The year in gaming in pictures (photo gallery)
It was an exciting year for the game industry. Here's a visual look at the visual medium of games and the people who make them.
Free month of Xbox Live Gold for users impacted by cloud-save outage
Microsoft hates it when you're mad. Here, have some free Xbox Live Gold.
Update: Xbox Live suffering from lingering cloud-storage problems
Some people are unable to access their save games on Xbox Live's cloud storage.
Best of GamesBeat 2012 roundup
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.
Here’s the scorecard on our 2012 predictions for the game industry
Before you read our forecast for 2013, take a look at how we did on last year's predictions.
The DeanBeat: Game industry predictions for 2013
Predictions are always embarrasing in hindsight, but we love going out on a limb.
The news that shook the game world in 2012
Big failures and surprise successes marked 2012 for the games industry.
Microsoft launches first game for iPhone, iPad with Xbox Achievements
In an extension of the Xbox gaming ecosystem to iOS, Microsoft game studio You vs the Internet has launched Wordament, the first-ever game for iOS with Xbox Achievements, on the Apple app store.
2012’s most innovative game ideas
The video game industry always moves forward, striving to do more. The games we played in 2012 impressed and surprised us with the risks they took and gave us great hopes for what comes next.