NCAA Football 13 is a fun experience that’s still too raw to turn pro (review)
While EA Sports has continued its quantity-over-quality approach with NCAA Football 13, the title still provides a solid college football experience.
GamesBeat 2012 roundup: The Crossover Era, Ouya, the iPad as this generation’s console
The GamesBeat 2012 conference called on speakers from the hottest mobile, social, PC, and console companies to debate new ways to stay on pace with changing consumer tastes and platforms. Here is a collection of the stories out of this year's event.
Electronic Arts envisions a future free of platform shackles
EA believes gaming's future will prune away the barriers of the walled garden.
Legendary game exec Bing Gordon on epic poems, the golden age of gaming, and Xbox as a platform
Former Electronic Arts exec and current Kleiner Perkins partner Bing Gordon was on-stage at MobileBeat 2012 today in San Francisco. After opening unconventionally with...
17 reasons to go to GamesBeat 2012
We’ve been writing a lot of posts about our speakers at GamesBeat 2012. But here’s a summary of why we think this is the...
Beatles legend Paul McCartney is working on music for former Halo dev Bungie
Celebrated musician Paul McCartney is working with Bugie Studio to create original music.
EA goes after CityVille with today’s launch of SimCity Social
In a bid to unseat Zynga’s CityVille game on Facebook, Electronic Arts has launched SimCity Social today. The new city-building simulation game represents the culmination of...
What happened to the horror in survival horror?
In their attempts to reach a wider audience, survival-horror video game developers could be ruining what made their games great in the first place: the horror.
The DeanBeat: Zynga battles to dominate the red ocean, not the blue
Will the red ocean strategy work for Zynga? The sharks are in the water as the social game giant goes head-on against competitors.
Meet the judges for our GamesBeat 2012 ‘Who’s Got Game’ game-startup competition
We’d like to formally introduce our judges for the Who’s Got Game contest for the industry’s best game startup. They include: Ann Burkett is...