GamesBeat weekly roundup: WoW loses 1.3M subscribers, Amazon brings paid apps to China, Q1 earnings, and more

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.

Dota 2 replaces World of Warcraft as Raptr’s third most-played game

The gaming social-network Raptr reveals the data for the 20 most-played games in April.

GamesBeat weekly roundup: A new social gaming King, big Xbox announcement May 21, and more

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.

Hackers breach The War Z personal-info databases; publisher shuts down servers

Hackers have access to email address, IP addresses, and encrypted passwords for The War Z players and forum users.

GamesBeat weekly roundup: EA CEO out, SimCity could have been offline, StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm 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.

The DeanBeat: It’s the community, stupid. Again.

Every company has to ask itself if its actions are good or bad for the gaming community.

Xi3 tries to dispel wrong assumptions about whether its Piston is Valve’s ‘Steam Box’

The statement this evening is perhaps the longest non-announcement of a product and its possible close-relative product that we have ever seen.

GamesBeat Giveaway Week: Day 3 (Steam games)

Fear not, PC gamers, we haven't forgotten about you. For the third day of our week-long giveaway contest, we've got Steam codes for The Cave and Super House of Dead Ninjas!

From Flash to Steam — how Adult Swim is building a publishing empire

Adult Swim Games released its first Steam game last week, and it has plans for further expansion.

Co-creator of Counter-Strike will launch his Tactical Intervention shooter on March 28

Tactical Intervention combines team-based first-person-shooter gameplay with a free-to-play business model.

Portal developer Kim Swift’s next game is exclusive to Ouya

Kim Swift has gone from Portal to Quantum Conundrum and now to something new on Ouya.

The next console generation should reflect a change in developer relations

In the upcoming console wave, the flexibility of each platform may be equally or more important than hardware power.

The War Z is back on Steam more than two months after Valve pulled it

The open-world zombie survival game that sparked an angry fan backlash returns to Steam.