Thief takes major cues from Dishonored, the game inspired by Thief (preview)

The franchise that inspired a decade of action-stealth games makes a stunning return, stealing its protégés' best improvements and adding a few of its own. Now if only the stealth actually worked ... .

Tangentix raises $2.1M to make game downloads faster (exclusive)

The company's compression technology could potentially address a major problem for players.

GamesBeat weekly roundup: Disney Infinity, torsos, and violence in video games

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.

These missing Tomb Raider games could be entombed for good

We dig into why Tomb Raider Gold and the other PC and Mac bonus levels have gone missing from rereleases.

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.

Disney poaches OnLive exec to head social games

Disney has hired away OnLive executive John Spinale to be the new head of the Disney Interactive Media Group’s social games business.

Spinale will run the social game business, which includes Disney’s Playdom division, and report to John Pleasants, co-president …

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 …