OpenKit hopes to head off Google with capable and open mobile social platform for games

While platform owners like Google may move to build walled gardens, OpenKit will let social gamers roam free.

OpenKit launches its closed beta for open-source social-mobile platform

First version of OpenKit is now going live, and a public beta could come in April.

Agawi launches platform to make PC games work on Android devices

A number of publishers with 15 games will launch on Agawi's Android platform.

Open-source social-mobile games platform OpenKit goes into closed-beta test

This open-source effort appeared after Gree shut down the popular OpenFeint mobile social platform in December.

Educational technology company Pluto Media raises $500K in seed funding

Pluto Media will expand its Pluto Learns Piano app into a educational tool for learning, creating, and sharing.

OpenKit to release open-source social mobile gaming services with no lock-in for developers

Gree shut down OpenFeint. So OpenKit will replace it and allow developers to own the data associated with their games.

Now streaming for Windows 8: 1,000 games from Agawi’s GameZen

Windows 8's app store just got a boost to its video game offerings thanks to cloud-gaming company Agawi's new GameZen streaming application.

Mobile gaming firm CrowdStar names co-founder as its chief executive

Jeff Tseng, a co-founder, takes the CEO title at CrowdStar.

Cloud-gaming platform looking to partner with developers for streaming games on Windows 8

The new Microsoft operating system presents an opportunity for a new app-based mentality when it comes to games. Cloud-gaming-technology company Agawi is posing to capitalize on that.

Silicon Valley community Hacker Dojo finds a savior in YouWeb incubator

Peter Relan at YouWeb saves the day at Hacker Dojo.

Agawi to use Microsoft’s Windows Azure to bring cloud-gaming services to Windows 8

Look for Agawi to provide streamed games to Windows 8 devices in the not-so-distant future.

YouWeb incubator founder launches Q&A forum for tech entrepreneurs

Peter Relan can't clone himself. But he can share his hard-earned advice for technology entrepreneurs, and he will do so at the new web site FounderQuorom.

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.

Finally, an incubator that doesn’t treat entrepreneurs like expendable ‘spaghetti’

Every incubator has a formula, and most of those formulas involve throwing “spaghetti” of some kind against the proverbial wall to find out what will stick.

Trouble is, most of the time, the entrepreneurs are the spaghetti themselves. And if …

Jason Citron’s Phoenix Guild prepares for the post-PC world of gaming

Jason Citron's latest venture, Phoenix Guild, lands funding, plans to build hardcore social games for tablets in the "post-PC world."

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, …

Here’s what you’re missing from YouWeb and TapJoy at GamesBeat and MobileBeat 2012

We’re pleased to have YouWeb and Tapjoy joining in on the fun at MobileBeat 2012 and GamesBeat 2012 next week in San Francisco. YouWeb shines the spotlight on its portfolio of companies across two breakout sessions, and TapJoy CEO Mihir …

Meet our next round of MobileBeat 2012 speakers

We’re a few weeks away from MobileBeat 2012, VentureBeat’s annual mobile conference, where we’ve lined up some of the biggest names in the industry to chat about this year’s theme, “Design is the new battleground.”

We’ve snagged Matt Murphy, partner …