GamesBeat Weekly Roundup
Here are some of the stories that ran on GamesBeat this week. We’re running more articles exclusively in the GamesBeat section of VentureBeat, particularly...
The DeanBeat: Video games can be about love, not just violence
For decades, the dominant theme in video games has been violence. That’s not surprising, since violent competitions have been dominant in culture for thousands...
Rovio CEO: Actually, Angry Birds Space will come to Windows Phone (updated)
Update: Apparently Rovio’s execs do not communicate with each other. Rovio CEO Mikael Hed just told Reuters that his company is working on Angry...
Zynga to sell 43M shares in secondary offering, bought OMGPOP for $180M
Zynga filed a revised S-1 this morning with the SEC that contained a number of interesting details. It pegged the price of its recent...
Survive the real zombie apocalypse, in an abandoned UK shopping mall (updated)
[Update: You can now read a first hand account of surviving this experience.] For many of us, going to the mall is a terrifying...
Are casino games hot? Mobile Deluxe thinks so (exclusive)
Mobile Deluxe is launching its Big Win Blackjack game today on the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. In any other time, that wouldn’t be...
With 6,000 followers, Zipline launches Moai game-dev platform
Zipline Games has attracted 6,000 game developers to its Moai game development platform. And now it’s formally launching version 1.0. During the past year...
Social Indoctrination
Much has been made of the quality, or more accurately, the lack of it, of the Mass Effect trilogy's ending. Enough has been made of it, in fact, that it has drawn the attention of major news outlets, like the BBC, and CBS, and multiple Tech-Blog posts on Forbes.
A player’s open letter to BioWare
Dear BioWare, You’ve had a tough couple of weeks. It’s understandable. For the most part, you're used to receiving critical acclaim for all you...
Darksiders II is a competent blend of Prince of Persia, Devil May Cry, and Castlevania (preview)
Even before the cliffhanger ending of the original, we all knew a Darksiders II was coming. But developer Vigil Games pulled a fast one...