The DeanBeat: Halo 4 is the romance of Master Chief and Cortana, disguised as a combat game

Halo has gone from a combat-focused game to an epic love story.

Twitch embeds livestreaming in Sony Online Entertainment’s Planetside 2

Sony Online Entertainment's next big game will feature Twitch's one-click livestreaming

Moga mobile game controller to debut in 7,000 stores (video)

JJ Richards demonstrates the Moga game controller for tablets and smartphones. It debuts in 7,000 stores.

Funny video shows what happens when Apple’s Siri gets jealous (video)

Siri is portrayed as a little tempermental and jealous in this parody video.

OnCam launches professional-grade video platform for brands with huge audiences

The brand, celebrity, retailer, or media company that wants to connect with and capitalize on its millions of fans can turn to OnCam, a brand new video publishing platform that enables live broadcasts to audiences of up to 10 million people.

Acer’s snappy Intel-based Windows 8 tablet: up close and personal (video)

David Hwang of Acer shows off his company's new convertible tablet-laptop today at Intel's tablet event.

90 seconds of combat in Call of Duty: Black Ops II multiplayer (hands-on video)

Check out Dean Takahashi playing Call of Duty: Black Ops II.

VB Weekly: iPhone fans v. Occupy protesters, Red Hot Chili Peppers v. Salesforce

What a week it’s been! Here’s what happened:

Occupy protesters took to Apple store lines to get the word out about the iPhone 5 being a capitalist pig or something.
iOS 6 is a thing now, and we had plenty

The future of MasterCard’s mobile wallet: Instant purchases from within any app (video)

What if you could instantly purchase a product being advertised on an iPad app -- or, even better, what if you could do the same thing for a product featured in a movie as you're watching it.

VB Weekly: All the news this week that wasn’t about iPhones. And then an iPhone.

In our video romp through the week's news, we frolic briefly with the iPhone then cavort through fields of news about the Foo Fighters, Facebook, and Intel's magic fingers.

Magic fingers: SoftKinetic is at the core of Intel’s ‘perceptual computing’ technology (video demo)

Watch a live demo of SoftKinetic's close-range gesture controls.

Hands-on with the new iPhone 5 and iPods (video)

You won't have to wait until the 21st to take a look at Apple's iPhone 5, iPod Touch, and iPod Nano. We got hands-on videos with all three devices, as well as the new maps app and the new panorama feature in the iPhone 5.

Up close with Nokia’s Lumia 920 and 820 (gallery & video)

Nokia today announced its first Windows Phone 8 devices at a New York City press event, the Lumia 920 and Lumia 820.

VB Weekly special edition: It’s the presidential election kickoff video!

Hoo boy, what a week it was! Here’s what you missed:

Twitter tried out some positive reinforcement of the right way to cope with its API changes and rolled out Certified Products.
We rounded up the best apps for election

VB Weekly: Twitter, space, OnLive, and other ups and downs

This week's episode of "VB Weekly" gives context to the upcoming changes to Twitter's API, chronicles the fall of cloud-gaming firm OnLive, takes at look at the funny stuff from Judge Koh at the Apple v. Samsung trail, and goes to space. Space!

Nerd PSA: Save Tesla, spit on NBC, and watch VB Weekly! (or else)

It's Friday, we're in love! But not with The Cure -- not this time at least. And definitely not with NBC. Our affections are more about Nikola Tesla... and Kiss. Look, just watch the video, ok?

Tech business this week: Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, and Samsung (video)

Hot dang, the week is over! Here’s a brief run-down on what happened:

Google bought Wildfire, the Facebook-focused marketing company. Say what?
Facebook stock dropped to a new low. Sigh.
Microsoft took Hotmail out behind the shed and came back

This week in tech business: Mountain lions, seniors, and shares, oh my! (video)

A short video recap of the week's highlights in tech business: Facebook earnings, Twitter outages, Mountain Lion, and more.