John Spinale navigates Disney’s push into social gaming (interview)
A talk with John Spinale, Disney Interactive's head of social games, at GamesBeat 2012.
The DeanBeat: What GamesBeat 2012 tells us about the road ahead in gaming
July 20, 2012 8:00 AM
Dean Takahashi
Editor's Pick
We had a great time at our well-attended GamesBeat 2012 conference last week talking about the road ahead in games and the Crossover Era. Here’s a summary of some of the sharpest thinking we heard at this year’s event, which …
Zynga’s Mark Pincus discusses how mobile could disrupt the game industry (video interview)
July 18, 2012 10:00 AM
Dean Takahashi
Editor's Pick Zynga chief Mark Pincus isn't shy about expressing his opinion -- especially at our MobileBeat/GamesBeat 2012 conference last week. Here's the video.
GamesBeat weekly roundup: Angry Birds, the Ouya console, and Penny Arcade’s ad-free gambit
July 13, 2012 10:06 AM
Jasmine Maleficent Rea
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.
The panoramic view of GamesBeat 2012
July 13, 2012 10:00 AM
Dean Takahashi
Here's another way to view GamesBeat 2012: panoramic pictures.
GamesBeat 2012: Two days in pictures
July 13, 2012 9:00 AM
Dean Takahashi
Couldn't make GamesBeat 2012? Or eager to relive it? Check out this photo gallery from the event.
GamesBeat 2012 roundup: The Crossover Era, Ouya, the iPad as this generation’s console
July 12, 2012 1:48 PM
Jasmine Maleficent Rea
The GamesBeat 2012 conference called on speakers from the hottest mobile, social, PC, and console companies to debate new ways to stay on pace with changing consumer tastes and platforms. Here is a collection of the stories out of this year's event.
Xbox co-creator recruits arcade-game “dream team” to make iPad and iPhone games (interview)
Seamus Blackley, president of Innovative Leisure and co-creator of the Xbox, has assembled a "dream team" of old Atari game designers and assigned them to work with young programmers to develop new arcade-like games for Apple iPads, iPhones and iPod Touches.
Even Will Wright’s PowerPoint slides are fascinating
July 12, 2012 10:02 AM
Kat Bailey
Legendary game designer Will Wright is so cool that even his PowerPoints are fascinating.
Social gaming startup Akamon claims top prize in our ‘Who’s Got Game’ competition
July 11, 2012 6:00 PM
Kat Bailey
Marketing local, social, and casino games to underserved markets in Latin America and Southern Europe net Akamon the top prize.
Design guru Yves Béhar dishes on the Ouya console (video interview)
July 11, 2012 4:06 PM
Jason Wilson
(About) 5 good minutes with Ouya designer Yves Béhar (video).
Rising costs of marketing iPhone games scares developers
July 11, 2012 2:20 PM
Dean Takahashi
It's hard enough for most makers of iPhone games to find an audience. The costs of doing so are now terrifying developers (and making some nearly pull their hair out).
Ouya designer Yves Béhar’s dream: Reboot the console world (exclusive)
July 11, 2012 1:53 PM
Kat Bailey
Editor's Pick Yves Béhar's designs have shaken up the world of laptops and speakers. He now turns his attention to consoles with Ouya.
If your kids like Pokémon, they’ll go nuts for Nukotoys (with video)
July 11, 2012 12:42 PM
John Koetsier
My 9-year-old collects and plays with Pokémon cards, but if what I saw today from Nukotoys today is any indication of what we can expect in the future, he’ll be switching soon.
Nukotoys is a toy company and a technology …
Mobile industry bigwigs Tapjoy and Kontagent form partnership (exclusive)
July 11, 2012 4:00 AM
Giancarlo Valdes
The two mobile firms plan to help game developers increase user engagement and monetization with its new partnership.
Indie devs: Quality content trumps following trends, free-to-play ‘is kind of a slum’
July 10, 2012 6:48 PM
Kat Bailey
Editor's Pick Indie devs trumpet the importance of quality content, ridicule free-to-play gaming.
Game pioneer Will Wright wants to make games ‘as personal as our dreams’
July 10, 2012 12:52 PM
Kat Bailey
GamesBeat 2012: In Will Wright's vision of the future, the player is the game.
Zynga’s Mark Pincus says focus more on content, less on investing in platforms
July 10, 2012 11:06 AM
Meghan Kelly
One of the major issues with the mobile ecosystem today is that developers are still separated from the app store, insists Zynga founder Mark Pincus.
“We need to be more interconnected with each other as an industry,” Pincus said at …
Dean Takahashi’s opening comments for GamesBeat 2012
July 10, 2012 9:30 AM
Dean Takahashi
Welcome to our fourth annual GamesBeat conference. I’d like to thank everyone who got us here. Matt Marshall, Alicia Saribalis, Stacy Cohen, Elyssa Thorp, Shannon Dow, Garrett McCullum, Jason Spangenthal and the rest of our great VentureBeat business staff. On …
17 reasons to go to GamesBeat 2012
July 9, 2012 12:00 PM
Dean Takahashi
We’ve been writing a lot of posts about our speakers at GamesBeat 2012. But here’s a summary of why we think this is the must-attend game conference for you.
We’re gathering the industry’s top CEOs, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, investors, journalists, …
