The DeanBeat: Game acquisitions rise 23 percent to $3.4B in 2012
The game industry set a new record for the money spent on acquisitions, but the number of deals dropped.
Microsoft sells 5.9M Xbox 360s in second quarter; Halo 4 is the best-selling Halo
Xbox 360 was the best-selling home console for the last 24 months, but it can't keep up with 2011 numbers.
Microsoft’s Xbox division down 11 percent for the second quarter
Microsoft's entertainment division brings in $3.772 billion in revenue.
Hoax watch: Xbox 720 may just be named ‘Xbox’
Forget the Xbox 720. Microsoft's Xbox 360 successor may simply end up being called "Xbox," and it could be the beginning of several "X" branded devices.
Rumor: Xbox ‘Durango’ specs leaked with built-in Kinect functionality?
At this point, most of us are willing to put our money on Microsoft and Sony announcing their upcoming consoles at this year's Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), an annual game industry trade show held in Los Angeles.
GamesBeat weekly roundup: Disney Infinity, torsos, and violence in video games
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.
Loose lips sink PlayStations: New specifics about the next Sony console (rumor)
Tech website Digital Foundry claims to have hard data about the PlayStation 4 development kit.
Silicon Knights pulls Too Human from Xbox Live Marketplace
Silicon Knights is likely enacting the court order to destroy unsold copies of Too Human.
How Rick Thompson became the über investor for gaming (interview)
The co-founder of Playdom is funding game companies; he thinks Zynga's chief executive ought to give up his supervoting rights.
Rumor: The next PlayStation is more powerful than the next Xbox
From my experience watching movies about time travel and Jedi Masters — and I’ve watched a ton — the future is a nebulous blur...