Zynga acquired Wild Needle, a casual game company that had backing from Playdom co-founder Rick Thompson, according to TechCrunch.
We’ve heard that the purchase price was $3.8 million, but the companies involved still haven’t acknowledged the deal. Wild Needle was …
Square Enix reported a profit for its fiscal year that ended March 31 thanks to sales of its Final Fantasy XIII-2 and Deus Ex: Human Revolution titles.
Shao Khan was defeated, Earth Realm was saved, and Bill Clinton was getting "special service" in the Oval Office. It was 1993, and the colorful cast of Mortal Kombat II was unemployed. What happened? Did they go on food stamps? Beg for loose change? Or, god forbid, get a real job?
Video games can easily be art; the amazing works on display at UCLA's 2012 Game Art Festival prove it.
More weird copy writing from Walmart.com. Unlike those last ones, however, these are real.
Scans from Japanese magazine CoroCoro (via Serebii.net) have revealed a handful of plot details about the upcoming pair of monster-catching games for the Nintendo DS.
This recipe for mushroom stew is a bit more complicated than the version found in Minecraft, but it still looks delicious
The former president of Microsoft's gaming and devices division spoke to a captive audience about how to create entrepreneurial projects within a larger company. During that talk, he touched on the Xbox 360's early troubles and how that affected him personally.
Welcome to GamesBeat’s Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition guide. Below you’ll find information on how to unlock all of the game’s achievements, as well as some extra tips and tricks for making Minecraft your subservient drudge. As we noted in our …
In this week's Community Spotlight, we look at the precursor to Journey and Flower, listen to some of last year's best soundtracks, visit the realm of Neverwinter, and do science. (Lemons not included.)
In multiplayer, the art of the insta-kill makes students out of even master gamers. Check out this video showcasing a short collection of moves from various games.
Penn State University student Kevin Swanson talks to GamesBeat about his real-life Portal turret and reveals the role his Portal-obsessed professor had in its origin.
Updated with pictures of the machine's development.
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Editor's Pick A selection of 2012's most anticipated releases, written in the style of Walmart.com's hilarious Diablo III product description.
If you plan on playing Lord of the Rings Online or Dungeons & Dragons Online in the near future, you'll be hearing music that came to life by way of composer Chance Thomas' brain...mixed metaphors and all.
If gamers could dream up their fantasy all-star multiplayer game, a live-action version would probably end up looking like this, with a mash-up of Halo, Team Fortress 2, Mass Effect 3, and a surprise guest at the end.
Funcom's upcoming massively multiplayer game The Secret World leans heavily on conspiracy theories and circles-within-circles storytelling. But first, a few seaborne creatures need airing out.
News Blips for May 11, 2012. Sony's shares dip 6.1 percent, Capcom thinks Resident Evil 6 will sell 7 million copies, and Eden Games closes its doors.
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.
Minecrafters have recreated the beautiful town of Narshe from Final Fantasy VI.
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