Amazon stops selling digital copies of SimCity as EA shuts off in-game features (update)
EA turned off leaderboards, achievements, and the game's fastest speed setting.
Guitar Hero creator’s Green Throttle Arena turns Android gaming into a hardcore experience (exclusive video)
After a year of planning, Green Throttle Games is releasing its Arena gaming system on the Amazon Kindle Fire, and that's cause enough for Microsoft and Sony to start worrying.
2012 a very good year for casual game developer Wooga: It’s finally profitable
Wooga currently has 50 million active monthly users across its mobile and web games.
You can preorder an Ouya starting today on Amazon, GameStop — hits retail in June
Best Buy, Target, and GameStop will begin selling Ouya in June for $99.99.
Amazon launches its own virtual currency for Kindle Fire: ‘Amazon Coins’
Now Amazon has yet another way to differentiate the Kindle Fire from other Android tablets.
This week in the Nintendo Download: Fire Emblem, Crash Mobs, and Kirby
This week's eShop updates are (almost) all about the 3DS, with emblems to awaken, Nemos to find, and groups of Japanese pedestrians to hurl through the air.
Here’s the scorecard on our 2012 predictions for the game industry
Before you read our forecast for 2013, take a look at how we did on last year's predictions.
Guitar Hero co-creator unveils startup with a plan to mobilize the living room (exclusive interview)
Charles Huang, the cocreator of Guitar Hero, wants to connect a game controller to your smartphone and play games on your TV. But the plan is more than that.
GamesBeat weekly roundup: Disney buys LucasArts/Lucasfilm, Halo 4 reviewed, and Valve dislikes Windows 8
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.
Amazon Game Studios launches its first mobile game: Air Patriots
Amazon has become a first-party producer of games for its own platforms.