The year of the deal? Game industry already has more than $5B in mergers and acquisitions in 2014
Blockbuster deals around the world have '14 on pace to demolish 2013's record year for acquisitions in the game market.
Open-source laptop Novena is a 'labor of love' from the first Xbox hacker
You can hack away all you want at this open-source hardware.
Microsoft makes the Xbox One TV experience better — even as its new boss talks of focusing on games
Microsoft continues its focus on making the Xbox One the ultimate media center with new TV features for SmartGlass.
The mobile web is still losing out to native apps, by more than 6 to 1
Mobile ad spending isn't tracking well with mobile time spent.
Microsoft’s new Xbox boss will put gamers first (interview)
Microsoft will make gaming a "first-class citizen" in everything it does with new leadership team.
With Boom Beach, Supercell guns for a third smash hit — and it’s already at No. 2
In less than a month, the mobile title has shot to No. 2 on the iTunes free-apps charts.
Threes vs. 2048: When rip-offs do better than the original game
The makers of Threes hit back with a post describing how they feel about competitors cloning their title.
Valve’s virtual-reality mastermind joins Facebook’s Oculus VR
Abrash will take the role of chief scientist at Oculus, and he plans to spend the rest of his career working on virtual reality.
The DeanBeat: The questions to ask about the current state of games
Here's the speech I made at the Game Developers Conference.
Here’s how Pixar animated Monsters University (behind-the-scenes)
With high-end graphics chips, Pixar can animate characters and scenes in real time.