Underneath Fuse’s brilliant combat system is a steep learning curve (preview)

Insomniac Games says it'll be the best four-player co-op shooter when it releases later this year. After overcoming Fuse's steep learning curve, I'm almost convinced that it may be right.

Video game characters modeled after famous people (gallery)

Game developers love using celebrities' likenesses to shape their heroes and villains. Check out these 21 examples.

10 female characters not featured in their game’s cover (and 10 that are)

Many female characters get excluded from the game's cover in favor of male protagonists. Did your favorite heroines make the cut?

GamesBeat giveaways: PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale beta

We're giving away early access codes for the PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale public beta. If you want to start fighting before October 23, tell us who you're most excited to play when the game launches!

Left out? Sony franchises we may miss in PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale

PlayStation All-Stars celebrates popular Sony franchises like God of War and Uncharted, but obscure properties like Jumping Flash and Blasto may be left out in the cold.

Bringing back Tomb Raider: Our need to fill the old archeologist’s shoes

Indiana Jones inspired both Lara Croft and Nathan Drake, and with the Tomb Raider reboot around the corner, these adventurers are here to stay.

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.

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 …

Review: Ezio’s not the only thing getting old in Assassin’s Creed: Revelations

Assassin’s Creed: Revelations is the fourth title in Ubisoft’s award-winning, multi-platinum franchise. Developed by multiple internal studios around the globe and spanning more than 400 individual team members, the Assassin’s Creed series needs to sell better than most in order …

Review: Uncharted 3 is one of the best — and most annoying — games of the year

Editor’s note: This review contains some story spoilers.

Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception is one of the best video games of the year. In fact, it is one of the best I’ve ever played. But it will also go down as …

Cheap Uncharted bundle coming ahead of Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception release

Naughty Dog will release a video game package that includes two blockbusters, Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune and Uncharted 2: Among Thieves The bundle is due July 22, ahead of the release of its highly-anticipated third Uncharted game, according to ComputerandVideoGames.com.

The …

This year’s top surprises at E3

With the video game industry’s largest trade show over, it’s time to wrap up some of the highlights. We’ll start with the biggest surprises that VentureBeat’s Dean Takahashi and I saw at the Electronic Entertainment Expo.

Franchise reboots are as