CrowdStar is living up to its strategic expansion plan as it announces today that it will launch its hit game It Girl on three different social networks in the fast-growing Russian market.
The expansion shows that fast-moving gaming companies are …
Even high-quality games are still getting lost amid the thousands of apps on the various mobile app stores.
Getting your app discovered is still a lot harder to do on a mobile platform than it is on a social game …
Here’s our roundup of the week’s tech business news. First, the most popular stories published by VentureBeat in the last seven days:
Oops: Microsoft accidentally reveals secret social project — Microsoft is working on a social/design project called Tulalip, according …
Tablet gaming could be a huge market, disrupting traditional game hardware markets.
With more than 25 million units sold, the iPad has become much larger than a number of other historic game platforms (the Sega Dreamcast sold about 8 million …
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. …
Developers are a critical battleground in the war of apps between Apple and Google. And Apple’s pulling ahead, according to Flurry’s latest stats.
In the second quarter, Apple’s iOS operating system gained support from developers while Android saw a decline, …
This year’s winner of VentureBeat’s “Who’s Got Game” startup competition is Kaiju Empire, a social games maker that creates games built around outlandish Godzilla-style monsters.
This company makes games that bring comically outlandish Japanese-style monsters back to video games. It …
VentureBeat’s GamesBeat conference features a competition for gaming companies that have some kind of innovative or disruptive technology. This year, the competition features a lot of cool hardware and social games.
The winner gets an iPad 2 from Trinet and …
Investors haven’t been very good at figuring out which gaming companies will be successful, said Google Ventures partner Joe Kraus.
That’s not limited to social gaming companies like Zynga or Kabam but also hardcore game makers like Trion Worlds, he …
Software licensing has hurt innovation in the video game industry — with social game maker Zynga being the exception to that rule — thanks to large game companies like Nintendo, said Electronic Arts founder and social gaming company Digital Chocolate …
One of VentureBeat’s biggest conferences kicks off today in San Francisco, Calif. — MobileBeat 2011. We’re convening the brightest minds from across all sectors of the industry to explore who will win what we’re calling “the 4G Nirvana.”
4G mobile …
We have 80 (updated) of the gaming industry’s best and brightest lined up for our third annual GamesBeat 2011 conference. We’re grateful that so many leaders of the game industry have stepped forward to talk at our event on July …
We’ve collected some of the finest journalists covering the game industry to moderate the 28 different sessions at GamesBeat 2011, which takes place July 12-13 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. Our full agenda is here. Please meet the …
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, …
Tucked away in Zynga‘s initial public offering filing are the amounts that the company paid to buy a bunch of game studios in the past year or so. The biggest deal was a $53.3 million purchase of Newtoy, the maker …
Today we’re revealing the eleventh group of speakers for our third annual GamesBeat 2011 conference. Our newest batch of speakers illustrates the wide variety of speakers and topics we’re getting for our event on July 12-13 at the Palace Hotel …
Gigya has made its mark by making web sites more social. Now it’s going to gamify them too. The company is announcing today that it will offer a Game Mechanics software as a service so that companies can make their …
Drumroll please. Our panel of all-star judges has picked the finalists for the Who’s Got Game? contest for the best game startup. The judges sifted through 39 entries and came up with eight finalists. This year’s contest will be held …
Today we’re revealing the eighth group of speakers for our third annual GamesBeat 2011 conference. They’re the oddballs fo the group because they aren’t necessarily from the mobile game industry, which is the focus of the conference. Rather, these folks …
VentureBeat is delighted to announce our all-star panel of judges for our third-annual Who’s Got Game? contest. This contest selects the best game start-up after a grueling on-stage bake-off.
This year’s contest, to be held during the GamesBeat 2011 conference …
