GamesBeat weekly roundup: Sony reveals PlayStation 4, House GOP blasts game research, and Crysis 3 review

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.

Sony’s Shu Yoshida talks PlayStation 4: PS3/PSN compatibility, microtransactions, and more

Sony overloaded us with information about the PlayStation 4 last night, but many questions still remain.

PlayStation Cloud streaming tech the ‘fastest gaming network in the world’ — and promises PS4 games on Vita

The new PlayStation Network will make it easy for gamers to instantly share videos of their game with their friends, as well as instantly try new demos, and play on a second screen with their PlayStation Vita.

The DeanBeat: Game acquisitions rise 23 percent to $3.4B in 2012

The game industry set a new record for the money spent on acquisitions, but the number of deals dropped.

Analyst: GameStop store closures could hurt industry sales

GameStop, one of the world's biggest game retailers, will cut its global footprint by about 1 percent.

GamesBeat weekly roundup: Kixeye opens up about racism allegations, OnLive assets sold for $4.8 million

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.

Streaming tech company T5 claims Sony’s Gaikai infringes on its patents

Sony's wholly owned cloud-gaming company is using a technology that the London-based T5 Labs believe it owns.

With AMD investment, CiiNow wants to push cloud gaming beyond where OnLive could take it

Hoping to pick up where OnLive left off, CiiNow is launching cloud gaming software that will serve as the backbone for cloud services that game publishers can launch.

Cloud-gaming service OnLive reveals details behind its asset sale and new investor

After a wave of criticism about how it treated its employees, OnLive reveals more details about its recent sale to a new owner.

Asus and Wikipad join Playstation Mobile, widening the reach of Sony games to more devices

Sony signs up new partners to expand PlayStation Mobile games to tablets that don't carry the Japanese media giant's name.

Death Rally paves a developer’s path into brave new world of games (interview)

Death Rally is a foot in the door for digital games at Remedy Entertainment. Maybe its next big thing will be a mobile game?

Gamers at Work reveals the risks and emotional complications in entrepreneurship (interview)

Gamers at Work is a collection of interviews with some of the game industry's most iconic founders, developers, and entrepreneurs. It's also a handy guide for aspiring business people hoping to break into games.

GamesBeat weekly roundup: Spelunky, Sony buys Gaikai, and the Walking Dead

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.