GamesBeat weekly roundup: THQ is bankrupt, Zynga shuts down 11 games

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.

Port justified: Need for Speed: Most Wanted on Wii U has offscreen play

EA will provide off-screen play in the Wii U version of Criterion's latest racing game.

Call of Duty: Black Ops II beats Halo 4 in NPD’s dismal November game sales list

Sales for total video game hardware, software, and accessories sold at retail were $2.55 billion in November, down 11 percent from $2.87 billion a year ago.

Medal of Honor: Warfighter’s bearded badasses can’t defeat mediocrity (review)

While Medal of Honor: Warfighter has some fun beneath its gritty fingernails, it fails as the military-shooter flag-bearer it wants to be.

Coming close to paradise with Need for Speed: Most Wanted (review)

Criterion returns to open-world racing for the first time since Burnout Paradise, and Need for Speed Most Wanted does a fine job maintaining that legacy ... even if it doesn't do very much that's new along the way.

Need For Speed: Most Wanted looks stunning on consoles

Developer Criterion has previously shown off the PC version, but at a recent expo in Europe the team demoed the racing game on a PlayStation 3.

GamesBeat casts the Need for Speed movie

Dreamworks Studios has acquired the film rights to Electronic Arts' racing-game series Need for Speed. We use our world-class taste to cast the film.

GamesBeat’s gigantic E3 2012 roundup

We've corralled the entirety of our E3 2012 coverage from the showfloors, meeting rooms, conference halls, and beyond. If you missed out -- or need a refresher -- on GamesBeat's E3 coverage, take a look here!

GamesBeat E3 Roundup Day 1

If you're looking to catch up with the day's E3 news, be sure to check out the GamesBeat E3 Roundup each day of the show.

EA shows off Need for Speed: Most Wanted at E3 2012

Publisher Electronic Arts confirmed that the next game in the Need For Speed franchise will be titled Need For Speed: Most Wanted. It is being developed by Criterion, who also made Burnout Paradise and Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit for …

My Wife is Retarded producer working on Electronic Arts movie

Electronic Arts is reportedly working toward a Hollywood adaptation of its long-running Need for Speed franchise. Brothers John Gatins (a writer of Real Steel) and George Gatins (producer of She’s Out of My League and My Wife is Retarded) have …