Rumble signs Brazilian developer for free-to-play first-person shooter

Aquiris Game Studios hopes to take free-to-play first-person shooters up a notch with Ballistic.

How Rick Thompson became the über investor for gaming (interview)

The co-founder of Playdom is funding game companies; he thinks Zynga's chief executive ought to give up his supervoting rights.

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.

Former BioWare/Pandemic boss raises $15M for mobile-web gaming studio

Rumble Entertainment, a new mobile and browser-based game developer and publisher, announced today that it has raised $15 million in a first round of funding led by Google Ventures and Khosla Ventures.

The large amount of funding shows that the …