Microsoft readies Windows 8 app store games
Microsoft is preparing a slate of games for the Windows 8 operating system that consumers will be able to purchase on the upcoming Windows...
Meteor Games to publish high-end online game Hawken in December (exclusive)
Hawken is one of the coolest online games in development for publication on the web. Adhesive Games, the startup studio that is making the...
Gamer found dead in internet cafe…nine hours later
23-year-old Chen Jung-yu was found dead at an internet cafe in New Taipei, Taiwan on Tuesday night. Jung-yu was rigid in his chair with...
GamesBeat weekly news roundup
Here’s some of the stories that ran only on GamesBeat this week. We’re running more stories exclusively on the GamesBeat section of VentureBeat now,...
Review: How Final Fantasy XIII-2 saves the franchise…for now
2010’s Final Fantasy XIII may have sold well enough, but the perplexingly bad design decisions quickly made the title a bitter disappointment for many...
Xbox co-creator Seamus Blackley launches mobile-game startup with Atari arcade veterans
Seamus Blackley, the co-creator of the Xbox, passionately believes that gameplay will triumph in the game business. That is why he and his new...
The DeanBeat: Billionaire Mark Pincus breaks out of quiet period (exclusive interview)
Mark Pincus is the newest billionaire in Silicon Valley, thanks to the December initial public offering of Zynga, the social game giant he founded...
EA releases new stats on Star Wars: The Old Republic online game — 20B enemies slain
Electronic Arts issued new data about the launch of the six-week-old massively multiplayer online game Star Wars: The Old Republic. As previously noted, EA...
Richard “Lord British” Garriott in space: “I might just sit up in my window in orbit and write the next game” (interview)
Richard Garriott is best known as Lord British, the designer of video games that have been enjoyed by tens of millions of people over...
HTML5 versus Adobe Flash (infographic)
One of Steve Jobs’ last major acts before passing was to launch an attack on Adobe Flash. Mobile Apple devices began blocking Flash-powered content,...