The DeanBeat: Building a better GamesBeat
For almost four years, we’ve been building out GamesBeat as VentureBeat’s game channel. We have held three annual GamesBeat conferences where the movers and...
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim ships 7M copies, actual sales unclear
Bethesda Softworks, publisher of last week’s long-awaited The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, has announced that its latest game has shipped seven million copies globally...
Another Skyrim patch coming, Bethesda PR tells frustrated player to “calm down”
If you’re one of the millions of players who purchased Skyrim in the past week, upon loading up the game for the first time...
Tips and tricks: How to get ahead in Skyrim
Update: For more Skyrim tips, tricks, and exploits, including how to max out your Mage skills and get houses for free, check out our...
Nvidia says PC gaming in midst of revival
PC gaming is experiencing the beginning of a multi-year growth cycle as gamers migrate to the PC, Nvidia chief executive Jen-Hsun Huang said today...
Review: Skyrim is far greater than the sum of its parts
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is the latest blockbuster hopeful from developer/publisher Bethesda Softworks. Following in the footsteps of the studio’s previous award-winning open-world...
Dark Souls is the loneliest, most brutal game this year. And you’ll love it
It is dark. I have spent the last two hours stumbling and falling down a seemingly endless series of wooden platforms, facing off against...
LulzSec: “You’re welcome!” for hacking Bethesda, not stealing anything
Members of hacker group LulzSec, which was recently able to break into Sony’s network and steal information about 1 million users, said it has...
VentureBeat’s photo gallery captures the noise of E3 2011 (part 1)
The only thing bad about an E3 photo gallery is that you can’t hear the sounds. E3, the video game industry’s trade show, is...
Bethesda reinvents its Prey shooter series with elements of popular Oblivion, Fallout games
If a game isn’t broken, don’t try and fix it. In fact, make the rest of your games follow that same formula. That’s a...