Comic book guru Stan Lee moves into mobile games
Featuring a new superhero universe created by Stan Lee, Verticus is a free-falling action game slated to hit mobile devices later this year.
New iPod Touch uses last year’s parts, will become obsolete a year sooner
Apple's iPod Touch is actually far less powerful than we thought.
Yo-Yo Ma? Yo mama! Cello Fortress turns live performance into twin-stick shooter
Cello Fortress is an interactive concert experience where audience members attempt to dismantle the cellist's fortress with tanks, while the cellist defends his territory by playing a variety of aggressive and dissonant chords. It sounds ridiculously awesome.
Zynga alleges EA’s chief executive proposed an anti-competitive ‘no hire’ pact or he would ‘rain hell’
Zynga alleges EA tried to get it to collude on not hiring each others' employees.
Zynga strikes back hard at EA in copyright infringement case
Zynga denies copying The Sims Social and lobs legal grenades back at Electronic Arts
Obama runs presidential campaign ads in EA’s online games
Repeating its playbook from 2008, the Obama campaign is taking ads out in EA's online games.
GamesBeat weekly roundup: Nintendo Wii U, Tekken Tag 2, and iPhone 5
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. This week, Nintendo revealed the North American release date and price for the Wii U and Apple unveiled the iPhone 5.
Startup Seeds makes a game out of microlending
Rachel Cook at the team at Seeds are raising money via crowdfunding to gamify micro-lending.
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.
Take it to Vegas: 80M Madden 13 online games match NFL’s Week 1 results (infographic)
With the NFL season in full swing, it's time to talk numbers. For EA Sports, that means how many games people are playing in Madden 13.