Kate Edwards takes over the IGDA in a time of turmoil for games (interview)
The new International Game Developers Association leader believes that fairness to women is a vital issue in the game business.
Heavy Gear Assault turns mech pilots into e-sports stars (preview)
MekTek Studios resurrects a long-dormant franchise with the help of Unreal Engine 4 and e-sports.
John Riccitiello’s legacy: EA survives, but its hit points are dangerously low
It's easy to take shots at Riccitiello's record, but his successes and failures were complex.
EA’s Lucy Bradshaw acknowledges SimCity ‘stumbled out of the gate with our service’ (interview)
But she says the game servers can now meet demand and EA has learned valuable lessons.
Homosexuality in Star Wars: The Old Republic is separate but unequal
BioWare's Star Wars MMO will allow same-gender romances on a single planet.
The biggest gaming surprises of 2012
It doesn't matter how closely you follow the news or how often you refresh your browser; some companies can still manage to catch the gaming public completely unaware. Here are some of our picks for the biggest surprises of 2012.
GamesBeat weekly roundup: Halo 4, Grand Theft Auto V reveal, THQ for sale
If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best video game stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.
Star Wars: The Old Republic set for free-to-play debut
Get to level 50 without paying a single cent? Yes, please. Bioware, the developer behind Star Wars: The Old Republic, has just posted a...
Jedi, fedoras, and carpal tunnel: A history of LucasArts
What if LucasArts never existed? What if the irascible filmmaker, beloved (and despised) the world over for his invaluable contributions to the pop-culture lexicon, had stuck to making space operas and juvenile fantasies about archeologists in fedora hats? What if George Lucas never entered the arena of gaming 30 years ago?
Bouyed by sports games, EA beat analysts’ estimates for second fiscal quarter
One of the bellwether companies for the video game business reports its earnings for the third quarter.