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.

Report: The most-played games of 2012

Raptr released its annual Raptr Report detailing the most played games of 2012, and it carries a few surprises about how gamers spent their time this year.

Minecraft digs upwards and becomes most-played Xbox Live Arcade title

Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition became the most-played Xbox Live Arcade title in the first week of its release. Turns out digging for mono-colored boxes is actually fun.

Journey designer: PlayStation Network players “more likely to be interested in artistic games” than 360 or Wii

Journey lead designer Jenova Chen told GamesBeat why he prefers working with Sony. It has everything to do with the audience that he wishes to reach with his work.

3 of gaming’s most elaborate inside jokes

While developers referencing other companies' games is nothing new, a few game makers have gone all-out with their nods to other titles.

Trials Evolution breaks XBLA record with highest day-one sales

Trials Evolution, the first title in Arcade Next promotion, just broke the Xbox Live Arcade record for the highest-grossing day-one sales.

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.

Trials Evolution hits the throttle and never lets up (review)

The formula is simple: You control a dude on a motorbike and must use careful timing and acceleration to traverse 2-dimensional obstacle courses. But so much can go wrong with simple ideas, and yet Trials Evolution doesn’t fall victim to …

GamesBeat Review Vault

Below you’ll find a listing of every GamesBeat game review to date. They are listed in reverse chronological order with the latest review appearing at the top. Note that the dates listed are for when the review was posted, not …

Trials Evolution creative director discusses going bigger, multiplayer, and female riders (interview)

Trials HD is one of the best-selling Xbox Live Arcade games to date, and for good reason. Released in 2009, the creative, side-scrolling physics-based platformer takes place entirely on two wheels. Coupled with user-created tracks, the game has near-endless value, …