GamesBeat’s PlayStation 2 memories

Sony has ceased production of the PlayStation 2. We mark the occasion by looking back on one of the most popular systems in gaming history.

Our gallery of New York Comic Con’s often quirky, sometimes beautiful cosplay

See costumes featuring characters from The Legend of Zelda, Borderlands 2, Final Fantasy, Batman, and more from the New York Comic Con.

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.

Awesome art: Disney princesses reimagined in Final Fantasy X-2′s dresspheres (gallery)

Talented Deviant artist xskirtzx has posted a Final Fantasy/Disney princess mash-up gallery. She’s assigned a unique dressphere (character class) from Final Fantasy X-2 to each of the princesses,  and the results are very imaginative. Above is a White Mage Rapunzel, …

Review: How Final Fantasy XIII-2 saves the franchise…for now

2010’s Final Fantasy XIII may have sold well enough, but the perplexingly bad design decisions quickly made the title a bitter disappointment for many fans. Coupled with the disastrous launch of Final Fantasy XIV, and even publisher/developer Square Enix admitted …