Preview: Assassin’s Creed Revelations takes plenty of creative risks (video)
Assassin’s Creed Revelations takes a lot of creative risks, considering it is the fourth installment in a video game series that has sold more...
Striiv to start selling its fun fitness gadget on TV shopping network
Striiv, the startup that is trying to make fitness fun,will begin selling its fitness gadget through TV shopping network HSN starting Oct. 22. The...
Replay Games shoots for nostalgia with Leisure Suit Larry revival
Leisure Suit Larry was a tacky video game series that debuted in 1987, chronicling the failed attempts of Larry Laffer, the world’s least successful lover,...
Rixty launches personalized and reloadable gift cards for online games
Rixty is taking online game gift cards to the next level by making them personalized, branded, and reloadable. Online game gift cards have become...
CrowdStar’s Starfund targets mobile game developers with $250K investments (exclusive)
CrowdStar‘s $10 million StarFund investment fund has made investments in six new mobile game startups for about $250,000 each. The first fruits from that...
Uncharted Golden Abyss game brings console-like graphics to PlayStation Vita (video)
Uncharted Golden Abyss is one of the most impressive games on the upcoming PlayStation Vita, the new portable gaming system from Sony that will...
Rage: When game journalists stop being polite and start getting real
An in-depth interview with id Software CEO Todd Hollenshead and game artist Andy Chang, entitled "The Creative Intent of Rage," appeared on Gamasutra this morning,...
6waves Lolapps launches Ravenskye City social game (exclusive)
Hoping to extend a social game franchise, 6waves Lolapps is launching its new Ravenskye City game today. The game is an expansion of the...
Our picks for the best video games of the fall season
NOTE: Each week, I’m writing a column on videogames called The DeanBeat that’s available to newsletter subscribers a day before it appears on the...
Hands-on preview: Uncharted 3 delivers blockbuster fun
Editor’s note: This story contains some spoilers. Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception will be one of the best video games of the year, no question....