13 awesome maps from classic video games (gallery)

The cartographers at City Prints in Atlanta charted the digital topography of several classic video games.

Tencent paid $330M for 40% of Epic Games

Last year, Epic Games sold a 40 percent ownership stake to China’s Tencent, according to an interview with Epic Games founder Tim Sweeney. That makes the deal one of the biggest investments in games last year, and it values Epic …

Gears of War: Judgment takes a step toward the small-time (Review)

Gears of War: Judgment ably demonstrates what happens when a billion-dollar, triple-A franchise goes to the well once too often with too few ideas in its arsenal.

Gears of War: Judgment writers debunk the series’ dude-bro reputation (interview)

GamesBeat interviews writers Rob Auten and Tom Bissell about the story in Gears of War: Judgment, on what they think about the series' "dude-bro" image, and who their favorite new character is.

Gears of War: Judgment makes some refreshing tweaks to an old formula (preview)

I wasn't too excited about the prospect of a fourth Gears of War, but a few new features leave me hopeful that Judgment may be worth playing after all.

Underneath Fuse’s brilliant combat system is a steep learning curve (preview)

Insomniac Games says it'll be the best four-player co-op shooter when it releases later this year. After overcoming Fuse's steep learning curve, I'm almost convinced that it may be right.

Epic Games finally releases Epic Citadel on Android

The Epic Citadel tech demo preceded the release of Infinity Blade on iOS. Maybe Epic has the same planned for Android.

Life after Epic: Getting to know Cliff Bleszinski (exclusive interview, part three: his opinions on shooters)

The creator of Gears of Wars is finally free to give his thoughts on other shooters.

Life after Epic: Getting to know Cliff Bleszinski (exclusive interview, part two: his present and future)

The creator of Gears of War comes out of semiretirement to discuss his future.

Life after Epic: Getting to know Cliff Bleszinski (exclusive interview, part one: his past)

Game designer Cliff Bleszinski finally takes time out of his semi-retirement to talk about his career, his past persona, Gears of War, and more.

The funniest Achievements and Trophies ever, part four: I see what you did there

In part four of our rundown of the funniest fake awards in games, we honor the achievements that reference movies, people, and other games.

GamesBeat weekly roundup: GLaDOS in Pacific Rim, more Black Ops II zombies, and Portal on a calculator

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.

BioShock Infinite’s generic protagonist fits into every game (gallery)

See Booker DeWitt, poster boy of BioShock Infinite's generic box art, star in other action games like Tomb Raider, Mass Effect 3, and Max Payne.

Court orders Silicon Knights to recall and destroy Too Human (and more)

After finding that many of Silicon Knights' titles infringe on Epic Games' copyrights, the court want the offending products removed from the market.

GamesBeat weekly roundup: Zynga layoffs, iPad mini announcement, and Resident Evil 6 gets patched

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.

Epic Games hires Microsoft Game Studios veteran to run Seattle developer

Epic Games' new Seattle location is focusing on developing games using the Unreal 4 engine.

Game industry pros confess their piles of shame!

Everyone has a list of really important games they just haven't played, so we tricked some of the most influential people in the industry into revealing their piles of shame.