Updated: Is Angry Birds maker Rovio in the process of raising more funding?
[Update: Another audience member also asked if Rovio was raising money, to which a representative of the company said it was serious about raising...
The value of Bitmob
I ran into Bitmob co-founder Dan "Shoe" at E3 this year and began telling him a story. He put me on hold until we...
Nolan Bushnell aims to disrupt schools with edutainment
Game entrepreneur Nolan Bushnell, the father of video games, said that he plans to disrupt education with a new startup aimed at getting kids...
OnLive CEO says his pet wireless project has sub-millisecond latency
The head of streaming game service OnLive, Steve Perlman, said his new wireless data transmission technology will be so fast that the latency will...
Games industry vet Jordan Weisman: game technology is at its peak
Video game consoles have reached a point where they are so powerful that companies no longer need to focus on adding more horsepower to...
Electronic Arts buys PopCap for $750M
Supergiant video game publisher Electronic Arts has acquired casual game maker PopCap for $650 million in cash and $100 million in stock. The deal...
Google Ventures partner: Venture capitalists are bad at picking games
Investors haven’t been very good at figuring out which gaming companies will be successful, said Google Ventures partner Joe Kraus. That’s not limited to...
EA founder: we are in a dark age of video games (but Zynga is an exception)
Software licensing has hurt innovation in the video game industry — with social game maker Zynga being the exception to that rule — thanks...
THQ CEO: big game companies have to act like a startups to survive
THQ is a well-established company that has dozens of years of experience making video games, but it now has a market cap smaller than...
Welcome to MobileBeat 2011!
One of VentureBeat’s biggest conferences kicks off today in San Francisco, Calif. — MobileBeat 2011. We’re convening the brightest minds from across all sectors of...