DiscoveryBeat 2010: Final agenda at a glance
If you haven’t heard our trumpets blasting over the past few weeks, you may be interested to know that DiscoveryBeat 2010 is coming up...
Video game investors seek to fund games via film financing methods
Two companies hope to bankroll new video games with a financing method that has been used to underwrite billions of dollars for film productions....
Gamers spent $2.6B to $2.9B in first half on digital online goods
While sales of video games in physical stores is declining, the amount spent online on digital goods for games is skyrocketing. Market researcher NPD...
Angry Birds set to flutter onto Android phones
Angry Birds broke all of the records on the Apple App Store in the past 10 months, selling more than 7 million copies. Soon,...
Video games continue a steep decline in September, but Halo: Reach blasts into orbit
The U.S. video game industry saw its sales fall 8 percent in September compared to a year ago, according to the latest sales report...
Virtual goods sales are overtaking ad revenues on the iPhone
Virtual goods are becoming pretty real on the iPhone. Revenue from the sale of virtual goods is now overtaking ad revenue on the iPhone,...
DiscoveryBeat 2010’s latest speakers: Kleiner Perkins’ Bing Gordon and more
Bing Gordon is sitting pretty in the new gaming gold rush that’s all social and mobile. A partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers,...
Facebook Credits expands reach globally in deal with PlaySpan
Facebook has teamed up with social monetization firm PlaySpan to expand its reach to more users around the globe for its Facebook Credits virtual...
Critics skewer Medal of Honor, and investors take down EA’s stock price
Only 30 publications have fully reviewed Electronic Arts‘ big game of the fall, Medal of Honor, on the Xbox 360 game console. But the...
Zynga to expand social game empire to Seattle
Zynga, the fast-growing maker of social games like FarmVille and Mafia Wars, has just posted a bunch of job openings for a social game...