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.
Signia Venture Partners VC is on the lookout for hot mobile game trends.
The co-founder of Playdom is funding game companies; he thinks Zynga's chief executive ought to give up his supervoting rights.
Will Life is Magic become the second big hit for Red Robot Labs in the location-gaming market?
Red Robot Labs is sharing the wealth by investing $2M in developers that use its location-based gaming platform.
Zynga acquired Wild Needle, a casual game company that had backing from Playdom co-founder Rick Thompson, according to TechCrunch.
We’ve heard that the purchase price was $3.8 million, but the companies involved still haven’t acknowledged the deal. Wild Needle was …
Red Robot Labs, a maker of location-based smartphone games, has raised $5 million from Taiwanese media firm Next Media.
The deal is a big endorsement for location-based games, which have struggled to find an audience over the years. But Red …
Grand Cru is announcing today it has raised $2 million in seed funding to build a kids online adventure game called Supernauts.
The company is entering a crowded field, but Grand Cru chief executive Markus Pasula said in an interview …
Editor's Pick
Idle Games is launching a next-generation social game today dubbed Idle Worship. The title opens up a new genre on Facebook — the once popular “god game” — and it has an interesting and witty approach to social gameplay.
Founded …
After leaving mobile app company Outfit7 unexpectedly back in July, Andrej Nabergoj was mum on why or where he was headed. Now he’s announced a new company, Iddiction, that’s just emerged from stealth mode with $3.5 million in seed funding …
