PAX East 2012: Storytime with 20-year game veteran Jordan Mechner
After more than 20 years, Jordan Mechner is still excited about making video games. The Prince of Persia creator addressed a packed theater on...
Mass Effect 3 DLC adds playable Geth characters and new stages/weapons
Holy shit! I actually have something good to write about Mass Effect 3. BioWare has announced the Resurgence Pack, which adds new multiplayer characters, stages, and weapons....
Joke app Happy Poo finds some success on Android platform
Urban dictionary defines turd polishing as “The act of trying to make something hopelessly weak and unattractive appear strong and appealing. An impossible process...
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...
Portal’s test chambers created to scale in Minecraft (video)
In the wake of yesterday’s report on the Minecraft Game of Thrones recreation, it’s only fitting that today we find this stunning one-to-one scale...
Retro revival: PC games raise $6.7M and counting in Kickstarter campaigns
Kickstarter’s gone vogue. With a single, bold move by Double Fine’s Tim Schafer in early February, the crowdfunding web site propelled itself into the...
Anomaly: Warzone Earth successfully reverses tower defense (review)
In the year 2018, an alien spaceship breaks in two and crashes on Earth. Terrible invading machines emerge from the wreckage and assemble treacherous gauntlets in the middle of Baghdad and Tokyo. Good thing they know how to implement gamification in their invasion....
Pokémon Black and White 2 will hurt the Nintendo 3DS
I was a little confused when Pokémon Black and White 2 was announced last week for the Nintendo DS. Why isn’t the game coming to the...
On Mass Effect, collaborative storytelling and the end. (SPOILERS)
Let's cut to the chase: there is no possible ending BioWare could have devised for Mass Effect 3 that would have pleased everyone. The beauty of that series — something that has been reaffirmed by the outrage surrounding the finale — is the unique narrative each player builds throughout their 90-hour experience.
Game of Thrones painstakingly recreated in Minecraft (video)
Some of the modern world’s most iconic institutions can be found in Minecraft: the Empire State building, a 1000:1 scale Monopoly board, the U.S.S....