Puzzle & Dragons is generating $2.5 million in revenue a day.
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.
Last year, Epic Games sold a 40 percent ownership stake to China’s Tencent, according to an interview with Epic Games founder Tim Sweeney. That makes the deal one of the biggest investments in games last year, and it values Epic …
Mobile messaging apps are turning out to be a great way to get games noticed.
What does a massive social network following and criticizing China's government from within get you? For Kai-fu Lee, the former head of Google in China, it was a three-day ban social networking.
Social casino games acquired by gambling companies are generating huge revenues even after the deals are done.
Editor's Pick Game investments were red hot in the first half, but slowed after Zynga's sinking market value crushed valuations.
Guest Post Imagine a mobile application that combines the best features of Skype, Whatsapp, iMessage, Instagram and even Google’s Circles. This mobile app for smartphones was recently re-dubbed WeChat, as Tencent prepares to launch it into global markets.
Riot Games hopes to turn its hit game League of Legends into a household name by dramatically expanding a professional-gaming league that rewards players with big prizes and recognition.
Gordon Bellamy resigns from the largest game developer association, the IGDA, for a position with China's Tencent.
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.
GamesBeat's Dean Takahashi interviews Tencent's David Wallerstein about its approach to games in China and its investments in Western game developers.
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When Facebook decided to open-source the hardware that makes its data centers some of the most energy-efficient and innovative in the tech industry, others tech giants were eager to join in and open-source their Internet hardware as well. But not …
We’re pleased to announce the all-star moderators for our annual GamesBeat 2012 conference next week, July 10-11 in San Francisco.
Here’s the list in order of appearance and the session they’re moderating.
Day one
Dean Takahashi, the lead writer …
Activision Blizzard has partnered with Chinese Internet portal Tencent to launch Call of Duty Online in China. The long-term partnership brings two of gaming’s juggernauts together.
Call of Duty is one of the world’s largest video game franchises, selling more …
Take-Two Interactive has launched its big online-games experiment in China today with the public beta test of its free-to-play NBA 2K Online game on the Tencent Games portal.
The game is a bridge from the past of console games to …
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.
China’s most valuable Internet company, Tencent, is continuing its invasion into the U.S. gaming market in a big way today. Epic Games, maker of popular titles like Gears of War, announced today that Tencent has made a strategic minority investment …
Yves Guillemot, the chief executive of French game publisher Ubisoft, belives that traditional game companies will be able to meet the challenge of the changing game business, which is being disrupted with new business models and platforms. Ubisoft’s position is …
China has one of the most dynamic and unique game markets in the world. Rising from virtual non-existence a decade ago, and surviving a stage when every disk was pirated, the nation has become a force to be reckoned with …
