The DeanBeat: How developers can avoid a bloodbath in fighting for new users
In the past month, what app makers have to spend to get the attention of Apple device users has risen out of control. That’s...
Major tech and gaming companies unite to purge sex offenders from online games
Major tech and game companies will join the fight to purge convicted sex offenders from online video games in Operation: Game Over, according to...
Wooga scores 11M downloads for Diamond Dash on iOS
Wooga has come out of nowhere to become the second-largest player on Facebook in social games. Now it is showing great progress in getting...
Gabriel Leydon foresees the “true dominance” of mobile games coming (interview)
Addmired Chief Executive Gabriel Leydon is a true believer in the mobile space. With more than a billion users of his games, Leydon sees big opportunity....
The new iPad is for gaming
The new iPad, third generation, iPad 3, whatever you call it, is a serious gaming machine. For some games, it even rivals a console...
Neil Young’s path to the multibillion-dollar mobile social game market (interview)
Neil Young sold his San Francisco startup Ngmoco to Japan’s DeNA for $403 million in the fall of 2010. And that was just the...
Game makers embrace the iPad on launch day
Game developers and publishers expressed their support for the new Apple iPad as it launched around the world on Friday. One of the ways...
The DeanBeat: The top 12 trends from the GDC
Too often, I flit from one conference to another like a wayward butterfly, trying to catch up with all the news. But the Game...
A roundup of stories from the Game Developers Conference
Our GamesBeat team is exhausted after five days of covering the biggest show for game developers in San Francisco. Here’s a day-by-day roundup of...
Game developers salivate over the new iPad’s specs
The new iPad’s high-end specifications are perfect for game developers and will up the ante when it comes to building better graphics into their...