GamesBeat weekly roundup: Whales of social gaming, Starcraft II guide, Saints Row IV, and family Minecraft servers

If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best video game stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.

This week in the Nintendo Download: Castlevania, Runner 2, and Retro City Rampage

Castlevania may come out next week, but you can try out a demo today on the 3DS. Also, Bit.Trip's Captain Video returns, and WiiWare goes back in time.

Required Listening: Fire Emblem, Crysis 3, and interview with Tomb Raider composer Jason Graves

Required Listening is a new monthly feature celebrating game music and the people who create it. This month we look at Fire Emblem: Awakening, Aliens: Colonial Marines, Dead Space 3, and Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance and discuss the emotional inspiration for the new Tomb Raider score with composer Jason Graves.

We need to stop misrepresenting minorities in video games

The PlayStation 4 is the perfect chance for developers to start changing their depictions of minorities, who represent a considerable share of audiences.

Celebrate Valentine’s Day the gaming way

Happy Valentine's Day! Developers around the world are joining in the celebration with their own game-related cards. Why not give one to the gamer in your life?

This week in the Nintendo Download: Fire Emblem, Puddle, and The Cave

If you own a 3DS, you're probably pretty excited for Fire Emblem ... but it doesn't come out until next week, so you might as well check out what else Nintendo's various eShops have to offer.

Fire Emblem: Awakening starter guide: Tips, tricks, legendary weapons, marriage, and babies!

Learn all about Support Ranks, marriage, and how to unlock every legendary weapon in the game.

Fire Emblem: Awakening is one of the deepest and best 3DS games (review)

Fire Emblem: Awakening rewards dedicated players with a lengthy quest filled with complicated strategy and memorable characters.

This week in the Nintendo Download: Fire Emblem, Crash Mobs, and Kirby

This week's eShop updates are (almost) all about the 3DS, with emblems to awaken, Nemos to find, and groups of Japanese pedestrians to hurl through the air.