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.
Square Enix’s Mike Fischer says Activision was “crazy” to abandon True Crime: Hong Kong (interview)
GamesBeat's Dean Takahashi sits down with Mike Fischer, head of North American operations for Square Enix, who says that Activision was crazy to let True Crime: Hong Kong go. Square Enix is publishing that game as Sleeping Dogs
Bringing back Tomb Raider: Our need to fill the old archeologist’s shoes
Indiana Jones inspired both Lara Croft and Nathan Drake, and with the Tomb Raider reboot around the corner, these adventurers are here to stay.
Tomb Raider release date pushed back to Q1 2013
Crystal Dynamics, a subsidiary of publisher Square Enix, says it wants to ensure that it can "fully deliver the very highest quality game."
Square Enix reports fiscal year profit thanks to a couple of big hits
Square Enix reported a profit for its fiscal year that ended March 31 thanks to sales of its Final Fantasy XIII-2 and Deus Ex: Human Revolution titles.
Walmart.com strikes again: more mind-boggling game descriptions
More weird copy writing from Walmart.com. Unlike those last ones, however, these are real.
10 of the most anticipated video games of 2012
Looking back, I think you’d be hard-pressed to find someone who doesn’t agree that 2011 was a great year for video games. It was...
The best games of E3 2011
We saw lots of video games at the E3 trade show in Los Angeles last week. Some of them were pretty awesome. The trip...
This year’s top surprises at E3
With the video game industry’s largest trade show over, it’s time to wrap up some of the highlights. We’ll start with the biggest surprises...
Tomb Raider’s reboot looks like a winner (video)
At 21, Lara Croft is far more appealing as a heroine than in her older years of over-confidence and swagger. The gun-toting adventurer of...