Categories Posted inin Business Layoffs at Disney-owned studios could signal increased focus on mobile and social Posted byby GamesBeat January 30, 2013 1 min The Walt Disney Company is shifting gaming focus to mobile, social and the upcoming Disney Infinity.
Categories Posted inin Business Cross-platform game developer Digit raises $2.5M in latest funding round Posted byby Jeff Grubb January 30, 2013 1 min The cross-platform development specialists at Digit raised money to help release new games.
Categories Posted inin Business Sports-betting game Fanhood prepares for expansion as Super Bowl and March Madness approach Posted byby Dean Takahashi January 30, 2013 3 min Fanhood wants to make it easy for friends to challenge each other during the March Madness social betting season.
Categories Posted inin Business Mobile game monetization startup PlayHaven’s new COO: ‘There is life after Google’ Posted byby Dean Takahashi January 30, 2013 2 min Charles Yim served as head of mobile application partnerships at Google.
Categories Posted inin Business Black Ops II’s in-game live-streaming feature adds support for Twitch Posted byby Jeff Grubb January 30, 2013 2 min Activision and Treyarch team up with Twitch to live stream the popular modern-military first-person shooter.
Categories Posted inin Business Google Play revenue growing 10X faster than Apple’s iOS app store Posted byby GamesBeat January 30, 2013 2 min Apple's app store is still bigger than Google Play and still earns much more revenue. But while Google's app store grew revenue 200 percent in the fourth quarter of 2012, Apple's iOS app store grew only 20 percent.
Categories Posted inin Business Injustice: Gods Among Us is not a reskinned Mortal Kombat (hands-on preview) Posted byby Giancarlo Valdes January 30, 2013 3 min Developer NetherRealm Studios has made some key changes to its fighting formula to make sure Injustice stands out from its Mortal Kombat games.
Categories Posted inin Business Google Play and Apple app store sales increasingly dominated by Japan, Korea, and China Posted byby GamesBeat January 30, 2013 2 min Asia loves apps, apparently. Especially if they're games.
Categories Posted inin Business FanDuel raises $11M for daily fantasy sports contests Posted byby Dean Takahashi January 30, 2013 2 min FanDuel rises to the top of fantasy sports with another round of funding.
Categories Posted inin Business Nintendo reports a thin third-fiscal-quarter profit and sells 3M Wii U consoles in first season Posted byby Dean Takahashi January 30, 2013 2 min Nintendo reports figures for its third fiscal quarter.