Leaked prepaid card confirms Call of Duty: Black Ops II and its launch date
Rumors have been swirling around Activision’s next big game. Now a leaked Target prepaid card has further confirmed the existence of Call of Duty:...
Login online games conference moves to San Francisco
The Login online games conference has changed hands and is moving from Seattle to San Francisco. Seda Balci (pictured), marketing and PR director at...
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.
The top 5 MMOs of 2012 — and what they’re doing differently
2012 will see some of the biggest releases ever in the massively multiplayer online role-playing game genre. GamesBeat has rounded up the most promising titles and asked their developers, “What makes your game unique?”
Leaked Rayman Legends trailer shows NFC tech in action on Wii U (updated)
A trailer for the game Rayman Legends has leaked, demonstrating use of the Wii U’s tablet-like controller, and showing how real world objects can be linked with games on Nintendo’s upcoming console.
Google Zerg rush attacks your search results with this fun Starcraft-inspired easter egg
Quick, get your trigger finger ready. Head over to Google.com and type “zerg rush” (without the quotes) into the search field. Clicking on the...
Non-gamers, here’s why you should care about games
As an early investor in social gaming, I’m often speaking on panels to audiences of gamers, investors, and game company execs. At one such...
Big Fish Games CEO hands reins back to founder Paul Thelen
Jeremy Lewis is stepping down as chief executive of casual game company Big Fish Games. Company founder Paul Thelen, who had previously served as...
The DeanBeat: Follow the people. Follow the money. Into casino games.
When you’re tracking a hot trend or market, it’s always good to keep track of where the smart betting is happening. Follow the money....
Casino games surpass farm games as the darlings of social networks
FarmVille took Facebook by storm in 2009 and gave rise to a sea of rival farm simulations. But those games have begun to decline,...