Hawken is one of the highly anticipated free-to-play downloadable games coming this fall. Graphics chip maker Nvidia showed a demo of the online mech-combat title today in order to demonstrate its cloud graphics technology.
Jen-Hsun Huang (pictured below), chief executive …
News surrounding yesterday's company-wide layoff at Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning developer 38 Studios continues to roll in on as people in and around the event speak up about what exactly went wrong.
Adventure game grandfathers Tim Schafer (Grim Fandango, Full Throttle) and Ron Gilbert (Maniac Mansion, Monkey Island) recently held a special media event at Double Fine Productions' San Francisco headquarters to unveil the developer's latest offering: The Cave.
Maker Faire is a do-it-yourself cultural celebration. In this year's fair, video games had a small, but remarkable presence that provided some insight into the history of the medium.
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.
You didn't think online support for Demon's Souls would die easily, did you? Guess again.
The contract between Bungie, the celebrated maker of the Halo series, and Activision Blizzard was unsealed this week in litigation related to Activision’s feud with the co-founders of Infinity Ward, creator and former developer of the Call of Duty series.…
Warner Bros. Interactive announces Harry Potter for the Kinect, which releases this fall. Time to bust out that robe and hat combo from the closet once more.
Social casino game startups are the cliché of 2012. Everybody is either starting a new company in this hot market — on the bet that the U.S. will allow online gambling sites again — or spending a lot of money …
Blizzard hopes to roll out client and stability patches for its game Diablo III in the coming week in effort to address ongoing bugs and performance issues.
Starting today and continuing through June 1, a group of indie game makers is cutting prices in select digital distribution markets as part of the "Because We May" campaign.
Fans will be pleased to learn that yet another feature from the 2012 Game Jam is making its way to Skyrim in the next update.
38 Studios to lay off its entire staff.
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Nvidia chief executive Jen-Hsun Huang told analysts today just how important cloud graphics will be to the world. The company announced last week that its recently announced Kepler-based graphics chips are capable of cloud graphics. That means they can process …
Sony is unveiling a goofy PlayStation 3 and Vita game dubbed When Vikings Attack; at a recent Sony event in Santa Monica, Calif., I got a close-up, hands-on preview. In the game, you control a pack of town citizens who …
Metro Last Light, the sequel to the first-person shooter game Metro 2033, is coming out in 2013. Today, THQ released the first video trailer showing the story behind Last Light, and it’s quite well done.
In the trailer, an old …
Zynga unleashes hordes of undead in San Francisco and New York City to promote its upcoming game Zombie Swipeout. Leave your shotguns at home, folks -- they just want to hand out popsicles and walk around.
Capcom is offering an excellent collector's box set for Street Fighter's 25th anniversary and is hosting international tournaments with $500,000 worth of prizes.
Tripwire Interactive takes a different approach to the "Game of the Year" formula with a free content update and a free weekend for new players.
Josh Tank, best known to cinema fans for directing the recent, found-footage superhero movie Chronicle, will take the helm for Sony Picture's live-action adaptation of the popular PlayStation 2 title Shadow of the Colossus.
