Bandi Namco’s bringing its Super Smash Bros.-like anime brawler to the West
J-Stars Victory VS+ contains characters from more than 30 Shonen Jump franchises, like Dragon Ball or One Piece.
Digital crossword puzzle company PuzzleSocial raises $3 million in funding
PuzzleSocial compeleted a Series A funding round.
LittleBigPlanet 3 experiment: It’s like Twitch plays Pokémon but with a robot
Sony must be really bored to set this thing up.
Worst of 2014: Gaming’s biggest disappointments
From broken launches and cancellations, 2014 gave us plenty to complain about.
One of Facebook’s few successful hardcore games hits iPad
The game is KingsRoad, a free-to-play action role-playing game made by veterans from companies like Blizzard and BioWare who now work at developer Rumble Entertainment. Moving to the mobile market will help the company take part in an industry that could be worth $25 billion in worldwide revenues by the end 2014, according to market researcher Newzoo.
GamesBeat weekly roundup: Hearthstone on Android, Telltale does Minecraft, and Notch gets a mansion
Check out our entire week’s worth of coverage on VentureBeat’s channel for video games, GamesBeat.
A Street Fighter first: Capcom ditches in-house engines for Unreal Engine 4
Street Fighter V is getting some help from Epic Games.
Two of gaming’s hottest brands combine: Telltale making an episodic Minecraft series
Telltale is getting all of the big franchises, including Minecraft.
The controversial and unsettling Hatred is on Steam Greenlight (update)
You could help put Hatred on Steam if you actually want to.
Playdots Inc. secures $10 million in funding round
The Dots developer secured $10 million from venture capitalists.