Think tank Gun Media brings experts together to make games (exclusive interview)

Startup publisher Gun doesn't want to be one of the big boys, but it does have big ideas on how to bring the right games to market.

Online gaming giant Nexon invests in ex-Call of Duty creative strategist’s Robotoki game startup

Robotoki's Human Element will be a cross-platform title arriving in 2015.

Call of Duty alum Robert Bowling announces new iOS and Android tactical strategy game

Breach & Clear puts players in control of a unit of Spec Ops forces as they methodically eliminated terrorists and other villains.

GamesBeat’s PAX panel: Left 4 Dead, Plants vs. Zombies, and DayZ devs discuss the undead

Moderated by Sebastian Haley (GamesBeat's culture editor), the panel explores the current proliferation of zombies in video games and culture and the approach by different gamemakers in this genre.

Ouya surpasses its funding goal on Kickstarter by $7.6M

Ouya has raised nearly $8.6M in support of its free-to-play, Android-based console.

Robotoki’s Robert Bowling talks Ouya, Human Element game (interview)

Bowling's studio, Robotoki, is the first to commit to creating exclusive content for the Ouya console.

GamesBeat Weekly Roundup

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.

Former Call of Duty guru Robert Bowling dishes on his move from triple-A to indie (exclusive)

“When you’re a massive brand with a massive budget, people want to work with you for the money,” Robert Bowling said in a recent exclusive interview with GamesBeat. While subtle, it’s a distinct reference to how business works at his …

GamesBeat Weekly Roundup

Here are some of the stories that ran on GamesBeat this week. We’re running more articles exclusively in the GamesBeat section of VentureBeat, particularly when they’re mainly of interest to our game readers. The broader-interest posts will continue to run …

Call of Duty front man resigns from Infinity Ward

In a tweet, creative strategist Robert Bowling resigned from his job at Activision’s Call of Duty game studio Infinity Ward today.

Bowling has been an active tweeter and spokesman for Infinity Ward in the past year, particularly since Infinity Ward …

After Modern Warfare 3 outage, Activision offers fans a perk

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 servers on Xbox Live went down, spoiling the Friday night entertainment plans for millions of fans. But the service is now back up and game publisher Activision Blizzard seems like it will make a …

Modern Warfare 3 DLC schedule revealed: 12 maps, 6 missions, 2 game modes

Activision has outlined its downloadable content (DLC) schedule for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 during 2012. There are 20 pieces of DLC due in total, which will be made available to Elite Premium subscribers over a nine month ‘content …

First downloadable Modern Warfare 3 multiplayer maps unleashed (hands-on)

I just downloaded and played the new multiplayer maps for Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3. Since the game is the best-selling title of all time, you can bet that millions of other premium Call of Duty Elite members will …

Activision unveils new downloadable maps for Modern Warfare 3

Activision Blizzard unveiled two new multiplayer maps which will be the first downloadable content for Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3.

Downloadable content is becoming more and more popular and the release of Call of Duty content is so big …

New Gears of War 3 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 DLC announced

Microsoft has revealed the third piece of downloadable content (DLC) for Gears of War 3, one of GamesBeat’s top 10 games of the year.

Titled “Fenix Rising,” the DLC will add five new maps and a few new character skins.…

More than 1,600 cheaters banned from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has been out for a little over a week now and already 1,600 cheaters and hackers have been banned, according to Infinity Ward’s Creative Strategist Robert Bowling.

Yesterday, Bowling stated on Twitter, “Any attempt …

Interview: Infinity Ward producer talks Modern Warfare Zombies… and aliens

In the second of our trilogy of Modern Warfare 3 launch interviews, VentureBeat sat down with Mark Rubin, executive producer at Infinity Ward, to look back at the recent Call of Duty XP fan event, discuss the possibility of Modern …

Infinity Ward leader describes replacing “killstreaks” with “pointstreaks” in Modern Warfare 3 (video)

Robert Bowling, creative strategist at Activision Blizzard‘s Infinity Ward studio, says the new Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 coming on November 8 has better balanced multiplayer combat than ever before.

The new tweaks for multiplayer could make or break …

Hands-on with Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 multiplayer

Last night, I took out dozens of enemies in a few rounds of Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 multiplayer combat.

But as usual in these multiplayer death matches, the human enemy players took me out more, shooting bullets at …