The DeanBeat: Will your game company survive the zombie apocalypse?
The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) video game trade show in Los Angeles was full of glitzy press conferences (like Ubisoft’s, pictured above). So many...
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.
Indie studio Thatgamecompany raises $5.5M to create magical games for wider audiences
The journey of indie game developer Thatgamecompany is about to get a lot more interesting. The maker of Journey, a big hit and highly...
Trash talk from Sony game executive: Our competitors are losing the plot (interview)
The battle of the press conferences at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) is over. Now it's time for Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo to interpret the competing events and declare victory. The latest to do so is Sony's head of digital games, Jack Buser. Buser says that while Sony showed some great new content, rivals lost the plot.
“Games are not good enough for adults,” says Journey designer Jenova Chen
Journey director and Thatgamecompany co-founder Jenova Chen thinks that most games lack the mature themes and depth required to appeal to adults.
Journey designer: PlayStation Network players “more likely to be interested in artistic games” than 360 or Wii
Journey lead designer Jenova Chen told GamesBeat why he prefers working with Sony. It has everything to do with the audience that he wishes to reach with his work.
GamesBeat Weekly Roundup
Here are some of the stories that ran on GamesBeat this week. We’re running more articles exclusively in the GamesBeat section of VentureBeat, particularly...
Journey team loses one of its co-founders
Kellee Santiago, co-founder of Journey developer Thatgamecompany, has decided to leave the Santa Monica, Calif.-based game studio that she started with Jenova Chen, according...
The new iPad is for gaming
The new iPad, third generation, iPad 3, whatever you call it, is a serious gaming machine. For some games, it even rivals a console...
How Thatgamecompany designed its new game, Journey
Kellee Santiago is co-founder and president of Thatgamecompany, the Santa Monica, Calif.-based game studio she started with Jenova Chen. After three years of work,...