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CastleStorm offers fun, sheep-driven destruction and distracting strategy...
Nobody ever asked Zen Studios to stop making games that star silver balls. The developer of the successful Zen Pinball and Pinball FX titles, which are available on pretty much every device capable of...
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Tales from E3: The industry shares its favorite stories
This year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo trade show (E3) starts in Los Angeles tomorrow. The event has existed in one form or another since 1995, and last year, almost 46,000 journalists and...
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King announces Pet Rescue Saga mobile so you can save kittens anywhere
“Bite-sized game” developer King is announcing the mobile release of its popular Facebook game Pet Rescue Saga today. The casual title, which is a puzzle game where players clear blocks to save...
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Retro at E3: The Video Game History Museum (gallery)
See all of our E3 coverage here. The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) trade show, which took place in Los Angeles this week, is not just about unveiling gaming’s newest and biggest releases. It’s...
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9 confusing photos from E3 2013 (gallery)
Check out all of our E3 coverage here. I wasn’t lucky enough to attend the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles last week, so while everyone else was off networking, playing games, and...
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The real (and imaginary) vehicles of E3 2013 (gallery)
Check out all of our E3 2013 coverage here. I wasn’t at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) trade show last week, but in talking to my friends and colleagues who were there, their No. 1 complaint...
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E3 2013: The year of the open world
Check out all of our E3 2013 coverage here. Last year, the gaming community declared that 2012′s Electronic Entertainment Expo trade show (E3) ushered in “the year of the bow.” We just finished up...
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Read+Watch+Listen: Bonus material for The Last of Us fans
This article may contain spoilers for The Last of Us. You spent years waiting for developers to hurry up and release a big game. You bought it, took it home, and played through it in a couple of days....
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Breach & Clear is ambitious, strategic, and shallow (review)
Oct. 29-30, 2013 Redwood City, CA Early Bird Tickets on Sale Breach & Clear, a mobile turn-based tactical game from developer Mighty Rabbit out today for iOS devices, promised to bring the depth...
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Bundle Dragon brings the pay-what-you-want model to everyone
If you bought Radiohead’s 2007 album In Rainbows or have ever snapped up one of the various game, music, or e-book packages over at Humble Bundle, you’ve participated in the pay-what-you-want sales...
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Players fight 1.4 million battles a day in mobile MMO Modern War (infographic)
GreePeople like to pretend to kill each other in video games? Who knew?In January, mobile game developer Gree’s free-to-play iOS and Android title Modern War introduced “live events” in which players...
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The Bureau: XCOM Declassified is the series’ hyperactive but charming younger...
2K GamesHero William Carter faces an elite enemy.Remember in 2010 when publisher 2K Games announced its contribution to the traditionally strategy-focused XCOM franchise? And that it was a first-person...
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Ubisoft releases more details on first mobile Trials game
UbisoftTrials Frontier is the racing franchise's first mobile installment.If you’ve ever sat on the bus wishing that you could bring your bitter rivalries with your friends with you wherever you go,...
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Autodance 2014 encourages players to Just Dance with themselves
UbisoftAutodance 2014 leaves the choreography up to players ... and then lets them plaster it all over the Internet.Look, we’re all big on freedom. And sometimes, you don’t want some stupid video game...
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Why six triple-A developers gave it all up to make spooky indie game Betrayer
Blackpowder GamesBetrayer is a first-person, exploration-focused game with supernatural elements.While wandering through a nightmarish black-and-white world, I follow a path through the woods to an...
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Here’s a handy timeline of The Walking Dead: 400 Days
Telltale GamesThe Walking Dead: 400 Days downloadable expansion. Oct. 29-30, 2013 Redwood City, CA Tickets On Sale Now Note: This post contains spoilers for The Walking Dead: 400 Days. Developer...
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Why gamers risk big bucks on special editions for new franchises
UbisoftThe U.S. Limited Edition for Watch Dogs. Dec. 4 - 5, 2013 Redwood City, CA Tickets on Sale Now Whatever you call them — special, limited, elite, premium — the “game that comes with other stuff”...
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Extra Life 2013: Play games, heal kids, join Team GamesBeat
Extra LifeThis year's Extra Life gaming marathon for charity is November 2. Dec. 4 - 5, 2013 Redwood City, CA Tickets on Sale Now If you have an entire Saturday free and want to do something fun — and...
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The Wolf Among Us Episode One: Faith is an impressive start to Telltale’s...
Telltale GamesIn Fables' world, it makes perfect sense to have a winged monkey from Oz as a research assistant. Dec. 4 - 5, 2013 Redwood City, CA Tickets on Sale Now Season 1 of developer Telltale...
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Read+Watch+Listen: Bonus material for Grand Theft Auto V fans
Dec. 4 - 5, 2013 Redwood City, CA Tickets on Sale Now This article may contain spoilers for Grand Theft Auto V. You spent years waiting for developers to hurry up and release a big game. You buy it,...
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They grow up so fast: What this console generation’s characters have learned
Danny Myers Dec. 4 - 5, 2013 Redwood City, CA Tickets on Sale Now This is part of our ongoing series about games and trends of one of the most longest-lived eras in gaming’s history — the Xbox...
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A people’s history of the Xbox 360/PlayStation 3/Wii console generation
Quickmeme Dec. 4 - 5, 2013 Redwood City, CA Tickets on Sale Now This is part of our ongoing series about games and trends of one of the most longest-lived eras in gaming’s history — the Xbox...
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Read+Watch+Listen: Bonus material for Assassin’s Creed IV fans
Dec. 4 - 5, 2013 Redwood City, CA Tickets on Sale Now This article may contain spoilers for Assassin’s Creed IV. You spent years waiting for developers to hurry up and release a big game. You buy it,...
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The GamesBeat staff — and you — pick which games should sit this new console...
SonySpoilers.Now that the Wii U, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One are all finally out, developers have some decisions to make when they think about how to take advantage of the new hardware. Do they create...
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Angry Birds Go! is a decent-enough kart racer with some annoying drivers...
GamesBeatCheck out our Reviews Vault for past game reviews. Developer Rovio’s Angry Birds franchise is branching out from wholesale pig murder with Angry Birds Go!, a free-to-play go-kart racer out...
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2013 in review: A whole bunch of video game numbers
Rockstar Games"Oh, you know, no big deal. Just smashing every sales record. *yawn*"Check here for more from GamesBeat’s 12 Days of the Best and Worst of 2013. No year-end retrospective would be...
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Best of 2013: 10 of the weirdest, coolest, and most random screenshots of the...
Irrational GamesCheck here for more from GamesBeat’s 12 Days of the Best and Worst of 2013. We love screenshots here at GamesBeat, and not just because they break up our text to give our readers’ poor...
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The Wolf Among Us Episode 2: Smoke and Mirrors has a little more...
Above: In this scene, you can choose to be Bad Cop or Slightly Less Bad Cop.Image Credit: Telltale GamesCheck out our Reviews Vault for past game reviews. It’s been four months since Faith, the first...
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The best (and worst) of some recent Flappy Bird knockoffs
Above: I'd love to help you out, Flappy Crow, but I can't tell which speck you are.Image Credit: iTunesEver since Flappy Bird creator Dong Nguyen pulled his hit game Flappy Bird from both the Apple and...
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Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy provides an epic and emotional series...
Above: Layton and his associates travel the world on the airship Bostonius.Image Credit: NintendoCheck out our Reviews Vault for past game reviews. I may have a problem. Even though I’ve finished the...
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