ROUNDTABLE’D! Game characters objectify Dragon’s Crown’s female anatomy!

The female anatomy in Dragon's Crown needs a lesson, and our panel of gender-sensitive game characters steps up to ride its controversial art style hard.

Assassin’s Creed III: The revolution will be gripping but glitchy (review)

A Revolutionary War backdrop and all-new game modes give Assassin's Creed 3 serious lift, but too many technical and design flaws keep it chained firmly to the ground.

Assassin’s Creed III is the most preordered Ubisoft game ever

A change in setting has spurred fans to preorder Assassin's Creed III at almost twice the rate of the previous game, Assassin's Creed: Revelations.

Game industry pros confess their piles of shame!

Everyone has a list of really important games they just haven't played, so we tricked some of the most influential people in the industry into revealing their piles of shame.

Assassin’s Creed III lead designer talks maxing out hardware, making waves, and feudal Japan (interview)

Assassin's Creed III doesn't need to just be good, it has to sell. A lot.

Intermittent Uplay outage renders several Ubisoft games unplayable

Ubisoft's Uplay service is giving many customers an error that is preventing access to games like Assassin's Creed Revelations.

4 things you won’t see in Assassin’s Creed III

At the premiere event for Assassin's Creed III, freshly minted franchise Creative Director Alex Hutchinson took a break from unveiling a game we want more of to pull back the curtain slightly on a game that will never be. "You tend to play the first draft of a video game," says Hutchinson, but he intends to deliver something a few revisions down the line. By way of proof, he showed us a four things that didn't survive the first round of edits.

Official Assassin’s Creed III box art and leaked screens confirm American Revolution setting [update]

With the stories of both Ezio and Altair coming to a close in last year’s Assassin’s Creed: Revelations, Ubisoft has revealed the next of Desmond’s ancestors. Sharing the official Assassin’s Creed III box art on the AC Facebook page, Ubisoft …

Ubisoft ships 13M dance games and 7M copies of Assassin Creed title

French video game publisher Ubisoft reported today that it shipped more than 13 million dance games and 7 million copies of Assassin’s Creed Revelations during its third fiscal quarter ended Dec. 31.

For the quarter, revenue was 652 million euros, …

GamesBeat Reviews

Below are all the reviews from GamesBeat in 2011. They are listed in reverse-chronological order by the date the review was posted, NOT the release date for the game.

12/19
Minecraft
Star Wars: The Old Republic

12/15

Grand Theft Auto …

This week on Xbox Live: Expansions for Battlefield 3, Assassin’s Creed Revelations, and Gears of War 3

Microsoft has expanded Xbox Live to enable new entertainment options such as YouTube and Verizon’s FiOS TV, but the bread and butter of the Xbox 360 remains games. This week will see a slew of attention-grabbing new content on Xbox …

The DeanBeat: Building a better GamesBeat

For almost four years, we’ve been building out GamesBeat as VentureBeat’s game channel. We have held three annual GamesBeat conferences where the movers and shakers of the industry talk about the latest trends in games. Now we’re expanding to build …

Review: Ezio’s not the only thing getting old in Assassin’s Creed: Revelations

Assassin’s Creed: Revelations is the fourth title in Ubisoft’s award-winning, multi-platinum franchise. Developed by multiple internal studios around the globe and spanning more than 400 individual team members, the Assassin’s Creed series needs to sell better than most in order …

Preview: Assassin’s Creed Revelations takes plenty of creative risks (video)

Assassin’s Creed Revelations takes a lot of creative risks, considering it is the fourth installment in a video game series that has sold more than 30 million copies for French game publisher Ubisoft. I’ve had a good look at part …