NRA pulls bait-and-switch with iOS shooting app
NRA: Practice Range uses a low-rent shooter game as a bait-and-switch to educate users on the NRA and responsible gun ownership. While the intent is admirable, the app ultimately serves little purpose.
Apple: ‘Want to criticize religion? Write a book’ — don’t make a game
Apple doesn't believe games are capable of social criticism. What do developers have to say about that?
The consumer technology trends that will matter most in 2013
Our best pattern recognition reveals the tech trends that will be copied over and over again until someone gets it right.
Apple rejects game that explores the ongoing Syrian civil war
Endgame: Syria is a strategy game based on the real war in that country.
Here are the cool technologies we want to use in 2013
Google Glass and self-driving cars top our list of things we want to use soon.
The year in gaming in pictures (photo gallery)
It was an exciting year for the game industry. Here's a visual look at the visual medium of games and the people who make them.
Top game controversies of 2012
From game violence to sex chat, game companies got into hot water in 2012.
Best of GamesBeat 2012 roundup
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.
The DeanBeat: Game industry predictions for 2013
Predictions are always embarrasing in hindsight, but we love going out on a limb.
Microsoft launches first game for iPhone, iPad with Xbox Achievements
In an extension of the Xbox gaming ecosystem to iOS, Microsoft game studio You vs the Internet has launched Wordament, the first-ever game for iOS with Xbox Achievements, on the Apple app store.