Sportvision wants to let you virtually hit a real Major League pitch (interview)
The company that brought us the yellow first-down line from football telecasts hopes to make sports games more immersive.
How Tencent is slowly transforming into one of gaming's biggest investors
The Chinese company owns portions of Riot Games, Epic Games, and now Activision.
Activision Blizzard stock soars 15%, Zynga's falls 14% — what does it mean for games?
Investors piled out of Zynga and seemingly right into Activision Blizzard.
Puzzle & Dragons developer releases new game Freak Tower
GungHo's Freak Tower is a free-to-play mobile tower-building game.
GamesBeat weekly roundup: Activision buys out Vivendi for $8.17B, Zynga lays out recovery plan
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.
Why Lorne Lanning went from triple-A games to indie — and loudly loves it (interview)
In the old days, Lanning's company made $7 on a $60 console game. Now he makes $7 on a $10 digital game. And he controls his destiny.
55% of Sword & Sworcery's revenue came from iOS, less than 10% from Android
The adventure title sold 1.5 million units. More than a third on iOS.
Is the GamesBeat community ready to forgive the Xbox One?
We asked our community on Twitter how it feels about the Xbox One after some positive policy changes.
As subscribers sink, Blizzard searches for ways to make World of Warcraft grow
Tom Chilton and J. Allen Brack are among those who have to keep World of Warcraft growing.
Shadowrun Returns needs to curtail its nostalgia (review)
Shadowrun Returns blends pen-and-paper role-playing mechanics into a dark, cyberpunk fantasy. It's the first RPG installment in the series since the Super Nintendo, and the series' age is showing.