Disney Infinity looks like a Skylanders clone, but its roots go deep at Disney’s Avalanche (interview)

By creating a platform, Disney seeks an answer to a business problem of having too many properties.

Harmonix shifts music gaming again with Disney Fantasia: Music Evolved (hands-on preview)

Disney's classic musical film will come to life in a new form with a motion-controlled exclusive game for Microsoft's consoles.

GamesBeat weekly roundup: Xbox One unveiled, Yahoo acquires a game company

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.

Disney Infinity: Made possible because Disney owns all of this

The Disney conglomeration is using its vast resources to make a game like no one else can. It looks like it might even be fun, too.

Disney’s new Infinity project uses Skylanders-style toys

Disney Interactive is the next big publisher to mix collectible figures and video games with its new Infinity project.

Heroes and villains join forces in Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion (hands-on preview)

In 1990, Sega created Castle of Illusion, a platformer starring Mickey Mouse, for its Genesis system. Now, more than twenty years later, Disney Interactive Studios is using that title as the inspiration for a new 2D sidescroller for the Nintendo 3DS.

Disney Interactive loses less thanks to social games, but still loses

The Walt Disney Company revealed that its Interactive Media division revenues increased 13% from the previous quarter. However, the group still recorded a loss of $70 million in the second fiscal quarter, an improvement over the $115 million loss they posted in the first quarter.

Disney’s Epic Mickey 2 will be a musical (seriously)

Disney Interactive Studios and game designer Warren Spector have revealed a sequel to 2010′s Wii-exclusive Epic Mickey.

Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two will be a multiplatform release featuring drop-in drop-out cooperative play, with one player controlling Mickey and …

Brands finally succeed in social games on Facebook

Facebook gamers are finally embracing well-known brands in their social games. That’s one of the conclusions from a panel on social games at the f8 conference for Facebook developers yesterday.

Sean Ryan (pictured left), director of game partnerships, pointed out …