GamesBeat weekly roundup: Xbox One unveiled, Yahoo acquires a game company

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.

This week, Microsoft unveiled the Xbox One, the company’s next-gen console and one-stop living room entertainment device, Ex-EA chief John Riccitiello urges console makers to consider consumer wants before shipping products, and Yahoo continues its acquisition madness by picking up the game company PlayScale.

You’ll also find a review of Resident Evil: Revelations as well as previews for Batman: Arkham Origins, Dying Light, and Civilization V’s Brave New World.

Xbox One

• The DeanBeat: Microsoft and Sony should escape binary thinking
• GamesBeat’s complete coverage for Microsoft’s Xbox One announcement
• Microsoft making $1B bet on Xbox One games, says bigwig Phil Harrison
• Xbox One vs. PlayStation 4: A battle for next-gen supremacy
• Microsoft shows behind-the-scenes design of its Xbox One game controller
• Xbox One: Microsoft’s boldest attempt to unify its services is a game console

News

• DmC: Devil May Cry developer working on beat-em-up for iOS and Android
• Craziest special edition ever? $190K Grid 2 bundle comes with … a car
• PSA: Xbox Live was not hacked today
• Super Stardust HD developer working on spiritual successor for PlayStation 4
• This is what a $150 Grand Theft Auto V: Collector’s Edition looks like
• Nintendo issues another patch for Wii U
• Skullgirls getting arcade port in Japan
• U.S. version of Animal Crossing: New Leaf has Twitter and Tumblr support
• Ex-EA chief John Riccitiello pushes console makers to get four things right in this generation
• Call in sick: Plants vs. Zombies Adventures is out now
• Nintendo promises to ‘discuss’ new Smash Bros., 3D Mario, and Mario Kart before E3
• Defiance developer cuts staff; MMO Rift unaffected
• EA appoints New York Times digital-product expert to its board
• Amazon taking Madden NFL 25: Annivesary Edition preorders — bundled with NFL Sunday Ticket

Mobile news

• Hooked Media turns in an entirely new take on app recommendation — one that Apple can’t kill
• Zynga unleashes Gauntlet-like Battlestone on iOS
• G.I. Joe: Battleground looks to capture the cartoon in a modern mobile game
• DeNA developing Dungeons & Dragons: Arena of War for mobile based on ‘D&D Next’
• Top Eleven developer trumpets the social soccer game’s impressive growth
• Jawfish launches real-time multiplayer game tournaments on mobile devices
• Happy Cloud announces $4.25M funding round and new chief executive
• WildTangent launches mobile games on Asus tablets
• DeNA to publish Peter Molyneux’s Godus mobile game

Acquisitions incorporated

• Marissa Mayer and Yahoo are on fire, acquiring gaming company PlayerScale

Tech news

• Who needs an Xbox One? Nvidia shows off new speedy graphics card
• Big Fish Games takes its cloud-gaming service to all four major screens
• HP launches a 20-inch all-in-one that doubles as a tabletop computer

Trailer hoedown

• Destiny looks like Star Wars, Halo, and World of Warcraft in its newest trailer

Previews

• Warner’s Dying Light will make you a zombie hunter by day, a terrified victim by night (preview)
• Batman: Arkham Origins hits the repeat button hard (preview)
• Civilization V’s Brave New World expansion feels like a culture club (hands-on preview)

Reviews

• Resident Evil: Revelations is classic, slightly buggy, fun (review)

Interviews

• Activision’s Eric Hirshberg bets that 40M Call of Duty fans will follow him to Xbox One (interview)
• Dying Light developer explains how to roam an open world full of hungry zombies (interview)
• How Activision plans to beat Disney with the marketing of Skylanders: Swap Force (interview)
• Batman: Arkham Origins’ senior producer on how — and when — to move the needle (interview)
• How Smooth McGroove quit his day job to record a capella versions of classic gaming tunes (interview)

Pieces of flair

• Beating down a fighting-game master with Divekick’s two-button gameplay
• Ceiling Kinect and Call of Duty dogs: The top Xbox One GIFs and memes (so far)
• GamesBeat’s Favorite Skyrim Mods #9: Dwemer Mechanical Mounts & Followers
• ROUNDTABLE’D! Game characters red-ring the Xbox One!
• The top 6 MMOs you should be playing this year
• EA’s ulterior motive behind killing the Online Pass
• Consoles that won’t die: The Sega Dreamcast