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.

Ahoy, transmedia! Warner Bros. sails into digital games (interview)

While others are cutting back, Warner Bros. is opening a new studio to hire digital game studios.

David Ko sees mobile as critical for Zynga’s comeback in 2013 (interview)

Zynga's No. 2 executive says success in mobile will depend on delivering core franchises.

Widening its net, Kabam launches third-party publishing business

Kabam follows the example of other fast-growing digital firms, by publishing games made by other developers.

Gaming consumes a great share of dollars spent on the Google and Apple app stores

December saw an astounding increase in revenues and downloads for mobile games.

Kabam’s 2012 revenues grow 70 percent — beyond $180M

Expanding to mobile in 2012 proves to be a fantastic strategy for the privately held game developer.

Newzoo warns of a gap between investor thinking and game-market opportunities

Investors are worried about the U.S. retail game market. But overall game-industry sales are at $68 billion, growing 7 percent a year.

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.

GamesBeat weekly roundup: Disney Infinity, torsos, and violence in video games

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.

Kabam acquires Vancouver studio Exploding Barrel Games

Exploding Barrel Games worked on Margaritaville and is making free-to-play mobile and social games now.

Balrogs! Kabam can’t keep No. 11 top-grossing iOS game The Hobbit live tonight

The superpopular Tolkien take-off The Hobbit: Kingdoms of Middle-earth is apparently too popular.

Hobbit game publisher Kabam raises funds from Warner Bros. and MGM

Kabam is continuing its success with a second game based on the fantasy trilogy.

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.

Kabam acquires Balanced Worlds game studio in China

The deal helps the company expand into Asia's fast-growing mobile games market.