High noon: The confusing lack of spaghetti-western games
Back in the swinging sixties, you couldn't walk 10 feet through the American mid-West without tripping over an Italian film crew working on a spaghetti...
The past, present, and future of video games at the DIY-focused Maker Faire 2012
Maker Faire is a do-it-yourself cultural celebration. In this year's fair, video games had a small, but remarkable presence that provided some insight into the history of the medium.
GamesBeat Weekly Roundup
If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best games stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.
Facebook games now playing in News Feed and Timeline
Leave it to Facebook to invent yet another way to keep us all glued to the site. The social network has made the status...
Atlus prolongs the punishment and keeps North American Demon’s Souls servers online
You didn't think online support for Demon's Souls would die easily, did you? Guess again.
Video game series contract will be tough for Bungie, easy for Activision
The contract between Bungie, the celebrated maker of the Halo series, and Activision Blizzard was unsealed this week in litigation related to Activision’s feud...
Add your face to the wizarding crowd in Harry Potter for Kinect
Warner Bros. Interactive announces Harry Potter for the Kinect, which releases this fall. Time to bust out that robe and hat combo from the closet once more.
The DeanBeat: myVegas social casino games launches with partner MGM
Social casino game startups are the cliché of 2012. Everybody is either starting a new company in this hot market — on the bet...
Square Enix’s Mike Fischer says Activision was “crazy” to abandon True Crime: Hong Kong (interview)
GamesBeat's Dean Takahashi sits down with Mike Fischer, head of North American operations for Square Enix, who says that Activision was crazy to let True Crime: Hong Kong go. Square Enix is publishing that game as Sleeping Dogs
Blizzard announces first Diablo III patches and delays the real-money auction house
Blizzard hopes to roll out client and stability patches for its game Diablo III in the coming week in effort to address ongoing bugs and performance issues.