Mojang reveals 20M registered users for Minecraft
In a tweet sent out on Saturday, Markus Persson, aka Notch, the developer behind gaming sensation Minecraft, made note of the 20 million registered...
Trip the light fantastic in indie video game Waveform
When video game programmer and designer Ryan Vandendyck set out to start a new project in the summer of 2009, the idea was simple:...
Ubisoft developers explain the experimental survival game I am Alive (video)
The game play of I Am Alive, a title developed by Ubisoft’s Shanghai studio, is unconventional. Instead of a plethora of weapons and ammo,...
Hands-on with Jawbone’s Up movement-tracking band (video)
Jawbone is one of the new entrants into the market for quantifying your life. Its Up movement and sleep-tracking health wristband is aimed at people...
Check out this giant game of Pong (video)
Hewlett-Packard showed off its giant VantagePoint touchscreen recently by playing a giant game of Pong on the interactive screen. The screen consists of six...
Consumer Electronics Show breaks record with 153,000 attendees
The 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show was the biggest such event in the show’s 44-year history, with more than 153,000 attendees, up from 149,000...
The coolest technology and moments from CES 2012 (slideshow)
Last week, four VentureBeat reporters and our videographer braved the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. They covered 1.861 million square feet of...
Want to capture your own video game footage? Hauppauge explains how (interview)
It wasn’t long ago that capturing your own game footage most likely meant standing in front of your TV and trying to hold a...
Supermicro talks multi-purpose workstations for the power gamer (interview)
On Thursday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, we met with computer manufacturer Supermicro’s technical marketing manager, Bjoern Metzdorf. Metzdorf was accompanied by professional...
For wider appeal, PlayStation Vita can do non-gaming apps like Twitter and Flickr (video)
Sony knows that its new portable console, the PlayStation Vita, is going to live or die on how good its games are. So said...