Kabam’s new $50M fund helps Japanese mobile games head West

Kabam will take a piece of revenue in exchange for localizing, marketing, and distributing Japanese games in U.S. and Europe.

The DeanBeat: Mobile monetization is the ‘biggest Achilles’ heel’ issue in the game industry

Mobile monetization is separating the industry into the haves and have-nots.

Ben Cousins wants to prove mobile first-person shooters aren’t a pipe dream (interview)

Ben Cousins has made games like Electronic Arts' Battlefield series. Now he is bringing shooter games to mobile devices.

Flutter is a kinder, gentler Pokémon with real-world butterflies (preview)

Attract, feed, and raise various butterfly species in Runaway Play's Flutter.

Investors weigh in on falling game-startup valuations

Developer Zynga's collapse has taken its toll on game-company valuations. The topic came up at the recent investor panel at the YetiZen game accelerator.

GamesBeat weekly roundup: Halo 4, Grand Theft Auto V reveal, THQ for sale

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.

Is Gree really spending money on user acquisition like there’s no tomorrow? (interview)

Sho Masuda is the man in charge of spending at Japan's Gree, which is trying to break into the U.S. mobile games market.

GamesBeat weekly roundup: Disney buys LucasArts/Lucasfilm, Halo 4 reviewed, and Valve dislikes Windows 8

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.