FIFA 12’s Impact engine: Slapstick foul-baiting simulator
Soccer is a thinking man’s game. Besides challenging players with finicky AI programming, it's a game of tactics, discipline, and knowing the exact opportunity...
Gamer found dead in internet cafe…nine hours later
23-year-old Chen Jung-yu was found dead at an internet cafe in New Taipei, Taiwan on Tuesday night. Jung-yu was rigid in his chair with...
European Playstation Network store broken following maintenance (updated)
Following scheduled maintenance last week, the Playstation Network store in Europe, Australia and New Zealand is no longer working for many users. The problem,...
GamesBeat weekly news roundup
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,...
Review: How Final Fantasy XIII-2 saves the franchise…for now
2010’s Final Fantasy XIII may have sold well enough, but the perplexingly bad design decisions quickly made the title a bitter disappointment for many...
GFACE unveils its new cloud based social gaming network
Crytek, the developer behind Crysis and Far Cry, is backing a new social gaming network called GFACE. Created by a “small team with big...
News Blips: Mass Effect 3 ending, Oklahoma violent-game tax, and The Last of Us in late 2012
I'm always saddened when I reach the conclusion of an epic trilogy — partly because of all the amazing memories I'm left with, and...
Shame is plastic: 6 gaming accessories of dubious quality
Bitmob has a writing challenge this month; the challenge is to revisit some of your worst gaming peripheral purchases and write back with your...
Video Blips: Dragon’s Dogma, Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City, and more
I've seen the standard "burning home village" and "chosen one prophecy" reasons for embarking on a grand adventure plenty of times — but "poked...
Xbox co-creator Seamus Blackley launches mobile-game startup with Atari arcade veterans
Seamus Blackley, the co-creator of the Xbox, passionately believes that gameplay will triumph in the game business. That is why he and his new...