New iPod Touch uses last year’s parts, will become obsolete a year sooner
Apple's iPod Touch is actually far less powerful than we thought.
Yo-Yo Ma? Yo mama! Cello Fortress turns live performance into twin-stick shooter
Cello Fortress is an interactive concert experience where audience members attempt to dismantle the cellist's fortress with tanks, while the cellist defends his territory by playing a variety of aggressive and dissonant chords. It sounds ridiculously awesome.
Zynga alleges EA’s chief executive proposed an anti-competitive ‘no hire’ pact or he would ‘rain hell’
Zynga alleges EA tried to get it to collude on not hiring each others' employees.
Zynga strikes back hard at EA in copyright infringement case
Zynga denies copying The Sims Social and lobs legal grenades back at Electronic Arts
Nintendo VP Scott Moffitt dishes on the Wii U’s $299 price, living room strategy, and more (interview)
At Nintendo's Wii U launch event in NYC this week, we spoke with Nintendo's executive vice president of sales Scott Moffitt, the man responsible for getting us pumped about the Wii U.
Obama runs presidential campaign ads in EA’s online games
Repeating its playbook from 2008, the Obama campaign is taking ads out in EA's online games.
Activision is finally swinging for the fences in mobile games (interview)
Greg Canessa is the vice president of mobile at Activision Blizzard and his job is to move the video game giant into the mobile gaming market in an intelligent way -- especially when it comes to the Kindle Fire and iOS.
Shocker! A video game trailer’s popularity foretells sales
Are video game trailers a good tea leaf for sales? Analyst Atul Bagga thinks so.
GamesBeat weekly roundup: Nintendo Wii U, Tekken Tag 2, and iPhone 5
If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best video game stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed. This week, Nintendo revealed the North American release date and price for the Wii U and Apple unveiled the iPhone 5.
Startup Seeds makes a game out of microlending
Rachel Cook at the team at Seeds are raising money via crowdfunding to gamify micro-lending.