Friends remember Microsoft renegade Eric Engstrom, who suggested a DirectX console
Eric Engstrom passed away this week, leaving friends in mourning for one of the renegades of the Microsoft empire and a brilliant tech innovator....
How to turn a developer into a founder: Advice from those who’ve done it
Game industry leaders say it takes discipline and learning to shift from hands-on coding to running things.
The DeanBeat: The Nintendo Wii U’s troubles start with a dearth of developers
Even EA says it doesn't consider the Wii U to be a true next-generation console.
The DeanBeat: Nintendo reveals the Wii mini and the opinions fly everywhere
The Wii mini took the industry by surprise this week, and it has polarized the industry.
Developers are mostly thrilled with the chance to make money with Windows 8 games
Windows 8 gaming looks like it will be a success, but the jury is still out on Windows Phone 8 games.
A roundup of stories from the Game Developers Conference
Our GamesBeat team is exhausted after five days of covering the biggest show for game developers in San Francisco. Here’s a day-by-day roundup of...
Alex St. John’s Magi.com launches social gaming hub (exclusive)
Alex St. John is back. The former president of social network Hi5 sold off the struggling service to Tagged in December. But now he is...
Tagged acquires social network Hi5
We’re seeing some social network consolidation happening: Tagged has acquired Hi5. The move will double Tagged’s online community from 10 million to 20 million...
Get the e-book of “Xbox: The Making of a Bad-Ass Machine”
To mark the 10th anniversary of Microsoft’s Xbox, VentureBeat’s lead games writer Dean Takahashi wrote an epic two-part story on the history of the...
The making of the Xbox: Microsoft’s journey to the next generation (part 2)
Update: Don’t like page breaks? This two-part series is now available as an e-book for the Amazon Kindle. Editor’s note: This story is the...