Categories Posted inin Business Anonymous Soldier Wages War on DRM Posted byby GamesBeat February 26, 2010 2 min Between the Penny Arcade comic and the Der Untergang parody, the recent news of Ubisoft's digital rights management scheme has made its way around... Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business Plants vs. Zombies game generates $1M in sales on iPhone Posted byby Dean Takahashi February 25, 2010 1 min If you launched a console video game and sold $1 million worth, it would be a dismal failure. But in the green field of... Continue Reading 1 min
Categories Posted inin Business Introducing the new VentureBeat weekly newsletters Posted byby GamesBeat February 25, 2010 1 min I’m pleased to introduce a brand new way to stay on top of all the innovation that VentureBeat covers. Today we’re announcing the launch... Continue Reading 1 min
Categories Posted inin Business New batch of GamesBeat@GDC speakers: Vanedge Capital, Raine Group, AdMob Posted byby Dean Takahashi February 25, 2010 3 min Once again, we’d like to highlight more stellar speakers we lined up for our upcoming GamesBeat@GDC executive game conference. The event is set for... Continue Reading 3 min
Categories Posted inin Business gWallet launches “brand bar” platform to monetize social games Posted byby Dean Takahashi February 25, 2010 2 min gWallet, an offer startup in social media, is launching an extension to its platform that it believes will improve monetization in social games. The... Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business Epic Games’ Mike Capps on how to build a blockbuster franchise (video) Posted byby Dean Takahashi February 25, 2010 1 min Building a blockbuster franchise is one of the hardest things in the game industry. Epic Games has done so twice with its Unreal first-person... Continue Reading 1 min
Categories Posted inin Business Toss the Turtle – Violent Depictions of the 2-d Physics Posted byby GamesBeat February 25, 2010 2 min The most important thing I’ve learned this generation is people like shooting things and watch stuff blow up. Toss the Turtle combines these themes... Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business Nintendo’s Cammie Dunaway shows off the large-screen DSi XL (video) Posted byby Dean Takahashi February 25, 2010 1 min The new Nintendo DSi XL arrives in the U.S. on March 28. But Cammie Dunaway, executive vice president at Nintendo of America, showed me... Continue Reading 1 min
Categories Posted inin Business Will Nintendo’s first-half game lineup satisfy gamers? Our hands-on impressions Posted byby Dean Takahashi February 25, 2010 6 min The announcement of Nintendo’s DSi XL handheld got a lot of attention today. But the games that the Japanese company talked about are equally... Continue Reading 6 min
Categories Posted inin Business Hi5 to announce new online games management team, acquisition of social game firm Big Six Posted byby Dean Takahashi February 24, 2010 2 min In its ambition to be a player in the red hot category of social network games, Hi5 is expected to announce today that it... Continue Reading 2 min