Reflections on GamesBeat 2011 and the road ahead in mobile games
Our well-attended GamesBeat 2011 conference took place this week, and here’s what you missed. As I noted in a preview story on mobile games, the conference was...
Why you nerds should stop hating sports games
Basketball game NBA 2k11 doesn’t start off with a title menu. It throws you straight into the classic 1991 championship game between the Chicago...
The 6 Most Valuable Games of All Time (Quantified by NBA Live 1995)
Do we really need a new sports game every single year? Do we really need an annual football game when EA (the developers) hold exclusivity rights with the NFL to ensure there is no competition within the market? The obvious answer here is no. No, we don’t need any more sports games now or ever.
Summer funk continues, video game sales topple 10 percent
In June, video game sales fell once again as the U.S. retail game industry continues to suffer from a low rate of new game releases,...
Cloud-based video games will put pirates out of business
Ever wonder what the gaming world would be like without pirates? That future isn’t too far away, thanks to the advent of cloud-based gaming...
Japanese monster social network Kaiju’s got game at GamesBeat 2011
This year’s winner of VentureBeat’s “Who’s Got Game” startup competition is Kaiju Empire, a social games maker that creates games built around outlandish Godzilla-style...
Games creator Outfit7 hits 150M downloads, doesn’t want funding
Outfit7 announced at GamesBeat today that they have hit 150M downloads between their iOS and Android offerings. Additionally, they have no interest in receiving...
Here are GamesBeat’s 2011 startup standouts
VentureBeat’s GamesBeat conference features a competition for gaming companies that have some kind of innovative or disruptive technology. This year, the competition features a...
Sony’s network guru: PlayStation Network downtime was a ‘great experience’
Most companies would call a hacking attack that brings a critical service offline a disaster. Sony’s president of network entertainment Tim Schaaff thinks it’s...
Updated: Is Angry Birds maker Rovio in the process of raising more funding?
[Update: Another audience member also asked if Rovio was raising money, to which a representative of the company said it was serious about raising...