Dark Souls 2 kills you even when you’re invincible (preview)

Developer From Software is making Dark Souls 2 just for the fans. That means it's going to be just as difficult as ever.

In Watch Dogs, your friends can hack your character in the single-player game (multiplayer preview)

Your friends can come into your game, hack your character, and steal your data.

Company of Heroes 2 emulates the feel of Russian winter and suicide missions (preview)

Relic's developers visited Russia to experience the cold winter for themselves. That shows through in the gameplay.

Saints Row IV: Hail to the Chief baller (hands-on preview)

Saints Row IV takes your gang banger out of the mean streets and into the Oval Office, and then throws in alien invasions, dubstep guns, super powers, and optional nudity. And then it totally goes off the chain.

Thief is still an apprentice, but it’s learning fast (hands-on preview)

Though much improved over its GDC appearance, a hands-on playthrough of Eidos Montreal's new Thief reboot shows it hasn't quite mastered the art of the steal. Yet.

Lego Marvel Super Heroes: Y’know … for kids (preview)

Lego Marvel Super Heroes carries the Lego-game torch of clever parody mixed with geek-worthy team-ups from across the Marvel Universe, but the gameplay itself feels too gentle for most grown-ups.

Assassination: Pirate-style in Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag

Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag still assigns you targets for deletion, but its seamless, open world and pirate setting make for assassination missions unlike any in the franchise's history.

Assassin’s Creed IV features ship combat and a new pirate character to go with it (interview)

The lead writer for Assassin's Creed IV tells us about the decisions behind the ship combat and new pirate character.

Call of Duty: Ghost’s underwater guns actually work in real life

Guns that shoot underwater? The sub-surface firefights in Call of Duty: Ghosts might require a huge suspension of disbelief, but the technology itself is very real, and has been since the '70s.

In South Park: The Stick of Truth, farting is magic (preview)

South Park: The Stick of Truth brings its scatological brand of satire to the video-game arena intact and indistinguishable from its television counterpart.

Halo: Spartan Assault — mobile, microtransactions, meh (preview)

Putting Microsoft's premiere shooter franchise on a mobile platform might sound like the Holy Grail, but Halo: Spartan Assault runs the risk of becoming the world's first throwaway Halo game.

GamesBeat weekly roundup: Anita Sarkeesian conquers bullies, Candy Crush Saga rules mobile

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.

Delays helped make Rayman Legends better — and brought some gender balance as well (preview)

Developer Ubisoft Montpellier made the most out of the unfortunate delay of Rayman Legends and has packed the game full of extra content.

Ninja Theory’s Fightback: A touch-screen brawler that actually kicks ass (preview)

It seems improbable that the developer behind high-profile games like DmC: Devil May Cry would try its hand at a mobile, touch-screen brawler, but it did, and its talent for the genre shows.

Resident Evil creator returns to pure survival horror with The Evil Within (preview)

The horror, the horror. This will remind you a lot of Resident Evil, but its creators say they will throw in original twists.

Wolfenstein: The New Order moves the Nazi revenge fantasy into an alternate universe (hands-on preview)

Machine Games is layering an actual story on top of a traditional Nazi ass-kicking shooter.