Xbox boss: Halo 4 will work with Surface tablet
Microsoft exec Don Mattrick says Halo 4 will work with Surface, the company's upcoming tablet.
Legendary game exec Bing Gordon on epic poems, the golden age of gaming, and Xbox as a platform
Former Electronic Arts exec and current Kleiner Perkins partner Bing Gordon was on-stage at MobileBeat 2012 today in San Francisco. After opening unconventionally with...
June retail video game sales expected to be a dud
U.S. video game sales for the month of June are expected to be down 34 percent compared to a year ago, according to a...
GamesBeat weekly roundup: Spelunky, Sony buys Gaikai, and the Walking Dead
If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best games stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.
The road ahead in gaming: Welcome to the Crossover Era
Crossing over from an existing market to an emerging one is what our GameBeat 2012 conference is all about. We're seeing this trend play out in every segment of games.
Nintendo: Online subscriptions ‘aren’t always the best’
Nintendo says it has no current plans to charge members for its online services with its upcoming Nintendo Network.
Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn live-action trailer launches on Machinima
Microsoft is taking the transmedia approach to the launch of its Halo 4 video game for the Xbox 360 this fall with a Halo...
GamesBeat weekly roundup: Dawnguard, Zynga Unleashed, and Sega’s ongoing decline
If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best games stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.
How we voted in the Game Critics Awards
The Game Critics Awards is a group of a few dozen leading game publications that votes each year on the best games at the...
The new console war pits Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony in an Apple arena
In response to Apple's surging App Store games, Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony have added tablet platforms to their gaming consoles in ways that say a lot about their corporate philosophies. But do their value-added propositions actually add any value?