Sony’s Utter Hypocrisy: Egoraptor & The Tester
Outside of "hardcore" PlayStation fanboys, it's probably safe to say that Arin Hanson, better known as Egoraptor, is the only reason anyone is watching Season 3 of...
New details and Outland screens from “World of Warcraft within Minecraft” project (exclusive interview)
A 27-year-old U.S. graduate student known as “Ramses” is creating a stir in the community of Minecraft, the sandbox-building game by Swedish development studio...
Activision’s Eric Hirshberg: Turning games into brands and other non-douche moves (exclusive interview)
Eric Hirshberg was an experiment when Activision Blizzard‘s chief executive hired Hirshberg as CEO of the Activision Publishing division about 18 months ago. Hirshberg...
Helpful infographics illuminate Pokemon’s brokenness
Just like those douchebag trainers getting in your way in the countryside, Pokemon walkthroughs dot the Internet, covering every possible strategy for the venerable...
The DICE Summit in pictures (photo gallery)
Here’s our photo gallery from the DICE Summit 2012. This year’s conference drew more than 700 game industry luminaries to a wide variety of...
GamesBeat weekly roundup: DICE Summit news and more
Here’s some of the stories that ran only on GamesBeat this week. We’re running more stories exclusively on the GamesBeat section of VentureBeat now,...
Video Blips: Mass Effect 3, Alan Wake’s American Nightmare, and Lollipop Chainsaw
Like many of you, I'm replaying Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2 in anticipation of BioWare's upcoming epic threequel. Well, "replaying" in this case...
Here’s what we REALLY thought about this week’s news (video)
[vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/36575210 w=640&h=376] Skyrim is awesome; Pinterest users need to calm the hell down; and Facebook users need to stay away from the gun...
Valve’s Gabe Newell offers update on Steam security breach
Back in November, we learned that Valve’s online game-distribution service, Steam, had suffered a security breach. A letter to Steam users from co-founder and...
Ninja Gaiden’s creator Itagaki pleads for game designers to create titles that change lives
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Tomonobu Itagaki was at the top of his game. The legendary Japanese game design leader of Team...