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, Microsoft unveiled the Xbox One, the company’s next-gen console and one-stop living room entertainment device, Ex-EA chief John Riccitiello urges console makers to consider consumer wants before shipping products, and Yahoo continues its acquisition madness by picking up the game company PlayScale.
You’ll also find a review of Resident Evil: Revelations as well as previews for Batman: Arkham Origins, Dying Light, and Civilization V’s Brave New World.
Xbox One
- The DeanBeat: Microsoft and Sony should escape binary thinking
- GamesBeat’s complete coverage for Microsoft’s Xbox One announcement
- Microsoft making $1B bet on Xbox One games, says bigwig Phil Harrison
- Xbox One vs. PlayStation 4: A battle for next-gen supremacy
- Microsoft shows behind-the-scenes design of its Xbox One game controller
- Xbox One: Microsoft’s boldest attempt to unify its services is a game console
News
- DmC: Devil May Cry developer working on beat-em-up for iOS and Android
- Craziest special edition ever? $190K Grid 2 bundle comes with … a car
- PSA: Xbox Live was not hacked today
- Super Stardust HD developer working on spiritual successor for PlayStation 4
- This is what a $150 Grand Theft Auto V: Collector’s Edition looks like
- Nintendo issues another patch for Wii U
- Skullgirls getting arcade port in Japan
- U.S. version of Animal Crossing: New Leaf has Twitter and Tumblr support
- Ex-EA chief John Riccitiello pushes console makers to get four things right in this generation
- Call in sick: Plants vs. Zombies Adventures is out now
- Nintendo promises to ‘discuss’ new Smash Bros., 3D Mario, and Mario Kart before E3
- Defiance developer cuts staff; MMO Rift unaffected
- EA appoints New York Times digital-product expert to its board
- Amazon taking Madden NFL 25: Annivesary Edition preorders — bundled with NFL Sunday Ticket
Mobile news
- Hooked Media turns in an entirely new take on app recommendation — one that Apple can’t kill
- Zynga unleashes Gauntlet-like Battlestone on iOS
- G.I. Joe: Battleground looks to capture the cartoon in a modern mobile game
- DeNA developing Dungeons & Dragons: Arena of War for mobile based on ‘D&D Next’
- Top Eleven developer trumpets the social soccer game’s impressive growth
- Jawfish launches real-time multiplayer game tournaments on mobile devices
- Happy Cloud announces $4.25M funding round and new chief executive
- WildTangent launches mobile games on Asus tablets
- DeNA to publish Peter Molyneux’s Godus mobile game
Acquisitions incorporated
Tech news
- Who needs an Xbox One? Nvidia shows off new speedy graphics card
- Big Fish Games takes its cloud-gaming service to all four major screens
- HP launches a 20-inch all-in-one that doubles as a tabletop computer
Trailer hoedown
Previews
- Warner’s Dying Light will make you a zombie hunter by day, a terrified victim by night (preview)
- Batman: Arkham Origins hits the repeat button hard (preview)
- Civilization V’s Brave New World expansion feels like a culture club (hands-on preview)
Reviews
Interviews
- Activision’s Eric Hirshberg bets that 40M Call of Duty fans will follow him to Xbox One (interview)
- Dying Light developer explains how to roam an open world full of hungry zombies (interview)
- How Activision plans to beat Disney with the marketing of Skylanders: Swap Force (interview)
- Batman: Arkham Origins’ senior producer on how — and when — to move the needle (interview)
- How Smooth McGroove quit his day job to record a capella versions of classic gaming tunes (interview)
Pieces of flair
- Beating down a fighting-game master with Divekick’s two-button gameplay
- Ceiling Kinect and Call of Duty dogs: The top Xbox One GIFs and memes (so far)
- GamesBeat’s Favorite Skyrim Mods #9: Dwemer Mechanical Mounts & Followers
- ROUNDTABLE’D! Game characters red-ring the Xbox One!
- The top 6 MMOs you should be playing this year
- EA’s ulterior motive behind killing the Online Pass
- Consoles that won’t die: The Sega Dreamcast