Thief pilfers some needed improvements but forgets to steal a personality (review)
A lackluster story and soulless setting keeps Thief from stealing this reviewer's heart.
Freddie Wong’s Video Game High School hits crowdfunding target — and sets a record
Web series VGHS raises more than $900K for its third and final season.
The Last of Us fan makes awesome Wolf of Wall Street-style trailer
This trailer is so good, Naughty Dog should pay attention.
The best (and worst) of some recent Flappy Bird knockoffs
We can't stop the copies from flooding mobile marketplaces, but we can give them fake awards and make fun of some of them.
BioShock franchise isn’t dead even after Irrational closure and underwhelming Infinite sales
Irrational spent five years making BioShock Infinite. The disc version of Minecraft for Xbox 360 outsold it. Now, Irrational is no more.
GamesBeat weekly roundup: Irrational winds down, Harmonix makes a shooter, and where the Kickstarters are now
Check out our entire week’s worth of coverage on VentureBeat’s channel for video games, GamesBeat.
Report finds free-to-play microtransactions make up 79% of U.S. app store revenues
While paid apps are still performing well, the free-to-play model is growing at a huge rate around the world.
Will Eve: Valkyrie be the exclusive that Oculus Rift needs to take flight? (interview)
Eve: Valkyrie started as a side project. Now it's going to be the poster child for virtual reality games.
The DeanBeat: What Facebook’s $16B acquisition of WhatsApp says about the rise of Asian games
Will games prove to be the decisive source of monetization on mobile messaging networks?
Ditching the physical: 16% of consumers play digital only
As more gamers purchase the new consoles, analysts predict more will adopt digital as their primary method of purchasing software.