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 …

Come learn why design is king at MobileBeat 2012

Tomorrow VentureBeat will kick off our fifth annual MobileBeat conference, where we’ll be focusing heavily on the theme “design is the new battleground.”

We’re not just talking about pretty apps — we’ll be exploring design from all angles, from the …

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, …

The road ahead in gaming: Welcome to the Crossover Era

Crossing over from an existing market to an emerging one is what our GameBeat 2012 conference is all about. We're seeing this trend play out in every segment of games.

Meet our all-star GamesBeat 2012 moderators

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 …

Zynga ‘unleashes’ bigwig Mark Pincus after big product unveiling

Zynga chief executive Mark Pincus was quiet for the past couple of months as Facebook went public and Zynga geared up for its big Unleashed event last week, where the massive social-game developer unveiled its latest social games. But afterward, …

GamesBeat weekly roundup: Dawnguard, Zynga Unleashed, and Sega’s ongoing decline

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.

The DeanBeat: Zynga battles to dominate the red ocean, not the blue

Will the red ocean strategy work for Zynga? The sharks are in the water as the social game giant goes head-on against competitors.