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.
This week, web comic Penny Arcade launched a Kickstarter to go completely ad-free, the Android-based Ouya console caused quite a stir, and Angry Birds is coming to home consoles at a higher price than the current mobile versions.
We also sport a review for NCAA Football 13 and a preview for the upcoming Tomb Raider game.
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Oh, and we had this little conference: GamesBeat 2012.
GamesBeat:
The DeanBeat: 10 takeaways about game investments from GamesBeat 2012
Warner Bros. making web video series on Hawken
NCAA Football 13 is a fun experience that’s still too raw to turn pro (review)
Official trailer for the live-action film series Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn
BioWare brings back Britannia with Ultima Forever: Quest for the Avatar
Nintendo sells more than 5 million 3DS consoles in the U.S.
Minecraft on Xbox 360 update: new character skins, new tools, and safer TNT
GamesBeat 2012 roundup: The Crossover Era, Ouya, the iPad as this generation’s console
Epic: Fortnite is the first Unreal Engine 4 game (and a PC exclusive)
Tomb Raider reboot: Are you playing or watching Lara Croft? (preview)
If your kids like Pokémon, they’ll go nuts for Nukotoys (with video)
Ouya gaming console smashes Kickstarter record in one day
Mobile industry bigwigs Tapjoy and Kontagent form partnership (exclusive)
Source Filmmaker now available for free in open beta
CBS Films details Deus Ex: Human Revolution adaptation
Penny Arcade starts a Kickstarter to go ad-free
Nintendo will finally be able to rescue data from stolen systems…if you have a police report
Cloud gaming finally coming to South Korea (exclusive)
10 Internet comments about games that actually make us laugh
5th Planet taps into your inner Gambit in Legacy of Heroes (exclusive)
New gaming crowdfunding site Gamesplanet Lab vets projects for quality
Halo 4 dev: “Loadout system looks more like Gradius” than Call of Duty, no public beta
Beatles legend Paul McCartney is working on music for former Halo dev Bungie
GamesBeat 2012
The panoramic view of GamesBeat 2012
Mobile VP for Activision reveals motivation behind Flurry partnership
Electronic Arts envisions a future free of platform shackles
Design panel divulges how mobile apps try to hack your brain
The People’s Box: Ouya launches Kickstarter for sub-$100 console
The road ahead in gaming: Welcome to the Crossover Era
Seamus Blackley marries “geriatric” and young game designers to build arcade mobile games
Even Will Wright’s PowerPoint slides are fascinating
Raptr and Kiip mine game rewards for new business models
Social gaming startup Akamon claims top prize in our ‘Who’s Got Game’ competition
Design guru Yves Béhar dishes on the Ouya console (video interview)
Rising costs of marketing iPhone games scares developers
Ouya designer Yves Béhar’s dream: Reboot the console world (exclusive)
Kickstarter gives game developers control over their destinies
Electronic Arts envisions a future free of platform shackles
Mobile industry bigwigs Tapjoy and Kontagent form partnership (exclusive)
Ouya founder: ‘We never anticipated that it would blow up like this.’ (exclusive interview)
Indie devs: Quality content trumps following trends, free-to-play ‘is kind of a slum’
Legendary game exec Bing Gordon on epic poems, the golden age of gaming, and Xbox as a platform
Game pioneer Will Wright wants to make games ‘as personal as our dreams’
Gaming investors say the iPad will be this generation’s console
Zynga’s Mark Pincus says focus more on content, less on investing in platforms
Dean Takahashi’s opening comments for GamesBeat 2012
VentureBeat:
Angry Birds creator’s new game, Amazing Alex, is out now
Angry Birds console versions cost at least 10x the mobile equivalents
Mobile VP for Activision reveals motivation behind Flurry partnership
Electronic Arts envisions a future free of platform shackles
Xbox boss: Halo 4 will work with Surface tablet
Design panel divulges how mobile apps try to hack your brain
The People’s Box: Ouya launches Kickstarter for sub-$100 console
Indie game developers weigh in on Valve’s Steam Greenlight
Portalarium raises $7M for Facebook and mobile role-playing games (exclusive)
Zynga’s 1.8 trillion minutes and other cool facts about the game industry
Betable’s potential jackpot: Bringing real gambling to social casino games
June retail video game sales expected to be a dud
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