GamesBeat’s gigantic E3 2012 roundup
We've corralled the entirety of our E3 2012 coverage from the showfloors, meeting rooms, conference halls, and beyond. If you missed out -- or need a refresher -- on GamesBeat's E3 coverage, take a look here!
Portal creator Kim Swift talks about indie gaming and Quantum Conundrum (interview)
Portal creator Kim Swift wants the world to be full of physics-based puzzl games.
The past, present, and future of video games at the DIY-focused Maker Faire 2012
Maker Faire is a do-it-yourself cultural celebration. In this year's fair, video games had a small, but remarkable presence that provided some insight into the history of the medium.
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.
(Updated with new pictures) Student reveals the origins of his real-life Portal turret
Penn State University student Kevin Swanson talks to GamesBeat about his real-life Portal turret and reveals the role his Portal-obsessed professor had in its origin.
Updated with pictures of the machine's development.
3 of gaming’s most elaborate inside jokes
While developers referencing other companies' games is nothing new, a few game makers have gone all-out with their nods to other titles.
The four lessons other developers can learn from the Valve employee handbook
Valve recently released its Handbook for New Employees which does a great job of explaining the culture at the incredibly successful development studio. We've taken the most valuable lessons from the guide and collected them here for all other game developers to learn from.
Portal’s test chambers created to scale in Minecraft (video)
In the wake of yesterday’s report on the Minecraft Game of Thrones recreation, it’s only fitting that today we find this stunning one-to-one scale...
The 6 best game endings of all-time (and how BioWare would ruin them)
Video game endings tend to feel a lot like an afterthought. Whereas a bad movie only ever consumes two hours of your life, games...
Technically disastrous Skyrim is Bethesda’s “most solid release” yet
Bethesda Game Studios’ Todd Howard has finally broken his three-month-long silence regarding The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim’s notorious technical issues. “Statistically, it is not...