Sony shows off fuzzy PlayStation 4 console in teaser video

Sony's hints at the design for the PS4 with fuzzy imagery, closeups, and quick cuts.

The DeanBeat: The game industry’s calendar will be different in 2013

It's going to be a year full of interesting gaming news, from new console launches to new mobile device debuts.

E3 will remain in Los Angeles through 2015

The Electronic Entertainment Expo, gaming’s largest North American trade show, isn’t leaving Los Angeles.

The Los Angeles Convention Center, E3′s home for more than a decade, is transforming to accommodate a new professional football stadium. The convention center’s owning entity, …

Two-thirds of gamers got new video games in the last three months

Video game sales at retail stores have been sinking this year. But 67 percent of all gamers have reported buying at least one game in either a physical or digital form in the past three months, according to market researcher …

The DeanBeat: Will your game company survive the zombie apocalypse?

The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) video game trade show in Los Angeles was full of glitzy press conferences (like Ubisoft’s, pictured above). So many big companies were acting like it was business as usual. They showed games that were the …

Sony’s free-to-play online shooter Planetside 2 will pack 2,000 players in an arena (interview)

First-person shooter games have become a multibillion-dollar market. But no one has really succeeded in the massively multiplayer online space with high-end hardcore shooters. Sony Online Entertainment hopes to change that with the upcoming launch of Planetside 2. John Smedley, …

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.

The DeanBeat: Apple and Samsung give console makers a reprieve

This year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) video game trade show had all the potential for disruption but none of the follow-through.

Always nipping at the edges of the game industry, Apple and Samsung have the means to exterminate the video …

GamesBeat’s gigantic E3 2012 roundup

We've corralled the entirety of our E3 2012 coverage from the showfloors, meeting rooms, conference halls, and beyond. If you missed out -- or need a refresher -- on GamesBeat's E3 coverage, take a look here!

Nintendo’s E3 2012: Reactions show hardcore gamers lost faith in Wii U (graph)

We analyzed over 16,000 comments on the NeoGAF forums to see how gamers reacted to Nintendo's E3 2012 press conference.

Sony’s E3 2012: Analysis shows Last of Us “shotgun blast” won big, Wonderbook lost (graph)

We analyzed over 16,000 comments on the NeoGAF forums to see how gamers reacted to Sony's E3 2012 press conference.

Microsoft’s E3 2012: Analysis of 16,000+ comments shows Halo 4, South Park impressed, rest did not (graph)

We analyzed over 16,000 comments on the NeoGAF forums to see how gamers reacted to Microsoft's E3 2012 press conference.

Bored, impressed, and giddy: Our final thoughts on E3 2012 (with photos)

We left the industry trade show with very different opinions on what we saw. Here are our final thoughts.

Turning technology against your friends in Watch Dogs

In one of the coolest sounding cross-platform schemes we've seen, Ubisoft's upcoming open-world hacking playground Watch Dogs allows players to interact with each other's games through a companion mobile app. It's time for some technological warfare.