John Riccitiello’s legacy: EA survives, but its hit points are dangerously low

It's easy to take shots at Riccitiello's record, but his successes and failures were complex.

Action video games improve your ability to search through complex visual scenes

This means that it might be easier to train gamers for certains kinds of jobs.

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.

Battlefield 3 Premium’s success leads EA to plan more ‘premium’ services

EA's Battlefield 3 Premium service hit 800,000 members within its first two weeks, but how does it stack up against long-time competitor Call of Duty Elite?

GamesBeat weekly roundup: Dawnguard, Zynga Unleashed, and Sega’s ongoing decline

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.

Halo, Red Dead Redemption, and other modern games given a retro makeover (gallery)

Halo, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Final Fantasy XIII, and more are given the retro treatment in this gallery.

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 …

Review: Need for Speed: The Run falls miles behind Hot Pursuit

Need for Speed: The Run is Electronic Arts’ newest installment in the long-running franchise and the next try at restoring the series back to its glory days. After long hours of race after race, and car after car, EA convinced …