Sony’s Shu Yoshida talks PlayStation 4: PS3/PSN compatibility, microtransactions, and more
Sony overloaded us with information about the PlayStation 4 last night, but many questions still remain.
PlayStation Cloud streaming tech the ‘fastest gaming network in the world’ — and promises PS4 games on Vita
The new PlayStation Network will make it easy for gamers to instantly share videos of their game with their friends, as well as instantly try new demos, and play on a second screen with their PlayStation Vita.
The DeanBeat: Game acquisitions rise 23 percent to $3.4B in 2012
The game industry set a new record for the money spent on acquisitions, but the number of deals dropped.
The news that shook the game world in 2012
Big failures and surprise successes marked 2012 for the games industry.
Analyst: GameStop store closures could hurt industry sales
GameStop, one of the world's biggest game retailers, will cut its global footprint by about 1 percent.
GamesBeat weekly roundup: Kixeye opens up about racism allegations, OnLive assets sold for $4.8 million
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.
Streaming tech company T5 claims Sony’s Gaikai infringes on its patents
Sony's wholly owned cloud-gaming company is using a technology that the London-based T5 Labs believe it owns.
After OnLive: Here’s why Nvidia believes cloud gaming is just getting started (interview)
After cloud gaming leader OnLive ran out of money in August, the future of cloud gaming became, er, cloudy. Rival cloud gaming service Gaikai...
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.
With AMD investment, CiiNow wants to push cloud gaming beyond where OnLive could take it
Hoping to pick up where OnLive left off, CiiNow is launching cloud gaming software that will serve as the backbone for cloud services that game publishers can launch.