Heart of the Swarm brings lack of imagination to a well-designed StarCraft II (review)

Even with a new Zerg campaign and seven additional units for multiplayer, this expansion feels like retreading similar -- albeit well-designed -- ground.

StarCraft II Heart of the Swarm guide: Abilities, mutations, and evolutions

Plan out your revenge with this fully detailed list of all the unlockable abilities and unit evolutions in the latest StarCraft II expansion.

The most popular GamesBeat stories of 2012

Our 10 most read stories on GamesBeat during last year include the Ocean Marketing scandal, an educational outreach program, and Google's Zerg Rush.

Gaming art for your Twitter header (Part 3: PC)

Brighten up your Twitter profile with video game-themed headers of PC titles like Guild Wars 2, League of Legends, and Diablo III.

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.

GamesBeat Weekly Roundup

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.

iSwifter makes iPad game streaming available to all PC game companies (exclusive)

iSwifter found a niche for its cloud streaming service by enabling Flash games to run on the iPad. Now it is extending its platform so that a wider swatch of PC game companies can stream their games to Apple’s tablet.…

72pins creative director discusses taking Call of Duty and Halo back to the 8-bit days

72pins is made up of a small team of retro art makers who take modern games — such as Halo or God of War — and reimagine them as classic Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) carts.

Cleverly coined as “NEStalgia” and …

Justin.tv launches partner program for pro-gaming broadcasters

Video streaming site Justin.tv announced today it’s launching a revenue-sharing program that professional gamers with a large number of followers can enroll in through the company’s competitive-gaming site.

The best of the best in competitive video-game leagues — called e-sports …

Starcraft developer Blizzard interested in making games for iPhone, iPad

Activision-Blizzard’s Greg Street, a lead designer behind the company’s highly successful World of Warcraft online game, told Eurogamer that his company was interested in making games built for the iPhone.

That would give Activision-Blizzard access to millions of iPhone, iPad …

THQ’s Brian Farrell laughs about purple dildos and Space Marines (interview)

Brian Farrell is the longtime chief executive of THQ, the publicly traded video game publisher based in Calabasas, Calif. THQ is in the midst of a turnaround effort as it focuses on better, higher-quality games like many other large rivals …

Can e-sports be bigger than golf? (Q&A)

Justin.tv, a site that lets web browsers watch and publish live video streams, started recruiting additional developers to build an exclusive electronic sports live-streaming website for games like real-time strategy game Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty in March. It’s part …