GamesBeat weekly roundup: MMO troubles, virtual reality, gaming, and slow Vita sales
Missed the latest news on GamesBeat? Here's a list of the stories we ran over the past week.
EA sues Zynga, alleging The Ville is a blatant clone of The Sims Social
EA and Zynga, two of the world's biggest game companies, are at war over copyrights.
Music and videos coming to Ouya via Vevo
We haven't heard much about the non-gaming functionality of the Ouya. Today we learned that the music video-streaming app Vevo will be available on the android-based console.
13-foot 12,000-pound mechanized robot suit now for sale in Japan
Japan is the land of robots, right? But not just inoffensive little welding bots that make Toyota minivans and Honda Civics. Instead, Suidobashi Heavy Industry...
Zynga stuck in real-life BadNewsVille: more lawsuits, COO demoted
Zynga’s bad day on July 25 when the company reported horrible earnings turned into a bad week when investors found out that insiders cashed out...
Notch answers Q&A thread on Reddit, talks Minecraft, game development, and the gender of his beard
The creator and original lead developer of Minecraft, Markus "Notch" Persson, takes to Reddit to answer a host of questions from the social news site's users.
With subscribers below 1M, Star Wars: The Old Republic will go free-to-play this fall
BioWare's massively multiplayer blockbuster Star Wars: The Old Republic adds free-to-play and microtransactions this fall. This cantina is about to get a lot more crowded....
Katamari Damacy is arty enough for the New York Museum of Modern Art
If games can't be art, then someone forgot to tell this New York museum. Katamari Damacy will appear in a new exhibit about design for children.
Wikipad reveals specs for gaming tablet (exclusive)
Wikipad, the company developing an identically named tablet that will ship with an attachable gamepad for console-style gaming, has revealed the specifications of the...
SeeYouInCourtVille: law firms investigating Zynga for possible insider trading
Three months before releasing a quarterly earnings report that slaughtered an already-decimated stock, Zynga executives and investors unloaded some of their stock, raking in...