Valve’s virtual-reality mastermind joins Facebook’s Oculus VR
Abrash will take the role of chief scientist at Oculus, and he plans to spend the rest of his career working on virtual reality.
Sony exec crows about PlayStation’s indie love: 1,000 publishers and growing
200 new developers from North America have signed up in the last 13 months.
Cut the Rope 2 ready to gobble up players on Android after dropping its $1 pricetag
Developer ZeptoLab reworked Cut the Rope 2 to make it free-to-play on Android. It costs $1 on iOS.
GamesBeat weekly roundup: Facebook buys Oculus, a mom reviews Dark Souls II, and Candy Crush doesn’t crush Wall Street
Check out our entire week’s worth of coverage on VentureBeat’s channel for video games, GamesBeat.
Digital media firm Fullscreen acquires gamer website ScrewAttack
Fullscreen aims to expand its pop culture business with a deep reach into games.
Twitch livestreaming game site improves video quality in Europe with new French servers
This will improve the quality of broadcasts in France and the surrounding nations.
Batman: Arkham Knight — designing a proper Gotham City (and what’s with the Batmobile?) (interview)
We talk with the developers to see why making a "full-sized" Gotham City is so challenging, and why we would even bother driving when we can glide everywhere more quickly.
The DeanBeat: The questions to ask about the current state of games
Here's the speech I made at the Game Developers Conference.
Gree launches its ridiculous fighting game Flop Fu, born from its G-Labs experiment
The title is one of the first to come out of the experimental G-Lab at Gree.
Gamblit Gaming raises $12M to create new kinds of real-money gambling games
Gamblit hopes to be the platform for new kinds of gambling games.