Nintendo once accounted for 10% of Walmart’s profits — and 5 other things I learned from reading ‘Console Wars’
To convince Walmart to stock the Genesis, Sega took over the retailer's home town.
GamesBeat weekly roundup: Call of Duty leaks, Xbox goes Hollywood, and Marvel invades Disney Infinity
Thanks to the Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare leak, we’re having a busy day here at GamesBeat. Of course, most of the days are...
Disney and Marvel talk about Disney Infinity 2.0, toy designs, and the Hulk’s awesomeness
Executives from both Marvel and Avalanche tell us what it was like to finally bring some famous comic book icons to the game.
The DeanBeat: Walking the line with unpopular video game causes (update)
The dispute between ZeniMax and John Carmack over the Oculus VR technology isn't easy to figure out.
Call of Duty teaser points to May 4 reveal
Activision is nearing an announcement of the next Call of Duty game.
DayZ’s standalone sales surpass 2 million even though it’s ‘only’ an Early Access game
DayZ is still one of the top-selling games on Steam more than four months after its Early Access release.
Developer challenges my mom to review Escape Goat 2
Ian Stocker enjoyed my mom's review of Dark Souls II so much that he wanted her to play his game, Escape Goat 2.
Doom co-creator John Carmack under fire for allegedly taking ‘proprietary technology’ to Facebook’s Oculus VR
Zenimax says it owns key technology that makes the Oculus Rift work since Carmack developed it while still an employee of id Software.
Trion Worlds takes Defiance into the brave new virtual world of free-to-play
As season two of the SyFy TV show approaches, the online game will try for a much larger audience.
10 bizarre — and real — video-game patents
We dove into the archives at Google Patents and came back with 10 of the strangest ideas for game-related inventions we could find.