Applied Research Associates Acquires Virtual Heroes to make serious games
Defense contractor Applied Research Associates has acquired Virtual Heroes, a game developer which has shown a particular skill in creating games for business or...
iPhone devotion blinds Silicon Valley app developers
The rush to develop iPhone applications is blinding Silicon Valley software developers to other platforms with potentially wide global audiences, most notably Nokia’s Ovi...
Brightkite, a mobile location-sharing service, merges with Limbo
Brightkite, a social network that lets users share their location on mobile phones, has merged with Limbo, a Silicon Valley company with a rather...
Oil co. Terralliance runs out of cash — should have reconsidered the Russian jets
[Update: After speaking to a source close to the situation at Terralliance, some of the information in this post merits correction. The company turned...
Sega shows off next big Olympics game, targets Wii and DSi
Sean Ratcliffe, vice president of marketing at Sega of America (pictured below), talked with us about Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games,...
Thanks for coming to GamesBeat
We’d like to thank everyone for coming to GamesBeat 09, our inaugural games conference held Tuesday in San Francisco. The event drew hundreds of...
The future of games: Beyond devices, beyond fun
Video games are quickly becoming an art form, agreed the speakers at a panel on the future of gaming at our GamesBeat 2009 conference...
Sony Online hopes to capture family market with Free Realms
John Smedley, president of Sony Online Entertainment, hasjust delivered a keynote address for GamesBeat 2009 that covers the history of SOE, and its bold...
VC’s view of games: ‘An infinitely fragmented market’
The economy is soft, admitted the panel of venture capitalists at GamesBeat 2009. But Mitch Lasky, from Benchmark Capital, said, “We’re looking for what...
Denis Dyack of Silicon Knights on how cloud computing will impact games
[Editor’s note: The following is a guest column contributed by Denis Dyack, founder and president of Silicon Knights, one of the world’s largest independent...