The new Gauntlet dungeon crawler: shallow for today, terrific for 1985
How things change in 30 years: dress up an old arcade game, make it quick and fast and pretty and fun, and it still doesn't meet today's standards.
GamesBeat weekly roundup: GamesBeat 2014, Microsoft buys Mojang, and Destiny reviewed
Check out our entire week’s worth of coverage on VentureBeat’s channel for video games, GamesBeat.
The DeanBeat: GamesBeat 2014 conference brought insights from two generations of EA CEOs
EA's current and former CEOs want to dominate the world, but they have learned humility.
How Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor stays true to Tolkien’s fantasy universe
Monolith had to get its story approved by Middle-earth Enterprises and tackled with the lesser-known nuances of Black Speech.
Award-winning author Neal Stephenson kills his $500,000 Kickstarter swordfighting game, Clang
After a year without updates, the famed science-fiction author has terminated his ambitious game project.
Super Smash Bros. 3DS demo now available for everyone
Everyone can get a taste of Smash Bros. before its full October debut.
Nvidia is going to change the way games look
Voxels are the new benchmark for graphics realism.
Nvidia aims to usher in a new generation of amazing 3D graphics with Maxwell
Nvidia holds a worldwide party to show off its GeForce GTX 980 and 970 graphics cards.
Final Fantasy creator Square Enix unveils Shinra Technologies to make ‘revolutionary’ cloud game tech
New subsidiary aims to launch cloud gaming beta tests in early 2015.
Mobile game developer TinyCo apologizes to the feds for improper marketing toward children
Mobile game developer TinyCo is sorry. The San Francisco-based iOS and Android studio settled with the Federal Trade Commission yesterday and apologized for its transgression. TinyCo paid a $300,000 fine for violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act.