CCP holding special Eve Online/Dust 514 event at PAX East for players to make in-game ‘history’

Developer CCP Games will also announce a new expansion for Eve Online.

GamesBeat weekly roundup: Dawnguard, Zynga Unleashed, and Sega’s ongoing decline

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.

CCP’s David Reid says Dust 514 heralds a new free-to-play era on consoles (interview)

Our interview with CCP Games chief marketing officer David Reid details the free-to-play business model of its upcoming console shooter Dust 514, its tie-ins with the massively multiplayer PC title Eve Online, and the challenges faced in balancing and marketing another shooter for a console audience.

CCP Games hires David Reid as chief marketing officer as Dust 514 nears launch

Gearing up for a big marketing campaign, Eve Online game publisher CCP Games has hired David Reid as its new chief marketing officer.

Reid joins the Reykjavik, Iceland-based company as it prepares to launch its biggest game in years, the …