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...
How to design a game for your teenage daughter
Designing games for teenage girls can be a gold mine on the iPhone or Android mobile devices. But it’s also pretty tricky, if...
First iPad 3 game “screenshot” looking sharp, but Retina display concerns developers
The iPad 3 won’t be officially unveiled before March 7, but an independent developer has already posted images that simulate how the rumored Retina...
VentureBeat Staff Impressions: “The more I play the PlayStation Vita, the less I like it”
Now that the staff has had a chance to put Sony’s new handheld device through its paces, what does it think? Sebastian Haley, Reviews...
John Robertson on The Dark Room, his merciless and hilarious YouTube game (interview)
John Robertson has created a monster. The Australian stand-up comedian’s YouTube adventure game The Dark Room has been played over 220,000 times in less...
PlayStation Vita: THE hardware review
There is something extravagant about the release of a new game system: the promise of new and previously unheard of software experiences … hardware...