Electronic Arts adding amusement parks to SimCity in $10 expansion

SimCity's specialization options are about to expand with amusement park DLC.

GamesBeat weekly roundup: WoW loses 1.3M subscribers, Amazon brings paid apps to China, Q1 earnings, 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.

Sims creator Will Wright: Next consoles can become ‘connective tissue’ between games & entertainment

Wright says he loves playing World of Tanks, which is like a "first person shooter for old people."

EA exec Peter Moore responds to Worst Company in America tournament

Peter Moore is on damage control because EA is a favorite to win Consumerist's Worst Company in America poll.

GamesBeat weekly roundup: Disney shutters LucasArts, Zynga tries to reinvigorate OMGPOP, 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.

Required listening: SimCity, Tomb Raider, and BioShock Infinite composer Garry Schyman

This month, Required Listening speaks with veteran composer Garry Schyman about his work on BioShock Infinite and how he used simple string ensembles to bring the floating city Columbia to life.

GamesBeat weekly roundup: EA CEO out, SimCity could have been offline, StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm review

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.

EA up for Consumerist’s Worst Company in America (again)

For this tournament, the publisher will face stiff competition from Walmart, Bank of America, and Carnival (of "Poop Cruise" fame).

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.

Electronic Arts lists the games SimCity owners can choose as a gift

EA denied refunds to upset customers but hopes a free game will restore some good will.

Maxis: ‘Yes’ — we could ‘have built a subset offline mode’ in SimCity

A modder revealed you can continue playing SimCity even when not connected to a server. Maxis responds.

GamesBeat weekly roundup: Whales of social gaming, Starcraft II guide, Saints Row IV, and family Minecraft servers

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.

EA’s Lucy Bradshaw acknowledges SimCity ‘stumbled out of the gate with our service’ (interview)

But she says the game servers can now meet demand and EA has learned valuable lessons.