Editor's Pick Mobile monetization is separating the industry into the haves and have-nots.
Company also adds industry pioneer Trip Hawkins as a senior advisor.
Hawkins joined the board of directors of Israel-based technology company Extreme Reality which creates gestural-command software.
Gamers at Work is a collection of interviews with some of the game industry's most iconic founders, developers, and entrepreneurs. It's also a handy guide for aspiring business people hoping to break into games.
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.
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.
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Trip Hawkins, who resigned on Sunday as chief executive of mobile and social game maker Digital Chocolate, was trying to form an alliance dubbed FreeGameLeaders to generate free traffic for browser-based games. It was like the “rebel alliance” fighting against …
Trip Hawkins, a pioneer of video games, has resigned from Digital Chocolate, the mobile and social game company that he founded.
With the IPOs of Zynga and Nexon this week, the social and online game industries have their first billion-dollar public offerings. May many more follow.
That’s the spirit among social gaming rivals, including those that have been fierce competitors to …
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Zynga has turned the video game world upside down in its short five-year history. As it’s poised on the verge of a massive initial public offering, …
Reactions to the resignation of Steve Jobs are coming in and they aren’t surprising, given Jobs’ influence on technology over the course of decades. Jobs has left a huge legacy on the world’s business landscape, and his resignation is stirring …
The pundits were out in force today as they described the big drop in the stock market. Which quote was your favorite?
“Markets will rise and fall, but this is the United States of America,” Barack Obama said. “No matter …
Our well-attended GamesBeat 2011 conference took place this week, and here’s what you missed.
As I noted in a preview story on mobile games, the conference was all about the wide-open battle for control of the emerging mobile gaming market. …
We’ve been writing a lot of posts about our speakers at GamesBeat 2011. But here’s a summary of why we think this will be the must-attend game conference for you.
We’re gathering the industry’s top CEOs, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, investors, …
