Origin offers 90 days of free distribution to successful Kickstarter games
By taking advantage of EA's generosity, crowd-funded games will have a chance to reach Origin's growing audience of more than 12 million users worldwide.
ZeniMax: The Elder Scrolls Online’s main story is “100 percent solo”
You'll encounter players galore during your travels and adventures within The Elder Scrolls Online -- except when facing a cataclysmic avatar of death towering higher than Mount Everest. Then you're on your own, champ.
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.
Zynga shares drop, trading halted shortly after Facebook IPO
Zynga shares halted as Facebook opens for trading.
The DeanBeat: Can Microsoft’s Kinect gain cred from hardcore gamers?
Microsoft’s Kinect has always held out tantalizing promises. As a user interface, it brings computing devices to the edge of greatness but falls just...
Microsoft’s Kudo Tsunoda on broadening Kinect games to hardcore fans (interview)
Kudo Tsunoda says that more hardcore gaming experiences are coming to Microsoft's Kinect motion-sensing system this year.
The EA-Activision legal feud takes unexpected twists
The lawsuit over the breakup of Infinity Ward and Activision Blizzard has been a proxy war between two industry giants. But this week, the legal case...
With Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time, Sony hopes to bring a classic character to the PS 3
Sony has been revealing layer after layer of Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time. The game is coming this fall to the PlayStation 3 and...
6 reasons E3 might suck this year
This year's E3 is looking more notable for what we won't be seeing.
Mobile startup Fun Machine believes games can do social good
New mobile entertainment software company Fun Machine likes its games to have a positive message.