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.
Amazing Alex, a new physics-based puzzle game for Android and iOS devices, it out now.
Angry Birds is famous for two things: 1. It's cheap. 2. It's a downloadable title. So it's bizarre that Angry Birds Trilogy, a collection of the original Angry Birds, Angry Birds Seasons, and Angry Birds Rio, is neither of those things.
Angry Birds is apparently not enough for Rovio. The makers of the biggest game on mobile devices is ready to roll out a new game: Amazing Alex, which will be available Thursday for Android and iOS devices.
This is a …
Zynga Partners for Mobile already shows promise with its wide variety of games and genres.
The company behind the popular mobile game Fruit Ninja wants to take the Angry Birds phenomenon head-on as it launches its own line of tie-in toys and accessories.
If you like playing Angry Birds but aren't crazy about having to touch a screen to do so, the PlayPad and PlayPad Pro may be for you.
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.
Skylanders, the new game and toy franchise from Activision Blizzard, is exceeding expectations across platforms.
Rovio announced today that Angry Birds has hit 1 billion downloads.
That’s a huge milestone for a game that didn’t exist as a brand until 2010. The downloads include all versions of Angry Birds, Angry Birds Seasons, Angry Birds Rio …
Angry Birds creator Rovio Entertainment reported today that merchandising and licensing revenues accounted for about 30 percent of its sales in 2011.
Rovio released Angry Birds for Facebook on February 14, but now it’s done one better: You can play the game right in your Timeline.
Rovio announced the news today on its blog.
The way it works is this: When you’re …
Angry Birds Space has been downloaded more than 50 million times in its first 35 days on the market, according to publisher Rovio.
That makes it the fastest-growing mobile game in history. And it means that Rovio hasn’t exhausted its …
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.
Antti Stén, the lead server architect for the original Angry Birds, and Tuomas Erikoinen, lead artist, have left Rovio to create a new game studio called Boomlagoon.
Here are some of the stories that ran on GamesBeat this week. We’re running more articles exclusively in the GamesBeat section of VentureBeat, particularly when they’re mainly of interest to our game readers. The broader-interest posts will continue to run …
Rovio is betting that it will be a long time before Angry Birds runs out of steam. This fall, the Finnish company will launch a cartoon series for fans of the game.
The company has one of the hottest brands …
Here are some of the stories that ran on GamesBeat this week. We’re running more articles exclusively in the GamesBeat section of VentureBeat, particularly when they’re mainly of interest to our game readers. The broader-interest posts will continue to run …
The mobile casual gaming worldwide market has the potential to reach $7.5 billion by 2015. Smartphone usage is on the rise and so is the prevalence of mobile gaming, according to a report from SuperData.
Asia is currently the largest …
Minecraft, the hit indie open-sandbox game now coming to XBox 360 in May, has made over $80M since it’s beginnings as a company in October 2011, according to a blog post in the Financial Times.
A game that’s been compared …
