Review: Need for Speed: The Run falls miles behind Hot Pursuit
Need for Speed: The Run is Electronic Arts’ newest installment in the long-running franchise and the next try at restoring the series back to...
The DeanBeat: Building a better GamesBeat
For almost four years, we’ve been building out GamesBeat as VentureBeat’s game channel. We have held three annual GamesBeat conferences where the movers and...
Modern Warfare 3 trounces Battlefield 3 in online play time
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 is blasting away at Battlefield 3 in the number of hours played, according to an analysis and survey...
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim ships 7M copies, actual sales unclear
Bethesda Softworks, publisher of last week’s long-awaited The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, has announced that its latest game has shipped seven million copies globally...
Inside Will Wright’s next big game: HiveMind (exclusive)
Will Wright has created some of the biggest video games of all time, from SimCity to The Sims — games that have sold well...
Nintendo’s Wii U online service may be powered exclusively by EA’s Origin
Nintendo could be looking for third parties to provide the online infrastructure for its upcoming Wii U console, according to a report released this...
Hundreds of Battlefield 3 players banned for glitch exploit
Swedish developer DICE announced over Twitter this weekend that it has banned “hundreds of offending accounts” for cheating in its military shooter Battlefield 3....
Gaming stamina and player growth is on the rise, PopCap survey says
The percentage of the internet users in the U.S and the U.K. who play social games for periods greater than 15 minutes a week...
U.S. console video games (finally) grow 1 percent in October
U.S. retail video game sales finally showed some life in October, when sales grew 1 percent from a year ago, according to market researcher...
EA executive confirms Battlefield 4 is in the works
Electronic Arts executiveFrank Gibeau has confirmed that Battlefield 4 is in the works. Gibeau, the president of the EA Games label within EA, made...