Kate Edwards takes over the IGDA in a time of turmoil for games (interview)

The new International Game Developers Association leader believes that fairness to women is a vital issue in the game business.

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.

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.

The biggest gaming surprises of 2012

It doesn't matter how closely you follow the news or how often you refresh your browser; some companies can still manage to catch the gaming public completely unaware. Here are some of our picks for the biggest surprises of 2012.

GamesBeat weekly roundup: Halo 4, Grand Theft Auto V reveal, THQ for sale

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.

Star Wars: The Old Republic set for free-to-play debut

Get to level 50 without paying a single cent? Yes, please.

Bioware, the developer behind Star Wars: The Old Republic, has just posted a fairly thorough explanation of what it’s doing to prepare its Star Wars-themed massively multiplayer online …

Jedi, fedoras, and carpal tunnel: A history of LucasArts

What if LucasArts never existed? What if the irascible filmmaker, beloved (and despised) the world over for his invaluable contributions to the pop-culture lexicon, had stuck to making space operas and juvenile fantasies about archeologists in fedora hats? What if George Lucas never entered the arena of gaming 30 years ago?

Bouyed by sports games, EA beat analysts’ estimates for second fiscal quarter

One of the bellwether companies for the video game business reports its earnings for the third quarter.

GamesBeat weekly roundup: Cliff Bleszinski, Skylanders Giants, and alleged racism at Kixeye

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.

The DeanBeat: Being a tortoise isn’t so bad, but the water is choppy, EA’s top game studio boss says

Zynga was the hare. EA was the tortoise. Do we know who won the race?

GamesBeat weekly roundup: MMO troubles, virtual reality, gaming, and slow Vita sales

Missed the latest news on GamesBeat? Here's a list of the stories we ran over the past week.

Tracking Star Wars: The Old Republic’s declining subscribers

The line graph inside shows the declining subscriber numbers for publisher Electronic Arts' massively multiplayer game, Star Wars: The Old Republic.