Why can King, but not other companies, afford to remove in-game ads?

King recently decided to abandon in-game advertising. Why? Let's look at the situation and how different types of developers approach the issue.

King.com saw its Facebook desktop player numbers blossom after Candy Crush Saga’s mobile launch

Candy Crush Saga has hit 10 million daily active players and become the largest game on Facebook.

King.com localizing 2 of its hugely popular free-to-play games for Japan and Korea

The developer is preparing Candy Crush Saga and Bubble Witch Saga for release in the two Asian nations.

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.

With Candy Crush Saga launching on mobile, King.com says ad revenue has grown 10X in past year

King.com hopes to parlay its success on Facebook into mobile as its ad revenues increased ten-foll over the last year.

Wooga expands into mobile with its Bubble Island arcade shooter game

Bubble shooter games are now played by millions upon millions of players. Wooga is the latest to join the fray.

Facebook’s Zuckerberg unhappy with Zynga’s 20% decline in payments

Zynga didn't get much love from Facebook today.

Mark Zuckerberg made it clear that he wasn't impressed by how little gaming is contributing to the social network's bottom line, saying overall payments from Zynga had declined 20 percent.

In-app ads: How to get 20% engagement and 2,000% higher click-through

This just may be a blinding flash of the obvious, but apparently we like ads that don't suck. And fit into our current context. And give us something we want.

Whoda thunk?

The DeanBeat: How fast will the shift to huge growth for mobile games happen?

With the console market looking a little shaky and Facebook starting to slow down, mobile stands before the gaming industry as a potential savior.

Bubble Witch Saga for iOS is the first mobile game to sync player progress with Facebook

Casual games developer King.com announced that its free-to-play title, Bubble Witch Saga, is now available on the iTunes App Store.

GamesBeat weekly roundup: Tom Hanks, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater HD, game startups in Estonia, and more

If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best games stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.

17 reasons to go to GamesBeat 2012

We’ve been writing a lot of posts about our speakers at GamesBeat 2012. But here’s a summary of why we think this is the must-attend game conference for you.

We’re gathering the industry’s top CEOs, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, investors, journalists, …