Sega: Dealing with the console transition, mobile boom, and Sonic (interview)
Sega wants it all: console, mobile, hardcore, and casual. How does this once-king of hardware deal with the challenges of being everything to everyone, everywhere?
Total War series gets a League of Legends-style spin-off
Total War: Rome II is still in the works, but Creative Assembly wants in on some of that MOBA action.
California’s second lady: Games need to ‘think bigger’ about portrayals of women
At the Game Developers Conference, Jennifer Siebel Newsom implored game developers to feature strong women in their games rather than highly sexualized figures.
Kickstarter campaign begins for a spiritual successor to Ecco the Dolphin (exclusive)
The Big Blue game will feature outstanding underwater graphics and a story based on the Gaia theory.
GamesBeat weekly roundup: EA CEO out, SimCity could have been offline, StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm review
If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best video game stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.
Relic moving original Company of Heroes servers to Steamworks
Company of Heroes' original servers run on a now defunct platform. Steamworks will ensure longtime support.
Sega claims to improve Aliens: Colonial Marines’ visuals on PC with 3.8GB update
The game looks better, but is it too little, too late?
Sega teams up with Huddle so game developers can, uh, huddle on cross-Atlantic projects
U.S. and U.K. teams use the cloud to collaborate.
Required Listening: Fire Emblem, Crysis 3, and interview with Tomb Raider composer Jason Graves
Required Listening is a new monthly feature celebrating game music and the people who create it. This month we look at Fire Emblem: Awakening, Aliens: Colonial Marines, Dead Space 3, and Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance and discuss the emotional inspiration for the new Tomb Raider score with composer Jason Graves.
What we can learn from past PlayStation reveals
In just a few short hours, Sony Computer Entertainment will reveal (what we think) is the next PlayStation console. But before it does, why don't we take a look back at how Sony revealed the PS1, PS2, and PS3?