Game of Thrones’ Arya and Sansa Stark on Gamergate: Don’t feed the trolls
The two actresses, who are both veteran users of social media, know that trolls want their targets to engage.
CEO Yoichi Wada of disruptive startup Shinra joins GamesBeat Summit (May 5-6)
Shinra's CEO Yoichi Wada and SVP of Business Jacob Navok will be joining 180 senior execs at the peer-to-peer GamesBeat Summit.
Want to solve for cross-device? Solve multitouch first (and other musings)
TUNE CEO Peter Hamilton talks to VB about multi-touch, identifying high-value customers, re-engagement, and brands versus app developers in the mobile space.
Deep learning startup Artomatix wins $100K at Nvidia’s startup contest
Artomatix solves the huge content problem of making scenery and other art for video games.
Seattle, Vancouver, Toronto & Montreal: VB’s Roadshow is sharing winners & losers in mobile strategies
Mission one in the mobile space: user acquisition. Mission two: monetizing those users. The strategies and research being shared in the VB Mobile Developer Roadshow shares the secret sauce in strategies for both.
Microsoft reveals Windows 10 hardware requirements and upgrade paths
A lot of news is coming out of Microsoft’s Windows Hardware Engineering Community (WinHEC) event in Shenzen today. Following details of Windows 10’s worldwide launch this summer, the upgrade paths and hardware requirements for the company’s latest and greatest operating system have been revealed in two sets of PowerPoint slides.
Tencent revenues grew 24 percent in Q4, lowest pace in seven years
Tencent Holdings reported earnings today that included revenue figures that seemed to indicate the Chinese social networking and video game giant’s meteoric growth was slowing. In...
The big problem with retention in mobile gaming
Even though retention is a key metric for both user acquisition and monetization, we haven’t officially standardized what it really means. It's annoying.
Shinra Technologies’ cloud gaming technical beta kicks off in Google Fiber-equipped Kansas City
Shina's supercomputer streaming begins testing in the Midwest this summer.
Big Viking Games shows how Ontario is becoming a hotbed haven for startups
Credit it all to a combination of hefty government tax credits, top engineering and animation talent, lower costs -- and now, a favorable exchange rate.