Benchmark’s Mitch Lasky: Game publishers will evolve or die (interview)
What does one of the world's most successful and active game investors think of the future of the medium?
Indie devs: Quality content trumps following trends, free-to-play ‘is kind of a slum’
Indie devs trumpet the importance of quality content, ridicule free-to-play gaming.
10 Internet comments about games that actually make us laugh
Most Internet comments are authored by mean 12-year-olds who hate minorities, women, and dogs. We've found a few comments that are actually kind of funny but are probably still written by those same little devils.
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.
Study: Westerners like cloud gaming despite not knowing what it is
Once someone explained the possible value to them, however, 52 percent of U.S. digital gamers said they were “very or somewhat interested” in trying out a cloud service, with Australians only slightly less favorable at 49 percent.
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.
Updated: Surprise, surprise: Sony drops OnLive support for streaming media player after purchasing Gaikai
[Update: We’ve updated this story to be more precise. It is still confusing, but we’ve added the facts as we know them] Sony has...
How Sony could disrupt its console rivals — and itself — with its Gaikai acquisition
The disruptive effect of Sony’s $380 million acquisition of Gaikai could send reverberations throughout the video game industry. As such, the deal will give...