Categories Posted inin Business Ads account for up to 30 percent of social-game revenue (exclusive) Posted byby Dean Takahashi September 30, 2013 2 min Data from Appnext shows that advertising in social titles is no longer something that developers can forget about or ignore.
Categories Posted inin Business Evidence mounts that King, maker of Candy Crush Saga, has filed for IPO Posted byby Dean Takahashi September 30, 2013 2 min New York Times identifies investment bankers who will handle King IPO.
Categories Posted inin Business Intellect Motion launches Kickstarter for iMotion virtual hand controls Posted byby Dean Takahashi September 29, 2013 3 min The iMotion controller replaces a mouse and gives you tactile feedback when you grab things in a virtual world.
Categories Posted inin Business EA agrees to pay tens of millions to college athletes Posted byby Dean Takahashi September 28, 2013 1 min The payments will settle player lawsuits about making money from their animated images.
Categories Posted inin Business Bucking the MOBA trend: Why S2 Games takes storytelling ‘seriously’ in Strife (exclusive) Posted byby Giancarlo Valdes September 28, 2013 5 min Do players care about a MOBA's story? S2 Games thinks so, and it wants to prove that with Strife.
Categories Posted inin Business SteamBox? Xi3 teases a new Piston PC game ‘console’ coming Monday Posted byby Dean Takahashi September 27, 2013 1 min Is this going to be one of the Valve Steam Machines?
Categories Posted inin Business EA Sports settles $40 million case brought on by college athletes Posted byby Mike Minotti September 27, 2013 1 min EA Sports is paying big money to former student athletes to settle a lawsuit.
Categories Posted inin Business EA lists Battlefield 4’s seven multipalyer modes Posted byby Mike Minotti September 27, 2013 1 min From classic Conquest to squad-based deathmatches, Battlefield 4 has plenty of multiplayer variety.
Categories Posted inin Business Former Angry Birds, Clash of Clans partnership lead joins mobile studio Scopely Posted byby Mike Minotti September 27, 2013 1 min Michail Katkoff takes his free-to-play expertise from Supercell to Scopely.
Categories Posted inin Business GamesBeat weekly roundup: King readies IPO? Valve’s new Steam OS brings PC games to TV Posted byby GamesBeat September 27, 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.