BlueStacks steps into gaming with Gamepop — a Netflix for mobile games

Watch out, Ouya, a new challenger has entered the ring to bring mobile games to TV screens.

The DeanBeat: Game acquisitions rise 23 percent to $3.4B in 2012

The game industry set a new record for the money spent on acquisitions, but the number of deals dropped.

MoMinis raises $6M for mega game portal on Android

Israeli mobile-game company MoMinis has raised $6 million in a second round of funding from Gemini Israel Ventures.

GamesBeat weekly roundup: Wii U, Call of Duty: Black Ops II, Xbox Live turns 10

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.

Glu Mobile lays off employees at two offices, closes a third

The mobile developer will shutter its Sao Paulo office and cut staff from its Washington-state-based and San Francisco-based studios.

PlayHaven rounds up $8 million to finance international expansion

The monetization firm will use this latest investment to further build its developer tools and to expand internationally.

Tapjoy runs into new drama over its app download incentives

Tapjoy could be in hot water with Apple again, but first it's going to war with Michael Arrington.

EA readies oodles of mobile games for summer gamers

EA's Summer Showcase was filled with mobile games from publishers Chillingo and PopCap, among others.

Pocket Gems launches All Talk voice-based mobile game

With hundreds of thousands of mobile games available on smartphones, innovating isn’t that easy. But Pocket Gems hopes to stand out from the crowd with a unique voice-based game that it is unveiling today.

The new game, All Talk, is …

Go huntin’ for deer with your smartphone

Glu Mobile has acquired the Deer Hunter brand from Atari. This means that, sometime soon, you’ll be able to hunt deer on just about any mobile device.

Glu has taken an exclusive worldwide license to the Deer Hunter brand. Glu …

The rise of tablet gaming

Tablet gaming could be a huge market, disrupting traditional game hardware markets.

With more than 25 million units sold, the iPad has become much larger than a number of other historic game platforms (the Sega Dreamcast sold about 8 million …

Reflections on GamesBeat 2011 and the road ahead in mobile games

Our well-attended GamesBeat 2011 conference took place this week, and here’s what you missed.

As I noted in a preview story on mobile games, the conference was all about the wide-open battle for control of the emerging mobile gaming market. …