GamesBeat Weekly Roundup
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.
Intel Video Superstars competition calls for gaming filmmakers
Intel's annual Video Superstars competition wants machinima and game film directors to submit their best work for a chance at a $5,000 dream studio.
Microsoft says it has sold 67M Xbox 360s, 19M Kinects, and generated $56B in game revenues
Microsoft said today that it has generated more than $56 billion at retail from its game business, and it has sold 67 million Xbox...
The Nordic Games Program matters to everyone
The Nordic Game Project is incredibly important to gamers around the world. Without it, games like Limbo, Ilomilo, and Amnesia might not exist.
Mad Riders is beautiful but flawed (review)
Mad Riders really wants to be a trendy arcade ATV racing game but can't balance its level design with its controls.
Twilight Zone table to rise again in Pinball Arcade with the help of crowdfunding
FarSight Studios is conducting a Kickstarter to fund the licensing of the Twilight Zone machine for its Pinball Arcade collection of tables. Learn how this could also lead to the Star Trek: The Next Generation table making its way to the game.
GamesBeat Weekly Roundup
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 DeanBeat: Can Microsoft’s Kinect gain cred from hardcore gamers?
Microsoft’s Kinect has always held out tantalizing promises. As a user interface, it brings computing devices to the edge of greatness but falls just...
Microsoft’s Kudo Tsunoda on broadening Kinect games to hardcore fans (interview)
Kudo Tsunoda says that more hardcore gaming experiences are coming to Microsoft's Kinect motion-sensing system this year.
6 reasons E3 might suck this year
This year's E3 is looking more notable for what we won't be seeing.