Tribeca Film Festival adds game awards in recognition of cultural impact
The Tribeca Film Festival has created an all-star game advisory board, and it plans to add video game awards next year as it recognizes...
Microsoft will launch Halo: Outpost Discovery experience events this summer
Now everybody can become a Halo hero. Microsoft announced today that it will stage a traveling event dubbed Halo: Outpost Discovery in five cities...
Microsoft’s game chief dishes on press events, rumored price cut, and Kinect-less Xbox Ones
Microsoft's Xbox and game studios chief Phil Spencer says that he'll marshal the resources needed to come up with huge new intellectual properties.
Better graphics and physics gave designers more freedom for Halo 4 (interview)
Our interview with David Berger, the technical director for Halo 4, reveals how graphics, physics and game play have been totally revamped in the new game.
‘Give us something BIG!’: 10 of the best live-action video game trailers
For better or worse, it seems like big-budget live-action trailers for video games are here to stay. It's just as well that some publishers are doing them right, as seen in these 10 impressive examples.
E3 2012: Halo 4 to release free Spartan Ops episodic mission packs.
The story of Halo 4 won't be over when you finish that fight. Taking place six months later, the four-player co-op Spartan Ops missions will drop five new missions every week as part of an animated episodic series...for free.
A roundup of stories from the Game Developers Conference
Our GamesBeat team is exhausted after five days of covering the biggest show for game developers in San Francisco. Here’s a day-by-day roundup of...
Halo 4 quotes: The hype, the excitement, and the…huh?
If you think you got a tough job, try deciphering some game-industry speak. Developers can say a whole lot of nothing and still sound great while doing it. Case in point: Check out the various quotes below from Halo 4 developer 343 Industries. These guys can talk. These guys can tease. And if you're a hardcore Halo fan, these guys can even get you excited. But what are they really saying??
11 new things we’ve learned about Halo 4 (with video)
By the end of the year, we may finally solve one of the biggest mysteries in the gaming world: Why do red and blue...