Gree and Yahoo Japan invest $2.2M in GxYz social-gaming business

The joint venture will bring about social games on smartphones.

Half the Sky Facebook game to create awareness about sex slave trafficking

The project shows that social games can inspire social change.

User acquisition may not be sexy, but it’s critical in mobile games (part 1)

A panel of experts describes both paid and non-paid user acquisition tactics.

This 13-year-old boy runs his own mobile game startup

Jordan Casey is making the rounds at game conferences and selling multiple iOS and Android games.

Sony whacks the price of the PlayStation Vita in Japan

Sony cuts price on Wi-Fi version by 20 percent and 3G version by 30 percent.

Analyst: Wii U a ‘mistake’ for Nintendo — what the company needs to do to recover

The Wii U needs games, but Nintendo also needs to start fighting the right battle.

GamesBeat weekly roundup: Luigi turns 30, and Obama says we need more gamers

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.

After last year’s boom, social casino games remain strong

Social casino games acquired by gambling companies are generating huge revenues even after the deals are done.

Irrational Games sets a new high bar in hype with its latest promo for BioShock Infinite

Get schooled on the ominous Songbird character in the upcoming first-person shooter.

The DeanBeat: The state of free-to-play mobile gaming, by the numbers

With more than 850 million smart devices out there, the transition to smartphones isn't even half way done.

This is what a prototype PlayStation 4 controller reportedly looks like

An alleged prototype controller for the next PlayStation system appears online.

From tabletop to digital: Why people are paying $500 for a game that’s not out yet

A few masters of tabletop gaming are creating a digital-only card game, and future players are already dropping hundreds of dollars to get in on it. What's the secret?

New smartphone shooter attempts to improve first-person controls on touch devices

Developer Scattered Entertainment has some new ideas when it comes to controlling a character in a first-person game.