News Blips: Class canceled over Portal 2, Skyrim mods on consoles, Sony dances around PSP Go rumors, and more
Busy playing Portal 2? I'm sure many of you called in sick to work or school in order to have precious time for more...
Video Blips: Mortal Kombat, Call of Duty: Black Ops, Hunted: The Demon’s Forge, and more
I must admit, I'm pretty terrible at Mortal Kombat and other games of its ilk. But hey, the upgraded visuals allow me to witness...
Gears of war 3 Beta Impressions
Players curious about enlisting as COG soldiers to fight against the ferocious Locust onslaught are going to be in for a treat. Epic Games is definitely working hard on the best title in the Gears of War Trilogy, Gears of War 3.
Zynga’s Mark Pincus: The ethical founder?
The social era of computing has produced three multi-billion dollar companies: Facebook, Twitter and Zynga. As light is increasingly shed on the formation myths...
Reviews Spotlight: Shadows, dragons, noir, and the Darkest of Days
Our weekly Reviews Spotlight is Bitmob's way of pointing an index finger at a select few reviews and saying, “Read these!” Also, it's Bitmob's...
Week in review: Valve widens the audience for Portal 2
Here’s our roundup of the week’s tech business news. First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days: Valve figures out...
SOCOM 4 and teamwork: An interview with Zipper Interactive’s Mark Rogers
While at the Major League Gaming event in Dallas earlier this month, I stopped by the Sony booth and ran into Mark Rogers, one of...
The journey from gamer to father
It's 2:30 in the morning on a Tuesday night. I am exhausted from a concert of goal completing, colorful visuals on my television screen,...
Interview: Penny Arcade’s Robert Khoo on PAX, Child’s Play, and building an empire
Depending on how big of a Penny Arcade fan you are, you may not know who Robert Khoo is. But without Khoo, you may...
Player creativity and emergent gameplay – the secret sauce to interactivity
When talking to a friend recently about Valkyria Chronicles, he asked me, "was the story good enough for you to continue through the scenarios to see what would happen next?" I had to think on this for a moment, as I could not recall the story at all.