PapayaMobile will introduce Western Android game developers to Chinese market
China has more than 800 million mobile phones and a huge Android device market. So PapayaMobile hopes to leverage its prime location in Beijing...
Bungie Aerospace flies into mobile and social games
The creators of the Halo video game series are jumping into the social and mobile game markets with the establishment of their Bungie Aerospace...
Lolapps acquires a Flash game engine that makes Facebook games run fast
Aiming to deliver better graphics in social games, Lolapps has acquired the Fliso graphics engine from Sean Cooper Games and hired its creator. The...
GamesBeat 2011 speakers to discuss raising a big pile of money
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...
Boku expands one-tap billing on Android to 56 countries
Boku is announcing today that it is enabling one-tap billing for Android devices in 56 countries. That allows users to pay for things such...
Meet our all-star panel of judges for our game start-up contest, Who’s Got Game?
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...
Civilization World taps Live Gamer for monetization on Facebook
As the Facebook game industry shifts toward Facebook’s Facebook Credits virtual currency ahead of the July 1 deadline, Live Gamer is making itself useful...
Awesome! Activision blows a kiss to fans with Call of Duty XP event
Just as Blizzard Entertainment has Blizzcon for its game fans, Activision Blizzard is now creating Call of Duty XP 2011, a two-day convention for...
Gamevil to invest $10M in U.S. game developers
South Korean mobile-game publisher Gamevil, aiming to break into the U.S. market, announced Wednesday it will invest $10 million into partnerships with external game...
More awesomeness: Another slate of GamesBeat speakers
Today we’re revealing the seventh group of speakers for our third annual GamesBeat 2011 conference. Our newest slate of speakers will be part of a...