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...
Sony buys Gaikai game streaming service for $380M
Sony announced tonight that it will acquire the streaming video-game service Gaikai for $380 million. The deal officially closed on June 30, and Sony...
OnLive shows up in a Sony Internet Blu-ray player (exclusive)
OnLive hasn’t announced any deals yet to get its cloud gaming service into Sony products. But we’ve spotted a very interesting reference to OnLive...
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?