GamesBeat weekly roundup
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.
The DeanBeat: Apple and Samsung give console makers a reprieve
This year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) video game trade show had all the potential for disruption but none of the follow-through. Always nipping at...
A visual tour of the 2012 Apple Design Awards winners
Love it or hate it, Apple is about design. The company’s annual design awards were announced this week at the World Wide Developers Conference...
Apple brings its iPhone Game Center to the Mac
Apple is adding its iPhone social gaming service, Game Center, to the Mac for the first time, the company announced at WWDC Monday. This will enable more social gaming features that allow players to easily find their game-playing friends and play with them.
Apple introduces thinner MacBook Pro with Retina Display
Apple introduced a new MacBook Pro laptop today that uses the “revolutionary” retina display that has been previously only used in the iPhone and...
Japan’s Gree moves mobile gaming into the spotlight at E3 (interview)
Japan's Gree flexed its muscle by showing off 21 mobile social games at E3.
Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot embraces disruption, new business models and new platforms (interview)
Yves Guillemot, the chief executive of French game publisher Ubisoft, belives that traditional game companies will be able to meet the challenge of the...
Are Chinese gamers addicted to crack?
Freemium mobile games might help foreign developers confront piracy in China.
Nintendo ends its apathy toward online-services
For years, Nintendo has famously flaked out regarding its online support. After suffering its first annual loss, and under pressure from Apple, that disinterest may have finally given way.
iPhone app downloads plummeted in March while marketing costs held steady
The number of iPhone app downloads crashed in March, but the cost of marketing those apps held steady according to the latest Fiksu index...