Little Deviants is a complete pest (review)
Little Deviants fell into a trap. The release of Sony’s new hardware has triggered an influx of games that feel compelled to overuse the...
Video Blips: Max Payne 3, Prototype 2, and Crusader Kings II
Oddly enough, Max Payne and Davy Jones have a lot in common. They're equally vexed by women, they both scorn love, and they each...
Technically disastrous Skyrim is Bethesda’s “most solid release” yet
Bethesda Game Studios’ Todd Howard has finally broken his three-month-long silence regarding The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim’s notorious technical issues. “Statistically, it is not...
Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 leaked, Activision implicated in blacklisting cover-up [update]
Along with the ESRB, online game retailers are notorious for revealing unannounced games long before their publishers would like them to be. Amazon France...
An unexpected dinner with Twisted Metal’s David Jaffe
It was 10 p.m. on a cold night in San Francisco, Calif., and David Jaffe was hungry. The creator of Twisted Metal for the...
Coming March 22: Angry Birds Space
It seems that planet Earth isn’t big enough for Angry Birds anymore. The cute cartoon characters are headed into the void with the upcoming...
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: Crowd-funding gives hope to mid-size game developers
Double Fine Productions turned video game funding practices upside down last week when it raised more than $1.75 million through the crowd-funding site Kickstarter...
Linden Lab acquires LittleTextPeople for new projects this year
Anyone remember Linden Lab? How about its game, Second Life? Well, it was the talk of the middle of the last decade (and winner...
Minecraft official LEGO set ready for pre-order
More than 5 million people have been playing with virtual building blocks in Minecraft. This summer, they’ll get the opportunity to manually assemble 480...