Kingdom Conquest II primer: How to protect yourself and dominate your enemies

Kingdom Conquest II combines card battles, resource management, and dungeon exploration into its massively multiplayer online universe.

The best games of 2012 (GamesBeat staff picks)

The Walking Dead may be GamesBeat's Game of the Year for 2012, but here's the other titles our staff picked as contenders for the crown.

Justin Bieber, Minecraft’s Creeper, and other cameos in modern games (gallery)

Whether hidden or obvious, spotting cameos in video games is always cool. Here are a 13 examples.

GamesBeat weekly roundup: Dragon Age III, Borderlands 2, and the BioWare doctors retire

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.

Torchlight II is a poor man’s Diablo that’s rich in content but not originality (review)

Torchlight II might be a cheap alternative to Diablo, but the price is no reflection of its quality.

Facing down the giants: CEO Max Schaefer talks Torchlight II and its competition

Chief executive officer Max Schaefer explains where Torchlight II stands in the current action-RPG market.

Runic Games presents the pets of Torchlight II (video)

Unlike Diablo III, Runic Games’ long-awaited Torchlight II still doesn’t have a release date. What is does have, however, is pets, and lots of them — something that you can no longer say about Blizzard Entertainment’s upcoming dungeon crawler.

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