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.

Legasista is an uninspired mess (review)

Legasista is an uninspired role-playing game full of stereotypical characters, annoying dialogue, and repetitive dungeon exploration. At least the music is nice.

Fans enjoy partial success in mission to bring Japanese role-playing games to U.S.

Xenoblade Chronicles and The Last Story have successfully released in the U.S., but Pandora's Tower still remains without a publisher.

The Last Story developer talks Operation Rainfall, reason for cover system, and Wii U

The Last Story developer talks about the game and the reason the team went with a duck-and-cover combat system.

GamesBeat Weekly Roundup

Here are some of the stories that ran on GamesBeat this week. We’re running more articles exclusively in the GamesBeat section of VentureBeat, particularly when they’re mainly of interest to our game readers. The broader-interest posts will continue to run …

Xenoblade Chronicles redeems the Xeno name (review)

Thousands of fans rallied for Xenoblade Chronicles' Western localization. Now that the game has arrived, was it all worth it?

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 …

Crysis 2 leads the list of 2011′s most pirated games

Editorial ‘game of the year 2011′ picks favored the likes of Uncharted 3 and Skyrim, but the pirate vote went to Crysis 2. According to statistics published by BitTorrent blog TorrentFreak, the PC version of Electronic Arts’ first-person shooter was …

10 of the most anticipated video games of 2012

Looking back, I think you’d be hard-pressed to find someone who doesn’t agree that 2011 was a great year for video games. It was a year that brought us Portal 2, Batman: Arkham City, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, and …

Nintendo to release fan favorite Japanese video game Xenoblade Chronicles in America

Nintendo today announced that it is finally bringing critically-acclaimed Japanese role-playing game Xenoblade Chronicles to American gamers after fans campaigned online for its release.

Xenoblade Chronicles is an open world RPG from developer Monolith Soft. It features a wide array …