GamesBeat weekly roundup: Google’s game service, EA axes online passes, and a look at The Last of Us

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.

Similarities between Injustice: Gods Among Us and the Justice League cartoon

The latest DC fighting game shares a great deal with a classic episode arc of the Justice League cartoon series. But just how closely do the cartoon and game follow each other?

Candy Crush Saga dominates a volatile casual gaming market

Zynga and Disney are struggling as new competitors start to take control of the lucrative casual market.

You can make a snack before these fighting game supermoves finish

Supermoves not only look cinematic these days -- they almost last as long as a movie.

GamesBeat weekly roundup: A new social gaming King, big Xbox announcement May 21, and more

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.

Injustice: Gods Among Us is superpowered insanity (review)

Injustice: Gods Among Us is an over-the-top fighting game that makes it easy for the average player to feel like a superhero. It's splashy combat definitely satisfies, but it suffers from easily exploited quirks when you take the fight online.

GamesBeat weekly roundup: Disney shuts down Junction Point, GTA V delayed

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.

Injustice: Gods Among Us is not a reskinned Mortal Kombat (hands-on preview)

Developer NetherRealm Studios has made some key changes to its fighting formula to make sure Injustice stands out from its Mortal Kombat games.

Need a statue of Wonder Woman lassoing Batman? The Injustice Collector’s Edition has that

Mortal Kombat developer NetherRealms is releasing a $99.99 Collector's Edition of its upcoming DC Comics fighting game.

GamesBeat’s E3 2012 Game of the Show…plus staff picks

Here is our Game of the Show for E3 2012, the industry trade show, along with individual staff picks.

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.

Injustice: Gods Among Us lets DC superheroes fight to the death (preview and image gallery)

DC Comics’ superheroes were never eviscerated quite like this on the illustrated page. But the kid gloves are off in Injustice: Gods Among Us, the newest fighting game starring DC heroes such as Superman and Batman.

From NetherRealm Studios, the …

Warner Bros. unveils Injustice: Gods Among Us superhero fighting game

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment plans to launch a superhero fighting game, Injustice: Gods Among Us, in 2013, according to GameSpot. The title is being created by NetherRealm Studios, maker of last year’s popular Mortal Kombat reboot.

In this game, DC …