olympics.

August 13, 2012 7:03 PM Michael Minotti
Michael Minotti
(Community Writer)

The Olympics are officially over, but you can cure your summer games withdrawal with this video. Who needs boring, regular Olympics when you can have 8-bit Olympics? I'll take the latter any day. Real people are so complicated and gross …

Nintendo announces 2012 handheld gaming lineup: Professor Layton, Paper Mario, and more

August 13, 2012 5:35 PM Sam Barsanti
Sam Barsanti

Nintendo's list of upcoming handheld games features the glorious return of Paper Mario, Professor Layton, and Imagine Babyz.

Rock Band Blitz’s 25 song tracklist spans multiple genres

August 13, 2012 3:44 PM Mike Minotti
Mike Minotti

Whether you'd rather head bang to some Iron Maiden or gently sway along to Elton John, the tracklist for Rock Band Blitz has got you covered.

14-year-old programmer creates iPhone game to help predict the 2012 election

August 13, 2012 2:30 PM Jeffrey Grubb
Jeffrey Grubb

A teenager made an iPhone game that taps into America's divisive political climate and its love of mascots.

The Secret World should’ve been a single-player RPG

August 13, 2012 1:41 PM Layton Shumway
Layton Shumway
(Community Writer)

I figured out The Secret World's secret about six hours into my free trial last weekend.

Ironically, it happened while I was trying (and failing) to puzzle through one of the massively multiplayer game's unique "investigation” quests — riddles that …

World of Tanks: Generals is Wargaming’s new card-based strategy MMO for browsers

August 13, 2012 1:24 PM Stephanie Carmichael
Stephanie Carmichael

World of Tanks: Generals represents Wargaming's move into browser-based platforms.

The Neo Geo returns as a portable system that won’t murder your wallet, just kicks it a little

August 13, 2012 1:09 PM Mike Minotti
Mike Minotti

If you have $200 to drop on an expensive nostalgia trip, you could probably do worse than the Neo Geo X Gold, a new handheld machine that plays classic Neo Geo games on its 4.3 inch screen or on your television.

Hybrid is a fast-paced but thoughtful shooter that suffers from some technical hiccups (review)

August 13, 2012 1:01 PM Giancarlo Valdes
Giancarlo Valdes

Hybrid wears its cover shooter heritage with pride, while introducing some genuinely interesting ideas to the genre.

Coco controller brings traditional video game controls to the iPhone

August 13, 2012 11:55 AM Mike Minotti
Mike Minotti

As big as gaming has become on smartphones, the lack of buttons or analog sticks can make more traditional experiences difficult and clunky. A new device, coco, is aiming to fix that problem.

Wikipad: The company (and tablet) that is bringing console gaming to Android part 2 (exclusive)

August 13, 2012 10:00 AM James Pikover
James Pikover

In part two of our interview with Wikipad's James Bower and Fraser Townley, we learn more about this new Android tablet/game console and how they view the market, Windows 8, and Ouya.

Dust: An Elysian Tail is beautiful but drowns in repetition (review)

August 13, 2012 9:00 AM Jeffrey Grubb
Jeffrey Grubb

The last game in Microsoft's 2012 Xbox Live Summer of Arcade is gorgeous to look at, but is it anything more than that?

YoYo Games builds monetization and analytics services into its game development tools

August 13, 2012 6:00 AM Dean Takahashi
Dean Takahashi

YoYo Games is making it easy to tap monetization and analytics services from within its cross-platform game development tools.

Video games have more storytelling potential than any other medium

August 13, 2012 12:07 AM Ethan Clevenger
Ethan Clevenger
(Community Writer)

Recently, I came across Ico: Castle in the Mist, a novelization based on the critically acclaimed PlayStation 2 title Ico. This struck me as odd. I picked up the book and gave it a once over, and after a couple of …