8 alternative Grand Theft Auto V trailers to ease 8 months of waiting

8 fan-made GTA V trailers should help ease the pain of an 8 month wait for the game to release. Minecraft, Lego bricks, Battlefield 3, old GTA games, Mario, and the real-life streets of Rio De Janeiro. They're all represented here.

GamesBeat weekly roundup: THQ bankrupt, Machinima downsizes, and Shaq is back

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.

Game videos giant Machinima lays off 10 percent of staff

The core games slowdown may also have affected Machinima.

PMC and Machinima will tout this year’s DICE Summit video game awards show

This year's DICE summit and game awards will be livestreamed to Machinima's 253 million monthly visitors.

‘Course of the Force’ short film lands on Nerdists’ YouTube channel

A bunch of well-known geeks — like Nerdist founder Chris Hardwick and Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman — have teamed up to produce a short film for the upcoming Course of the Force charity run that’ll play on the Nerdist …

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.

Machinima scores partnership to promote highly anticipated Hawken game (exclusive)

Web videos are turning into the preferred way to drop news about a new game. That's why Meteor Entertainment has teamed up with gamer video network Machinima to promote Hawken, a highly anticipated free-to-play online game coming this December.

Google enters the content business: Machinima closes $35M round

Machinima has raised a fat $35 round of funding led by search engine giant Google, the company confirmed yesterday.

News of Machinima’s new funding first surfaced earlier this month. Google’s involvement marks the first time the company has spent money …

Machinima may become Google’s first original content investment

Lately, Google has been keen on dropping significant money to attract original programming for YouTube and to promote those programs across its network. Now, Google is reportedly investing in content producers themselves.

Ultra-popular content producer Machinima may see a $30 …

Lucasfilm teams with social media startups to create giant charity run

How’s this for a mega geek fest?

Lucasfilm is teaming up with three social media startups to create the Course of the Force, a 120-mile relay run where a chain of joggers will carry a lightsaber like an Olympic torch …

Machinima hits 1 billion monthly video views

Machinima, the biggest site for game-related videos, said today it has hit more than 1 billion monthly video views for the month of November.

The milestone shows just how huge game-related videos have become, as gamers tune into everything from …