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.
This week, EA is reportedly working with Fox on a Battlefield: Bad Company TV series, Valve wants gamers to help playstest unreleased products, Kixeye opens up about last week’s racism allegations, and OnLive’s assets sold for a mere $4.8 million.
You’ll also find reviews for Dishonored, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, Forza Horizon, and Nights: Into Dreams HD.
News:
- The DeanBeat: The pace of disruption from physical to digital gaming
- Xbox Live tells us who won the vice presidential debate
- Temple Run developer has figured out how to make money on Android
- Rocket-powered robots to shoot other robots in Hawken beta this month
- Block by block: How Roblox is building one of gaming’s biggest platforms
- Linden Lab grabs its second life with creativity games
- How big is League of Legends? 12M daily users play for 1B hours each month and 75 die every second (infographic)
- September NPD: Borderlands 2 nearly tops best-seller list as overall sales take another dive
- Sony refreshes interface for its entertainment network
- Amazon gets Assassin’s Creed III Encyclopedia Edition for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360
- Streaming tech company T5 claims Sony’s Gaikai infringes on its patents
- The first Borderlands 2 expansion is filled with booty — date and price announced
- Both ToeJam & Earl games headed to PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade in November
- Valve wants your help playtesting unreleased games and hardware prototypes
- ‘Fight Club’ director producing Halo 4 launch trailer
- Wing Commander creator Chris Roberts returns to gaming with Star Citizen online game universe
- With nine brains, this hydra-like Tilera chip is a multitasking wizard
- OnLive’s assets were sold for only $4.8 million
- Three-day badges are sold out for the PAX East gaming convention
- Windows 8 now defaults to real currency, but Xbox 360 still uses Microsoft Points
- The exodus continues: Zynga Poker general manager quits
- D&D artist casts ‘resurrect’ spell on old art, with help from Kickstarter
- Fanhood enters the sports-betting game fray on Facebook (exclusive)
- Updated: Developer Backbone Entertainment lays off workers
- Rovio: Star Wars Angry Birds ‘is the best Angry Birds we’ve ever done’
- EA reportedly working with Fox to develop Battlefield: Bad Company TV series
- 2012 game investments: Number of deals is up, but average raised per startup is dropping
- Sony sues Kevin Butler actor (update: Sony comments)
Mobile News:
- 23 percent of app gamers play only on mobile devices
- Heyzap launches a ‘play with friends’ feature for multiplayer mobile games
- He-Man game for iOS in the works
- Stunning mobile game Contre Jour goes multitouch in HTML5 with Microsoft’s help
- Moga mobile game controller to debut in 7,000 stores (video)
- AOL remakes Games.com for social-mobile era
- Sega brings Crazy Taxi to iOS
Reviews:
- The open road meets dubstep-laced stereotypes in Forza Horizon (review)
- Threeview: A critic, an analyst, and an academic review Resident Evil 6
- PlayStation 3 Super Slim isn’t worth the upgrade (review)
- Naughty Bear: Panic in Paradise is a dead bear’s party that’s not much fun
- Threeview: A critic, an analyst, and an academic review Bad Piggies
- Nights into Dreams HD is too brutally difficult to overcome nostalgia (review)
- XCOM: Enemy Unknown is peerless in modern game design (review)
- Dishonored lets you take sweet, sweet revenge (review)
Previews:
- Vehicles are the real stars in the chaotic world of team-shooter Ravaged (hands-on preview)
- EA invests big in Medal of Honor: Warfighter multiplayer combat (hands-on preview)
- Far Cry 3 balances an unforgettable narrative with an open world (hands-on preview)
Interviews:
- A successor to Nintendo Power magazine has less than 8 hours left to raise $5k on Kickstarter (interview) (update)
- Medal of Honor: Warfighter focuses on buddies and international warriors to boost multiplayer audience (interview)
- Gaming luminary Trip Hawkins talks about a $400 mouse, his new gig, and gestural controls (interview)
- Kixeye CEO says his company is aggressive, but not racist (exclusive interview)
- Dead or Alive 5 director discusses Hollywood, eSports, and tips for beginners (interview)
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Pieces of Flair:
- The weird and bizarre side of 25 years of Street Fighter
- Game industry pros confess their piles of shame
- Cool concept art for Chris Roberts’ Star Citizen online game (art gallery)
- Star Citizen features stunning sci-fi visuals (screenshot gallery)
- Borderlands 2′s Mechromancer: A girlfriend plays ‘girlfriend mode,’ boyfriend plays ‘boyfriend mode’
- The best of Skyrim mods #3: Super Skyrim Bros.
- Nonlethal and undetected: 10 essential tips & tricks to mastering Dishonored
- GamesBeat’s massive Street Fighter tournament: Decide who moves on from Division 1
- Gaming art for your Twitter header (Part 7: Consoles)
- Gaming art for your Twitter header (Part 6: Retro arcade)
- Gaming art for your Twitter header (Part 5: Mobile)
