Google Play and Apple app store sales increasingly dominated by Japan, Korea, and China
Asia loves apps, apparently. Especially if they're games.
Loyal-user-acquisition costs up 21 percent on iOS in December
Downloads were up in December for the iOS App Store, but so were marketing costs.
Newzoo warns of a gap between investor thinking and game-market opportunities
Investors are worried about the U.S. retail game market. But overall game-industry sales are at $68 billion, growing 7 percent a year.
EA’s Origin service for Mac goes into alpha — coming in February [update]
Valve's Steam service and the Mac App Store must be trembling in fear right now.
Audojo iPad case brings full physical controls to Apple’s tablet
A new Kickstarter project claims to make the iPad better with analog sticks and buttons.
Temple Run 2 is finally available for Android
Developer Imangi Studios released its latest game on Google's mobile OS.
This 22-day-old open-source Minecraft-cloning game builder runs in Javascript in your browser
Max Ogden has built a tool for creating Minecraft-like 3D games, all within a browser using JavaScript and OpenGL.
GamesBeat weekly roundup: Disney Infinity, torsos, and violence in video games
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.
How Rick Thompson became the über investor for gaming (interview)
The co-founder of Playdom is funding game companies; he thinks Zynga's chief executive ought to give up his supervoting rights.
Lode Runner’s 30th anniversary sees the gaming classic reborn for iOS and Android
Lode Runner Classic, a remastered version of the classic 1983 video game, releases for iOS and Android smartphone devices today.