Metal Gear Rising’s prediction of a privatized American police force mirrors reality

Walking tanks and full body cyborgs are some of the outlandish predictions made in Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. But Kojima Productions' vision of privatized police forces may just be their most accurate to date.

GamesBeat weekly roundup: Zynga shuts studio, top exec leaves EA, and Ouya ships March 28

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.

The peculiar origin of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance’s heavy-metal sound (interview)

Game and television composer Jamie Christopherson gives us some insight into the peculiar heavy metal sound track in Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. Metal music isn't Christopherson's strong suit, but Platinum Games thought he was perfect for the job.

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance — Quick and easy BP to max out Raiden’s skills early!

Want to make the ultimate cyborg even more ultimate? Check out this quick video to find out how to upgrade Raiden quick and early.

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance unsheathes an action-packed, yet imperfect, experience (review)

The latest entry in the Metal Gear franchise is a video game in all the hyperbolic, make-believe, stupid-fun sense of the term.

There may be life for Darksiders and other unsold THQ franchises after all

Fans of Darksiders can take some comfort in knowing that there is still hope left for the franchise.

Nintendo trailer roundup: New Monolith Soft game, Shin-Megami Tensei X Fire Emblem, Bayonetta 2, and more

Nintendo reveals some handsome-looking games in the works for the Wii U.

Anarchy Reigns is the digital version of a big box of mismatched toys (review)

Platinum Games returns to the beat-em-up genre with a title that hopes to be so much more, but ends up as a bit less.

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance may need to rise above its surprisingly conventional design (hands-on preview)

It's a feat worthy of Solid Snake that Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance should be so wildly inventive and yet so wildly conventional.

Catch Mario, Bayonetta, and Sonic in these Wii U game videos

Take a look at the new Wii U trailers available today.

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance finally receives a release date [Updated]

Konami reveals exactly when you'll be able to start cutting people in half in the new Metal Gear game.

The Wii U game from the Bayonetta developer that Nintendo didn’t show during its E3 event

Project P-100 (working title) is a Pikmin-like adventure game that takes place in a colorful cartoon world. It is from the team that made Madworld and Bayonetta, two violent action titles aimed at hardcore gamers.

In the game, gigantic aliens …

Konami Pre-E3 2012 event: More Castlevania and Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance

Konami's pre-E3 video revealed their line-up for the 2012 Electronic Enterntainment Expo in Los Angeles, including a sequel to Castlevania: Lords of Shadow and new details for Metal Gear Solid: Revengeance.