The DeanBeat: Movie-like “set pieces” score big sales for video games
With games like Uncharted 3: Drake’s Fortune sweeping us off our feet this holiday season, gamers are getting spoiled by video game “set pieces.”...
More than 1,600 cheaters banned from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has been out for a little over a week now and already 1,600 cheaters and hackers have been...
Interview: Infinity Ward producer talks Modern Warfare Zombies… and aliens
In the second of our trilogy of Modern Warfare 3 launch interviews, VentureBeat sat down with Mark Rubin, executive producer at Infinity Ward, to...
Review: Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 packs enough action for 10 war movies
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 delivers what it promises for gamers. It’s an epic first-person shooter combat game with all of the drama...
Interview: Modern Warfare 3’s creative director discusses blowing up the world, carefully
As part of VentureBeat’s Modern Warfare 3 coverage leading up to our definitive review and the game’s release on Nov. 8, I had the...
Review: Battlefield 3 is EA’s biggest fumble since Medal of Honor
Battlefield 3 is easily the most important holiday release for Electronic Arts. All year the publisher has aggressively hyped the DICE-developed sequel as a Call...
Our picks for the best video games of the fall season
NOTE: Each week, I’m writing a column on videogames called The DeanBeat that’s available to newsletter subscribers a day before it appears on the...
Infinity Ward leader describes replacing “killstreaks” with “pointstreaks” in Modern Warfare 3 (video)
Robert Bowling, creative strategist at Activision Blizzard‘s Infinity Ward studio, says the new Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 coming on November 8 has...
Hands-on with Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 multiplayer
Last night, I took out dozens of enemies in a few rounds of Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 multiplayer combat. But as usual...
The best games of E3 2011
We saw lots of video games at the E3 trade show in Los Angeles last week. Some of them were pretty awesome. The trip...