Fighting the robot wars: Mechwarrior Online vs. Hawken vs. Heavy Gear Arena

Giant mech games have migrated from retail releases to the free-to-play multiplayer arena. We break down three heavy hitters to help you determine which walking tank is right for you.

U.S. digital game revenues were stable in March, Superdata says

Social games are weakening, while mobile is growing.

Hawken developer doesn’t want to exploit you with its free-to-play

Producer Jason Hughes explains how Adhesive Games is figuring out how to apply free-to-play to a traditionally niche genre.

Oculus Rift is virtual reality that won’t make you barf (hands-on preview)

Oculus VR's virtual-reality headset provides a real, immersive 3D experience.

Hawken’s open beta shows a thoughtfully designed mech combat game (preview)

But can Hawken's amazing attention to detail, capturing the weighty power of a multi-ton war machine, carry it through the pitfalls of free-to-play game design?

Meteor Entertainment taps Live Gamer to power virtual economy and payments for Hawken (exclusive)

LiveGamer helps Meteor get ready for a major free-to-play worldwide launch of Hawken.

Want into the closed Hawken beta? We have the codes you’re looking for

The first-person mech shooter is in a closed beta right now. Want in? Then get in quick and use our code while it's still good.

GamesBeat weekly roundup: Disney buys LucasArts/Lucasfilm, Halo 4 reviewed, and Valve dislikes Windows 8

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.

Hawken publisher Meteor Entertainment raises $18M as big launch draws near

Meteor Entertainment raised another $18M for its Hawken multiplayer mech combat game.

Rocket-powered robots to shoot other robots in Hawken beta this month

The first-person mech shooter is due out in December, but you can potentially hop on sooner in the upcoming beta test.

Warner Bros. making web video series out of Hawken mech-shooter game

Upcoming PC game Hawken joins the ranks of mech series Robotech and Gundam with a web program.

‘Give us something BIG!’: 10 of the best live-action video game trailers

For better or worse, it seems like big-budget live-action trailers for video games are here to stay. It's just as well that some publishers are doing them right, as seen in these 10 impressive examples.

Unity Technologies looks to rule Linux and mobile gaming with Unity 4

Today, Unity Technologies announced plans to update its Unity development tools and graphical engine. A graphical engine like Unity is a piece of software that lets a developer make a game without having to program all of the graphics from …

Bored, impressed, and giddy: Our final thoughts on E3 2012 (with photos)

We left the industry trade show with very different opinions on what we saw. Here are our final thoughts.

The top 15 swag shirts of E3 2012

Free swag is the universal language of the Electronic Entertainment Expo, and free t-shirts live at the apex of Swag Mountain. So here's the best of what we saw at (or took home from) E3 2012.

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.

Nvidia demos upcoming Hawken mech game using cloud graphics (video)

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 …

Meteor Entertainment raises $10M to fund Hawken online mech game (exclusive)

Meteor Entertainment has raised $10 million in a bid to launch a downloadable online game called Hawken. Aimed at hardcore gamers who battle each other online, Hawken is a fast-action shooting game where players can equip themselves with giant armored …

Meteor Games to publish high-end online game Hawken in December (exclusive)

Hawken is one of the coolest online games in development for publication on the web. Adhesive Games, the startup studio that is making the game, is announcing today that its Meteor Entertainment division will publish the game as a free-to-pay …