Gameloft’s second quarter growth gives hope to the mobile market

French publisher Gameloft released its second quarter earning report today, showing healthy growth for the mobile-focused company.

Analysts and game industry reeling from Zynga’s shocking earnings report, stock down 39 percent

Zynga's weak earnings report yesterday has spurred an investor panic, cratering the company's stock price by 39 percent today.

BustVille: Zynga shares down an astounding 35% in after-hours trading

The company's stock closed the day at $5.19, but it dropped, at one point, by 40 percent on news of the terrible earnings.

Zynga to launch real-money gambling online games in 2013

Zynga's first real-money online gaming game will likely launch outside the U.S. until other legal markets emerge.

Zynga misses Q2 earnings estimates by a wide margin, incurring Wall Street’s wrath

Zynga reports increases in overall revenue, users, and advertising business along with some short-term challenges that caused the shortfall in estimates.

Facebook outlines the opportunities in social games

Social games are more popular than ever, with new genres emerging, says Facebook's Sarah Brooks.

Zynga’s looking for someone to create its real-money poker platform

Social game giant Zynga is looking to get into real-money online gambling, and it's looking for someone to help build the platform for it.

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.

Earnings preview: Game makers to see mixed second quarter

Financial analysts at Robert W. Baird & Co. predict how well video game publishers performed this fiscal quarter ahead of earnings reports.

Zynga’s Mark Pincus discusses how mobile could disrupt the game industry (video interview)

Zynga chief Mark Pincus isn't shy about expressing his opinion -- especially at our MobileBeat/GamesBeat 2012 conference last week. Here's the video.

Zynga designers help Pulitzer Prize winners create social charity game

Zynga announced today that it's lending out its game developers to help create a social charity game on Facebook.

Weaker Q2 tech earnings could make investors jittery

Earnings season starts this week for tech companies, and no one is expecting outstanding second-quarter results. If the reports turn out to be weaker than expected, then tech investors might run for the hills, the San Jose Mercury News reported.…

Some Facebook games no longer ask permission to access your profile information

Zynga, Kixeye, and Electronic Arts have worked a deal with Facebook to allow users to start playing their games without having to agree to any dialogue boxes.

GamesBeat weekly roundup: Angry Birds, the Ouya console, and Penny Arcade’s ad-free gambit

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 2012 roundup: The Crossover Era, Ouya, the iPad as this generation’s console

The GamesBeat 2012 conference called on speakers from the hottest mobile, social, PC, and console companies to debate new ways to stay on pace with changing consumer tastes and platforms. Here is a collection of the stories out of this year's event.

Zynga’s Mark Pincus says focus more on content, less on investing in platforms

One of the major issues with the mobile ecosystem today is that developers are still separated from the app store, insists Zynga founder Mark Pincus.

“We need to be more interconnected with each other as an industry,” Pincus said at …