GamesBeat weekly roundup: Zynga shuts studio, top exec leaves EA, and Ouya ships March 28

If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best video game stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.

Required Listening: Fire Emblem, Crysis 3, and interview with Tomb Raider composer Jason Graves

Required Listening is a new monthly feature celebrating game music and the people who create it. This month we look at Fire Emblem: Awakening, Aliens: Colonial Marines, Dead Space 3, and Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance and discuss the emotional inspiration for the new Tomb Raider score with composer Jason Graves.

Tomb Raider hurts so good (review)

Don't listen to the controversy. Tomb Raider is a beautiful and brutal journey that easily ranks as one of the franchise's best entries ... assuming you're not too much of a traditionalist.

Tomb Raider multiplayer keeps Lara Croft fans entertained (hands-on preview)

A decent multiplayer mode will be a pleasant surprise for fans who only expected a great single-player game.

Greenpeace’s Lara Croft clone defends the Arctic in socially aware mobile game

Lara Croft has a new doppelgänger, and she's headed to the Arctic in Greenpeace's new game for iOS.

Lara Croft will invade your Chrome web browser this fall

Square Enix plans to launch its console-quality game Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light on the Google Chrome web browser this fall.

Tomb Raider is not torture porn

A lot of people don't care for the sort of sustained abuse Lara endures in the new Tomb Raider, but don't call it torture porn. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Tomb Raider reboot: Lara Croft comes of age, from bow to gun (preview)

Lara Croft was one of the most iconic video game characters of the past 15 years. But we never really learned how she came to be. In Crystal Dynamics’ remake of Tomb Raider coming in 2013, we’re going to find …

Bringing back Tomb Raider: Our need to fill the old archeologist’s shoes

Indiana Jones inspired both Lara Croft and Nathan Drake, and with the Tomb Raider reboot around the corner, these adventurers are here to stay.

Tomb Raider release date pushed back to Q1 2013

Crystal Dynamics, a subsidiary of publisher Square Enix, says it wants to ensure that it can "fully deliver the very highest quality game."

10 of the most anticipated video games of 2012

Looking back, I think you’d be hard-pressed to find someone who doesn’t agree that 2011 was a great year for video games. It was a year that brought us Portal 2, Batman: Arkham City, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, and …

The best games of E3 2011

We saw lots of video games at the E3 trade show in Los Angeles last week.

Some of them were pretty awesome.

The trip gave us faith that the video game industry will continue to thrive and satisfy loyal fans …