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.

Valve gives Plantronics the rights to officially brand headsets with Aperture Laboratories and Mann Co. logos

Valve teams with Plantronics to release gaming headphones branded with the Dota 2, Counter-Strike, and other brands.

GamesBeat weekly roundup: Wii U, Call of Duty: Black Ops II, Xbox Live turns 10

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.

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.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive free this weekend on Steam

Long-time players of the first-person series should benefit from an influx of easy-to-kill rookies.

Valve prepping next batch of Greenlight-approved games in November

Valve expects the next update to include 10 more games and the service's first software titles, but isn't ready to announce any specifics.

Gaming’s ‘Nite to Unite’ raises over $800,000 for children’s charities and scholarships

Every year, the black-tie gala "Nite to Unite -- for Kids" raises money to support the Entertainment Software Association Foundation.

Publisher Valve says Linux is more viable for games than Windows 8

One of the biggest names in PC gaming continues to lob insults at Microsoft's newest operating system.

Steam’s Linux beta will include Portal, Team Fortress 2, and Serious Sam 3

A Steam for Linux beta will support two Valve games and one from an outside developer.

GamesBeat weekly roundup: Kixeye opens up about racism allegations, OnLive assets sold for $4.8 million

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.

Valve wants your help playtesting unreleased games and hardware prototypes

Just fill out a survey and the developer may invite you to come out to its Pacific Northwest-based headquarters to looks at some of its products.

Startup puts gamers to work raising money for charity

Game It Forward has developed a model that will allow players to donate to their favorite charities just by playing a game.

The DeanBeat: Raptr’s gamer data shows that building real communities pays off in profits (it’s the community, stupid)

Doing good by the community yields profits, so say the numbers from Raptr's social network for gamers.

It’s a Total War weekend on Steam: Free Team Fortress 2 items

Rome: Total War is only $1 on Steam, and it comes with a bunch of free items for Valve's free-to-play first-person shooter.

GamesBeat weekly roundup: Valve acquisition rumors, ‘Threeview,’ and Black Ops II

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.

Valve engineer builds a sweet hybrid rocket engine (video)

Sometimes you just build a rocket in your spare time. Or at least that’s what you do if you’re Valve hardware hacker Ben Krasnow.