Categories Posted inin Technology MediaSpike expands effort to place product ads inside social and mobile games Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 21, 2013 2 min Company hires chief revenue officer Manny Anekal and counts Pepsi as one of its customers in its effort to get past "banner blindness." Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Technology OnLive’s new chairman has ‘buyer’s elation’ as he announces engineering leader Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 20, 2013 2 min OnLive's new owner says in a post that the cloud gaming company once again has forward momentum. Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Technology Playnomics uses deep analytics to help game publishers pitch ads to the right players (exclusive) Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 20, 2013 2 min Playnomics will use ads from Aditive to target ads at the right players. Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Technology Nvidia introduces its own Grid-based server: the Visual Computing Appliance Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 19, 2013 2 min Nvidia's Grid VCA will speed visual cloud-based applications for users. Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Technology Chumba World bounces back from Kickstarter suspension with $2.6M in investor funding (exclusive) Posted byby GamesBeat March 18, 2013 2 min Massively multiplayer online casino game Chumba World is recovering from a bad beat thanks to some new venture capital investors. Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Technology Kizzang will give away $7.7M in a free March Madness sweepstakes bracket game Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 17, 2013 3 min A Las Vegas startup with video game veterans plans to launch a whole series of sweepstakes games. Continue Reading 3 min
Categories Posted inin Technology GamesBeat weekly roundup: Whales of social gaming, Starcraft II guide, Saints Row IV, and family Minecraft servers Posted byby GamesBeat March 15, 2013 3 min If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best video game stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed. Continue Reading 3 min
Categories Posted inin Technology The DeanBeat: It’s the community, stupid. Again. Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 15, 2013 5 min Every company has to ask itself if its actions are good or bad for the gaming community. Continue Reading 5 min
Categories Posted inin Technology Sega teams up with Huddle so game developers can, uh, huddle on cross-Atlantic projects Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 14, 2013 2 min U.S. and U.K. teams use the cloud to collaborate. Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Technology What it means to be a ‘whale’ — and why social gamers are just gamers Posted byby GamesBeat March 14, 2013 7 min "Whales" are more than dollars signs -- they're regular gamers with an obsession and social lives that extend beyond the game. Continue Reading 7 min