Warner Bros. making web video series out of Hawken mech-shooter game
Upcoming PC game Hawken joins the ranks of mech series Robotech and Gundam with a web program.
Cloud gaming finally coming to South Korea (exclusive)
Playcast and cable operator CJ Hellovision to take cloud gaming service to South Korea (exclusive).
GamesBeat weekly roundup: Spelunky, Sony buys Gaikai, and the Walking Dead
If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best games stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.
Study: Westerners like cloud gaming despite not knowing what it is
Once someone explained the possible value to them, however, 52 percent of U.S. digital gamers said they were “very or somewhat interested” in trying out a cloud service, with Australians only slightly less favorable at 49 percent.
Big Fish Games bets on the cloud with a cross-platform casual gaming service
Big Fish Games gives GamesBeat a quick look at their upcoming cloud-based service for casual games.
Updated: Surprise, surprise: Sony drops OnLive support for streaming media player after purchasing Gaikai
[Update: We’ve updated this story to be more precise. It is still confusing, but we’ve added the facts as we know them] Sony has...
How Sony could disrupt its console rivals — and itself — with its Gaikai acquisition
The disruptive effect of Sony’s $380 million acquisition of Gaikai could send reverberations throughout the video game industry. As such, the deal will give...
Sony buys Gaikai game streaming service for $380M
Sony announced tonight that it will acquire the streaming video-game service Gaikai for $380 million. The deal officially closed on June 30, and Sony...
GamesBeat weekly roundup: Dawnguard, Zynga Unleashed, and Sega’s ongoing decline
If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best games stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.
Gaikai streams Bulletstorm console game in the Chrome browser
Game startup Gaikai streamed the high-end first-person shooter Bulletstorm to the Chrome web browser today in a demo at the Google I/O conference in...