Categories Posted inin Business 5.5 million people watched Valve’s Dota 2 documentary over the weekend Posted byby Jeff Grubb March 24, 2014 2 min Valve gave away "Free to Play: The Movie" on Steam as well as YouTube. Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business Dark Souls II: Kills great, less tedious (review) Posted byby GamesBeat March 24, 2014 6 min Dark Souls II improves upon the original in almost every way. Continue Reading 6 min
Categories Posted inin Business Record-breaking GDC drew more than 24,000 game developers to San Francisco Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 24, 2014 2 min Attendees watched talks on everything from sexism in games to Sony's new VR headset. Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business Nexon’s Owen Mahoney sees salvation through original hardcore games, not Flappy Bird copycats (interview) Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 23, 2014 11 min Nexon's Owen Mahoney is driving his company toward more creative free-to-play titles. Continue Reading 11 min
Categories Posted inin Business Microsoft’s game studio chief Phil Spencer defends the Xbox One launch strategy Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 21, 2014 4 min Phil Spencer says that Microsoft is learning and adapting as it fights the console war. Continue Reading 4 min
Categories Posted inin Business Crytek and DeNA partner to launch mobile action game The Collectables Posted byby Jeff Grubb March 21, 2014 2 min The Collectables brings high-quality 3D visuals to iOS using Crytek's CryEngine development tool. Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business Adam Orth: Internet toxicity’s effect on the game industry is ‘very real and very dangerous’ Posted byby GamesBeat March 21, 2014 3 min SAN FRANCISCO — Adam Orth knows that he made a terrible mistake last April when he tweeted that he didn’t understand the controversy about always-online... Continue Reading 3 min
Categories Posted inin Business GamesBeat weekly roundup: Game Developer’s Conference, Sony plans for virtual reality, and Minecraft makes more mulah Posted byby Mike Minotti March 21, 2014 4 min Check out our entire week’s worth of coverage on VentureBeat’s channel for video games, GamesBeat. Continue Reading 4 min
Categories Posted inin Business Threeview: Thief reviewed by a critic, an analyst, and an academic Posted byby GamesBeat March 21, 2014 5 min While our staff and academic reviewer thought Thief was decent but had issues, our analyst took a much different position. Continue Reading 5 min
Categories Posted inin Business Assassin’s Creed: Unity takes the series to France on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC Posted byby Jeff Grubb March 21, 2014 1 min Ubisoft worked for three years on this latest entry in the AssassIn's Creed franchise, which it won't sell for Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3. Continue Reading 1 min