The DeanBeat: The BioWare doctors built games the nice way
The BioWare doctors knew that it wasn't about winning or losing the game. It was about how you behaved along the way.
EA draws fire for consulting SEAL who wrote tell-all about killing Bin Laden [updated]
The author of No Easy Day, a former Navy SEAL who was a member of the team that took out Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden, contributed to the production of Medal of Honor: Warfighter. That's caused extra scrutiny of the game's realism.
Zynga alleges EA’s chief executive proposed an anti-competitive ‘no hire’ pact or he would ‘rain hell’
Zynga alleges EA tried to get it to collude on not hiring each others' employees.
Zynga strikes back hard at EA in copyright infringement case
Zynga denies copying The Sims Social and lobs legal grenades back at Electronic Arts
Obama runs presidential campaign ads in EA’s online games
Repeating its playbook from 2008, the Obama campaign is taking ads out in EA's online games.
GamesBeat weekly roundup: Nintendo Wii U, Tekken Tag 2, and iPhone 5
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. This week, Nintendo revealed the North American release date and price for the Wii U and Apple unveiled the iPhone 5.
The DeanBeat: A stellar week for gamers
We saw separate but wonderful visions of the game industry this week in a series of cool events.
Battle over alien tech in Insomniac’s first multiplatform co-op shooter, Fuse
EA and Insomniac Games' upcoming multiplatform shooter puts alien technology in dangerous hands.
iPhone 5 allows ‘ghost racing’ against another player’s best time in Real Racing 3
EA showed off 'ghost racing' in Real Racing 3 at the iPhone 5 event.
The DeanBeat: The race between the game giants and the startups
Who will win the race in the video game business: startups or giants?