GamesBeat weekly roundup: Angry Birds, the Ouya console, and Penny Arcade’s ad-free gambit

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.

BioWare brings back Britannia with Ultima Forever: Quest for the Avatar

BioWare and EA announce Ultima Forever: Quest for the Avatar, a reboot of one of the most classic and beloved role-playing franchises within the industry.

Mass Effect 3: Earth downloadable content targets more warzones, recruits new soldiers, and boosts difficulty

Mass Effect 3's upcoming downloadable content pack, named Earth, brings the co-op multiplayer slugfests to the homefront with three Earth-based maps, new weapons, and a new (and punishing) difficulty tier.

Reminder: This is why everyone hated Mass Effect 3

Tomorrow sees the release of the Extended Cut of Mass Effect 3. Here's a bunch of random images to remind us why we hated it in the first place!

Mass Effect 3 Extended Cut downloadable content releases June 26

All the questions left by Mass Effect 3's obtuse endings find the closure they need in developer BioWare's latest (and free) Extended Cut downloadable content releasing June 26.

Star Wars: The Old Republic free character transfers begin today

Free character transfers are now available in BioWare's massively multiplayer online role-playing game Star Wars: The Old Republic for players stuck on low population servers.

GamesBeat Weekly Roundup

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.

Jon Radoff takes Game Of Thrones to Facebook (exclusive interview)

When you think of Game of Thrones, you might think of the HBO series, now in its second season. You might think of the fantasy novels by George RR Martin. You might even think of the big triple-A console/PC RPG …

The DeanBeat: Can Microsoft’s Kinect gain cred from hardcore gamers?

Microsoft’s Kinect has always held out tantalizing promises. As a user interface, it brings computing devices to the edge of greatness but falls just a little short of our dreams of the Star Trek holodeck or the cool transparent, gesture-controlled …

Microsoft’s Kudo Tsunoda on broadening Kinect games to hardcore fans (interview)

Kudo Tsunoda says that more hardcore gaming experiences are coming to Microsoft's Kinect motion-sensing system this year.

GamesBeat Weekly Roundup

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.

BioWare: Old Republic server transfers in early summer

BioWare says character transfers for Star Wars: The Old Republic launches in early summer after a round of preliminary testing.

Star Wars: The Old Republic launches in 38 additional countries

Star Wars: The Old Republic is officially launching in 38 additional countries throughout Europe and the Middle East, developer BioWare and publisher Electronic Arts today announced.

PAX East 2012: BioWare faces its (not-so) angry fans

BioWare has a lot of explaining to do, and it knows it.

The developer’s Mass Effect 3 team sat with fans during PAX East game conference yesterday to talk about the title, which has been the target of copious Internet …

Mass Effect 3 DLC adds playable Geth characters and new stages/weapons

Holy shit! I actually have something good to write about Mass Effect 3. BioWare has announced the Resurgence Pack, which adds new multiplayer characters, stages, and weapons....

GamesBeat Weekly Roundup

Here are some of the stories that ran on GamesBeat this week. We’re running more articles exclusively in the GamesBeat section of VentureBeat, particularly when they’re mainly of interest to our game readers. The broader-interest posts will continue to run …

Stung by fans, EA/BioWare will create new content to clarify ending of Mass Effect 3

Struck by fan backlash over Mass Effect 3′s controversial ending, Electronic Arts’ BioWare division said today it will provide free downloadable content with additional ending cinematics for the blockbuster video game.

BioWare is weathering a huge protest from fans who …

The 6 best game endings of all-time (and how BioWare would ruin them)

Video game endings tend to feel a lot like an afterthought. Whereas a bad movie only ever consumes two hours of your life, games can have you playing upwards of 100+ hours before reaching the finale, and quite often that …

GamesBeat Weekly Roundup

Here are some of the stories that ran on GamesBeat this week. We’re running more articles exclusively in the GamesBeat section of VentureBeat, particularly when they’re mainly of interest to our game readers. The broader-interest posts will continue to run …

Mass Effect 3: Character deaths

Now that Mass Effect 3 has been out for nearly a month, GamesBeat thought you might be interested to see what would have happened if Commander Shepard went right instead of left, zigged instead of zagged.

Below you'll find all the various death scenes in the game (for characters that mattered, anyway).