Lockwood Publishing will debut 3D avatars in Avakin Poker (exclusive)

The developer of PlayStation Home's Sodium series has expanded to make games and 3D avatars on mobile platforms.

Top game controversies of 2012

From game violence to sex chat, game companies got into hot water in 2012.

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.

Alex St. John’s Magi.com launches social gaming hub (exclusive)

Alex St. John is back. The former president of social network Hi5 sold off the struggling service to Tagged in December. But now he is starting a new site, Magi.com, that uses many of the same ideas that were meant …