Meteor Entertainment taps Live Gamer to power virtual economy and payments for Hawken (exclusive)

LiveGamer helps Meteor get ready for a major free-to-play worldwide launch of Hawken.

GamesBeat weekly roundup: Disney buys LucasArts/Lucasfilm, Halo 4 reviewed, and Valve dislikes Windows 8

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.

Rocket-powered robots to shoot other robots in Hawken beta this month

The first-person mech shooter is due out in December, but you can potentially hop on sooner in the upcoming beta test.

The DeanBeat: Will your game company survive the zombie apocalypse?

The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) video game trade show in Los Angeles was full of glitzy press conferences (like Ubisoft’s, pictured above). So many big companies were acting like it was business as usual. They showed games that were the …

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.

Meteor Games to publish high-end online game Hawken in December (exclusive)

Hawken is one of the coolest online games in development for publication on the web. Adhesive Games, the startup studio that is making the game, is announcing today that its Meteor Entertainment division will publish the game as a free-to-pay …