Thanks for the #PlayStationMemories: The industry tweets Sony’s legacy

As the minutes tick down to the reveal of PlayStation's future, journalists and industry pros tweeted their funniest, crudest, most poignant, and most inspiring experiences from Sony's past.

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance unsheathes an action-packed, yet imperfect, experience (review)

The latest entry in the Metal Gear franchise is a video game in all the hyperbolic, make-believe, stupid-fun sense of the term.

GamesBeat giveaways: PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale beta

We're giving away early access codes for the PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale public beta. If you want to start fighting before October 23, tell us who you're most excited to play when the game launches!

Mark of the Ninja: 5 new revolutionary stealth mechanics, and what it kept the same

Here's what makes Mark of the Ninja unique to the stealth genre.

Snake goes digital in three Metal Gear Solid games this month for Xbox 360, PS3, and Vita

Three games in the Metal Gear Solid series will be available soon as digital downloads.

GamesBeat weekly roundup: Gamescape 2012, a history of Batman in video games, and Donkey Kong’s failing liver

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.

Lead creator of the Metal Gear series opens up about its 25-year history

Hideo Kojima talks about the past, present, and future of the Metal Gear series.

GamesBeat weekly roundup: Xbox 720, 3DS XL, and surviving the zombie apocalypse

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.

Kingdom Hearts boosts 3DS in Japan while PS Vita flags

Handhelds continue to dominate the video game sales charts in Japan, and one handheld in particular. Driven by the release of a new exclusive title in Square Enix’s hit Kingdom Hearts series, the Nintendo 3DS had a very strong final …

20 video games that make Japanese players cry

Famitsu Weekly, the leading Japanese game magazine, recently ran a poll online to determine which games literally drove players to tears. The 20 most popular choices were as follows (thanks to Andriasang for formatting the list):

Final Fantasy X (Square