Bart Decrem says mobile games will spawn a new generation of Disney characters (interview)
Bart Decrem wants Disney's next big characters to emerge from mobile games.
Angry Birds follow-up Amazing Alex tops app charts after just one day
So much for the sophomore slump. Amazing Alex, publisher Rovio's follow-up to its mega-hit Angry Birds, is already claiming the top spot in Apple's app store.
Zynga’s David Ko: Crossing over into mobile is the path to a billion gamers (interview)
Mark Pincus wants Zynga to reach a billion players. Facebook has been good to Zynga over the past five years, but the social network...
Xbox co-creator recruits arcade-game “dream team” to make iPad and iPhone games (interview)
Seamus Blackley, president of Innovative Leisure and co-creator of the Xbox, has assembled a "dream team" of old Atari game designers and assigned them to work with young programmers to develop new arcade-like games for Apple iPads, iPhones and iPod Touches.
Appageddon aftermath: Apple, where do your negative reviews go? (updated)
Appagedon is over, for now. Apps are once again being downloaded from Apple's app store, they're working, and all is well in Apple's app-dom.
The road ahead in gaming: Welcome to the Crossover Era
Crossing over from an existing market to an emerging one is what our GameBeat 2012 conference is all about. We're seeing this trend play out in every segment of games.
The mystery of why Pretty Pet Salon was banned from the App Store and then returned
On Jan. 12, 2012, Pretty Pet Salon mysteriously disappeared from the App Store and then returned again in a different form at the end of March. Why this happened is an interesting tale.
Apple’s crackdown on app-ranking manipulation: Confused developers caught in the dragnet
In the battle between Apple’s police and the developers who cheat to boost their rankings, some innocent startups are finding themselves banned from the marketplace.
GamesBeat weekly roundup: Dawnguard, Zynga Unleashed, and Sega’s ongoing decline
If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best games stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.
A Game of Phones: Google Play and iOS wage bloody war on each other (infographic)
Is the iTunes app store the World of Warcraft of the mobile industry?