Is a trade battle looming with China over World of Warcraft?
World of Warcraft, one of the most successful fantasy online role-playing games of all time, was recently shut down in China for weeks. On...
Looking for more experts for our “Conversations on Innovation” series
We hope you’ve noticed the series of posts we’ve been running called “Conversations on Innovation.” Every few days or so, we publish another piece...
Allied Red chaperones your brand across media
As we noted in today’s story on Massiverse, transmedia storytelling, or telling stories across different media, is catching on. Entertainment properties that succeed in...
TC50: ToonsTunes is like GarageBand for kids
ToonsTunes, another startup debuting at the TechCrunch50 conference in San Francisco today, is a virtual playground for children to hear, create perform and share...
Storytelling startup Massiverse set to launch its first cross-media tale
Trying to tell a story (and capitalize on one) across multiple media is called Transmedia storytelling. And that’s what Massiverse is going for with...
Week in review: AMD simplifies the PC-buying process, we compare Facebook and Facebook Lite, and more
Here’s a rundown of what happened in the last week of tech and business news. First up, the five most popular stories VentureBeat published...
The most popular digital goods are virtual money, weapons and gifts
People are paying real money for digital goods in all sorts of online applications ranging from Facebook apps to massively multiplayer online games. The...
Console video game sales fall for sixth straight month
Dragged down by the recession and free games, the U.S. console video game industry saw its sales fall for the sixth consecutive month in...
Game Classroom pulls together kids, parents and teachers in one educational site
A Los Angeles firm called Earlier Media is launching an educational games and homework site for kids: Game Classroom. The site for K-6 kids...
Week in Review: Analyst scoffs at iPhone competitors, we look at the venture capital “two and twenty,” and more
Here’s a rundown of what happened in the last week of tech and business news. First up, the five most popular stories VentureBeat published...