Why Sony’s Shu Yoshida thinks the PlayStation Vita will kill it in the U.S. compared to Japan (interview)
Shuhei Yoshida is in charge of all of the games that Sony makes internally for the PlayStation 3 and its other platforms. The president...
Double Fine’s Kickstarter success shows publishers what players want
A large number of reactions emerged from the Double Fine Kickstarter news, but one of the first headlines that started popping up around the...
Activision’s Eric Hirshberg: Turning games into brands and other non-douche moves (exclusive interview)
Eric Hirshberg was an experiment when Activision Blizzard‘s chief executive hired Hirshberg as CEO of the Activision Publishing division about 18 months ago. Hirshberg...
Helpful infographics illuminate Pokemon’s brokenness
Just like those douchebag trainers getting in your way in the countryside, Pokemon walkthroughs dot the Internet, covering every possible strategy for the venerable...
The DICE Summit in pictures (photo gallery)
Here’s our photo gallery from the DICE Summit 2012. This year’s conference drew more than 700 game industry luminaries to a wide variety of...
GamesBeat weekly roundup: DICE Summit news and more
Here’s some of the stories that ran only on GamesBeat this week. We’re running more stories exclusively on the GamesBeat section of VentureBeat now,...
Video Blips: Mass Effect 3, Alan Wake’s American Nightmare, and Lollipop Chainsaw
Like many of you, I'm replaying Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2 in anticipation of BioWare's upcoming epic threequel. Well, "replaying" in this case...
Valve’s Gabe Newell offers update on Steam security breach
Back in November, we learned that Valve’s online game-distribution service, Steam, had suffered a security breach. A letter to Steam users from co-founder and...
Ninja Gaiden’s creator Itagaki pleads for game designers to create titles that change lives
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Tomonobu Itagaki was at the top of his game. The legendary Japanese game design leader of Team...
Call of Duty Elite: It’s not a douche move — Activision Publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg
Eric Hirshberg, chief executive of Activision Publishing, talked about the role that creative people should play in making decisions about running a video game...