Xyologic unveils search engine to improve mobile app discovery on Android

Xyologic is unveiling an Android mobile app search engine -- the first of its kind to be designed for finding games.

Flurry Personas uses analytics to target apps at consumers

Flurry is launching its new service to help app creators build more relevant features, target ad campaigns, and earn more advertising revenue.

Twin Engine Labs launches Pentakill app to not suck at League of Legends

What do you do if you’re playing League of Legends, the free real-time strategy game with over 100 champions that gamers must employ to conquer their opponents, and you can’t keep track of each hero’s detailed strengths and weaknesses?

If …

People still don’t understand where OUYA fits in

The phrase "OUYA launch game" kinda weirds me out. That is like calling Guild Wars II a launch game for the PC I'm building right now. A lot of casual observers and even veteran journalists still don't seem to understand what

Bitmob Giveaway: We just want to say…thanks!

[Update: We have selected our winners! See comments below. Thanks to everyone for entering.]

We've been giving out a lot of prizes lately, trying to promote our social networks for the soon-to-be-permanent home of Bitmob: GamesBeat. (What social networks, …

Shooting bots helped my students think

It made them think about how to achieve their goal of winning the game, but I digress.

I'm an elementary school teacher and a gamer. My students know I'm a gamer because I drop references in class all the time. …

Working on generations of game consoles: a developer’s perspective

When a Reddit user asked game makers to describe what working with each major console is like, Cory Bloyd chimed in to share his interesting experiences.

The film 300, re-created inside Skyrim

300 was a film famous for stylized battles. Skyrim is a game that has plenty of fighting, but it would probably be safer to call its battles slow, clunky, and repetitive. Maybe the nicer word for it would be "methodical." So I'm a …

Bing Rewards earns you Microsoft Points, but not when you use it on an Xbox 360

How many people actually use Bing, anyway?

Games, governments, and guarantees: Where does public funding fit in the industry?

Public funding is a tricky issue for game developers. We live in a world where conservative media still view video games as murder-trainers for impressionable youth. Understandably, this means politicians aren’t always leaping in to promise they’ll support the local …

Nintendo wins Wii patent lawsuit

Nintendo won a patent-infringement lawsuit involving the Wii today when a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit in the game company’s favor.

U.S. District Court Judge David Cercone in Pittsburgh granted a summary judgment in Nintendo’s favor and ruled that there …

Despite Star Wars slowdown, analysts aren’t in despair over EA’s performance

Electronic Arts‘ flagship online game, Star Wars: The Old Republic, isn’t doing so well, but the big video game publisher is so well diversified that the impact on the company’s bottom line isn’t as bad as it could have been, …

For Ernest Cline, author of Ready Player One, success is measured in DeLoreans and geeked-out fans

Ernest Cline is going where no geek has gone before with his latest book tour and contest that features a real DeLorean as the prize.

Music and videos coming to Ouya via Vevo

We haven't heard much about the non-gaming functionality of the Ouya. Today we learned that the music video-streaming app Vevo will be available on the android-based console.

Spy vs Spy game creator tells the story of a rerelease nearly 30 years in the making

Richard Spitalny of First Star Software discusses the iOS remake of his classic Spy vs Spy and the changes he's seen over 30 years in video game development.

Oculus launches Kickstarter campaign for virtual reality gaming headset

A new stereoscopic, 3D headset could soon make virtual reality in video games a, well, reality.