Microsoft says Xbox 360 sales top 28 million to date, Xbox Live hits 17 million members
Microsoft said today that Xbox 360 sales have topped 28 million since the game console launched in 2005, allowing it to claim a solid...
How the World of Goo became one of the indie video game hits of 2008
The growing popularity of the indie game, World of Goo earned it the No. 1 rank on Amazon’s top ten best-selling PC games recently, albeit temporarily, among...
Revolutionizing business markets with games
David Edery and Ethan Mollick are co-authors of Changing the Game: How Video Games Are Transforming the Future of Business, published in 2008 by...
Dean’s top ten family games of 2008
As always, my other top-ten games lists were chock full of the violent fare that I enjoy. But family games are big in my...
The top 20 game stories of 2008
Please check out our link to VentureBeat’s inaugural game conference, GamesBeat 09, on March 24. Also, see our top 20 game stories of 2008....
The ten most-anticipated video games of 2009
With the new year approaching, there’s no time like the present to look ahead to what is shaping up to be another record-breaking year...
Introducing GamesBeat 2009, a conference about the future of the video game business
[Update: See our new GamesBeat 2009 Games Conference site here.] We’re pleased to announce that VentureBeat will hold its first annual games conference, called...
NeoEdge Networks launches NeoMOM to measure product tastes
Among the major brand advertisers, relatively few grocery product advertisers have moved online to target female audiences. One reason is that there hasn’t been...
Grudge match: Microsoft’s Gears of War 2 vs. Sony’s Resistance 2
The great grudge match of video games in 2006 was Microsoft’s Gears of War versus Sony’s Resistance: Fall of Man. Now the sequels to...
Electronic Arts nearly doubles its layoffs to 10 percent
Hurting from poor sales of its holiday line-up, Electronic Arts said today it would nearly double the number of layoffs from 500 to 1,000...