GamesBeat weekly roundup: Minecraft sells 10M on mobile, Call of Duty: Ghosts, Apple hits 50B apps, and more

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.

Gree searches for the billion-dollar game from its swanky S.F. headquarters (interview)

With 450 people at its U.S. headquarters, Japan's Gree is chasing after the giant mobile game.

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.

App Store and Google Play: who’s winning, what’s different, and generally … WhatsApp

This past month, Google Maps lost its position as the most downloaded app on Apple's iOS store -- to another Google app, YouTube.

Open-source social-mobile games platform OpenKit goes into closed-beta test

This open-source effort appeared after Gree shut down the popular OpenFeint mobile social platform in December.

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.

Fight monsters, collect loot, and build a castle in Gree’s new role-playing game

Dragons & Knights: Rise of the Dark Prince from Gree brings social features to classic role-playing gameplay.

OpenKit to release open-source social mobile gaming services with no lock-in for developers

Gree shut down OpenFeint. So OpenKit will replace it and allow developers to own the data associated with their games.

Meteor Entertainment taps Live Gamer to power virtual economy and payments for Hawken (exclusive)

LiveGamer helps Meteor get ready for a major free-to-play worldwide launch of Hawken.

GamesBeat weekly roundup: BioShock Infinite delayed, Epic Games president retires, and Kixeye expands to Canada

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.