Sega: Dealing with the console transition, mobile boom, and Sonic (interview)
Sega wants it all: console, mobile, hardcore, and casual. How does this once-king of hardware deal with the challenges of being everything to everyone, everywhere?
GamesBeat weekly roundup: Disney shutters LucasArts, Zynga tries to reinvigorate OMGPOP, and more
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.
Ghostlight’s worldwide Steam releases could help Japanese role-playing games
Ghostlight is brightening the role-playing game market around the world by bringing Japanese console titles to Steam.
Transistor takes the high road to revenge (preview)
Supergiant Games' creative director Greg Kasavin talks about the themes and motivations behind the robo-busting action of Transistor.
BioShock Infinite SPOILER: You’ve heard Songbird before (video)
[SPOILER] It appears Irrational Games slipped quite an Easter egg into the first BioShock game.
Required listening: SimCity, Tomb Raider, and BioShock Infinite composer Garry Schyman
This month, Required Listening speaks with veteran composer Garry Schyman about his work on BioShock Infinite and how he used simple string ensembles to bring the floating city Columbia to life.
Thief takes major cues from Dishonored, the game inspired by Thief (preview)
The franchise that inspired a decade of action-stealth games makes a stunning return, stealing its protégés' best improvements and adding a few of its own. Now if only the stealth actually worked ... .
How all app publishers can benefit from the mobile gaming industry’s best practices
Free-to-play has revolutionized the monetization model in gaming by charging players based on their willingness to pay, instead of displaying one set price for all. Indeed, through a dynamic pricing scheme for in-app purchase items, free-to-play has enabled game publishers to monetize the whole of the price/demand curve.
NCAA Football 14: My fluffy two-minute interview with cover star Denard Robinson of Michigan
The former University of Michigan star quarterback chats with us about who he plays in football video games and being the face of NCAA Football 14.
Reloaded Games takes freemium APB back to pay-for-play with APB: Vendetta
Reloaded Games saved cops-and-robbers game APB from early extinction back in 2011. Now they're looking to expand the franchise by taking it into another genre and stripping away the free-to-play model that helped make APB a huge success.