If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best games stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.
As the gamification industry continues to grow, it looks to game designers for help and advice.
Google’s freshly announced Nexus Q media streamer may be designed for music and movies, but developers have already used the device for something different: games.
Philippe Hausler, a developer at software company Apportable, managed to get the Android game Swords …
Editor's Pick Will the red ocean strategy work for Zynga? The sharks are in the water as the social game giant goes head-on against competitors.
For much of this year, the number of downloads in the Apple App Store has dropped, and the cost of acquiring new users — the basic marketing that developers do in order to get people to buy apps or virtual …
Graphics are great, and good writing is important. But if you really want to sell me on a game, give me a superb soundtrack.
I bet a lot of you feel the same way. That's why our latest Bitmob Wants …
A few weeks ago, I wrote about three games I'm too afraid to play (I forget what the name of that article was, but I'm sure it wasn't on-the-nose at all). One of those fearful titles was From Software's PlayStation 3-exclusive …
While I’m nowhere near the level of the best fighting-game players in the world, I’d like to believe that I am a somewhat knowledgeable and decent competitor. I enjoy going into training mode and trying different techniques out. I wrote …
A clever fan has recreated the intense "Truck Ambush" trailer from Naughty Dog's The Last of Us in Little Big Planet 2.
Delaware authorized online gambling today, as the state Senate approved a bill by a 14-6 vote to allow online betting in the state.
The bill narrowly passed the required three-fifths majority. The measure heads to Gov. Jack Markell for his …
Sadly, this doesn't exist. The artist behind this amazing mock-up is an evil genius. If I could send my 3DS to him with the promise that he could make good on his Photoshop design, I would.
Artist Bjørn van der Linden created …
Game startup Gaikai streamed the high-end first-person shooter Bulletstorm to the Chrome web browser today in a demo at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco.
Normally, you have to play such games using a console and game disc or …
We’d like to formally introduce our judges for the Who’s Got Game contest for the industry’s best game startup. They include:
Ann Burkett is the chief executive of the Game Dojos Accelerator and chair of the Silicon Valley Independent Game …
Radical Entertainment, a 20-year-old game studio that recently made the Prototype 2 console game for Activision Publishing, has shut down.
Audio designer Rob Bridgett, who worked at the Vancouver-based studio, confirmed the news on Twitter. Radical was a subsidiary Activision …
In a major restructuring move, Sega closes offices in France, Germany, Spain, Australia, and the Netherlands while increasing focus on stronger IPs such as Sonic and Total War.
Indie releases represent a step toward a new era of gaming where Call of Duty doesn’t dominate the market, and bigger titles are created with the same love and passion as their less-mainstream counterparts.
Square Enix plans to launch its console-quality game Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light on the Google Chrome web browser this fall.
Nintendo of America has hired Duncan Orrell-Jones as its new senior vice president of network business, a job that the company sorely needed to fill.
The former Disney Interactive veteran is in charge of online strategy for Nintendo’s 3DS and …
Heyzap, a startup with a mobile social gaming network, is announcing today a way for mobile game developers to reach its network of millions of users.
The cost per install (CPI) program provides mobile game developers with a quick and …
Dawnguard, the new downloadable content for the Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim manages to do something the main game tiptoed around: instilling a sense of urgency to complete the main story missions.
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