Square Enix’s Murdered: Soul Suspect could be one of E3′s best original games (preview)

New property is a very original take on being a detective ghost investigating your own death.

Beyond: Two Souls trailer debuts at Tribeca — don’t mess with Ellen Page

A new trailer for Quantic Dream's Beyond: Two Souls, the developer's PlayStation 3 follow-up to the cinematic Heavy Rain, premiered tonight at New York City's Tribeca Film Festival.

ROUNDTABLE’D! Game characters buy into AAA-game microtransactions!

Microtransactions are creeping out of Facebook and into top-tier console franchises. Our bribe-proof panel of game characters weighs in on whether that's a good thing, a bad thing, or just a thing.

Rockstar Games allegedly threatened to sue director Frank Darabont over ‘L.A. Noir’ TV show

Director Frank Darabont claims Rockstar Games threatened to "sue the shit out of [him]" over a new TV show called L.A. Noir.

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.

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.

The gloriously flawed Sleeping Dogs is an interactive Hong Kong action flick (review)

Square Enix's Sleeping Dogs is a solid, mission-to-mission, open-world action experience. You’ll hurt a lot of thugs, drive a lot of cars recklessly, and work for a lot of shady characters — all while kicking and capping through a you’ll-see-everything-coming-by-a-mile storyline.

The top 8 trends of E3, from bows to brutality

With publishers showing so many games in such close proximity, the Electronic Entertainment Expo is a great place to discover the directions that developers are taking the entire industry for the next year and beyond. Inside are eight trends that GamesBeat's writers noticed during the annual trade show.

Max Payne 3′s massive 35GB install vs. other big games

The PC version of developer Rockstar Games' upcoming installment of the Max Payne series will take up 35GB of free space on on your hard drive when it launches on May 29, according to system requirements released today. Here's how that compares to some other big PC titles.

Gamers: Get the most out of your Android device

We've looked long into the eyes of the Android, and we've come back with 10 must-have games, the best alternative app stores, and other tips for getting the most out of your mobile device.

OnLive launches L.A. Noire for Android tablets

Cloud gaming service OnLive is launching Rockstar Games’ L.A. Noire on Android tablets today.

One game may not seem like a big deal. But the move shows that OnLive is still striving to bring high-end content to low-end devices. That …

NAVGTR announces nominees for 2012 game awards

The National Academy of Video Game Testers and Reviewers (NAVGTR, pronounced "navigator") announced its list of nominees for their 2012 NAVGTR video game awards. Voice actors Tom Sizemore and Tara Platt were on hand to present the nominations.

The organization plans to have a panel of game journalists and other industry folks debate the list and predict the winners during the PAX East festival this April. It will announce the winners shortly afterwards.

And the nominees are...

Move over MotionScan; new lip synch tech aims to revolutionize motion capture (updated with video)

Last year, Australian company Depth Analysis took performance-driven animation to the next level with MotionScan—a technology that utilizes 32 high-definition cameras to capture an actor’s performance without the need for a special ping-pong-ball suit—in Rockstar Games’ L.A. Noire. Now, U.K.-based …

Kinect 2 may be so accurate it can lip read

Microsoft’s next-generation Kinect device may be accurate enough to read your lips. It has also been stated that future Xbox consoles will ship with Kinect 2 built in.

Sources speaking to Eurogamer have claimed that the unannounced Kinect 2 will …

As games underwhelm, Take-Two Interactive misses Wall Street targets

Take-Two Interactive reported solid quarterly earnings and revenues, but fell short of Wall Street’s expectations.

It was a tough day to report earnings, as the stock market tanked and the Nasdaq fell almost 7 percent on Monday. Earlier in the …