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.
Hello, Hero Academy: $2M deal helps mobile-platform Yodo1 bring Western games to China
Yodo1, a Beijing-based mobile gaming platform, announced today that it has received $2 million from ChangYou Fund to "accelerate" distribution of Western iOS and Android titles in the rapidly growing Chinese market.
Pocket Gems launches All Talk voice-based mobile game
With hundreds of thousands of mobile games available on smartphones, innovating isn’t that easy. But Pocket Gems hopes to stand out from the crowd...
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.
Game pioneer Trip Hawkins was forming a “rebel alliance” among indie game developers (exclusive)
Trip Hawkins, who resigned on Sunday as chief executive of mobile and social game maker Digital Chocolate, was trying to form an alliance dubbed...
Gaming pioneer Trip Hawkins resigns from Digital Chocolate
Trip Hawkins, a pioneer of video games, has resigned from Digital Chocolate, the mobile and social game company that he founded.
Google+ scores Digital Chocolate’s Gangs of Boomtown as an exclusive social game
Digital Chocolate is launching its new social game Gangs of Boomtown as an exclusive title for Google+. The title is the third that Digital...
Heyzap unveils 12 partners for its social discovery network for mobile games
Heyzap, operator of a social mobile gaming network, has unveiled a list of 12 mobile gaming leaders that are partnering with it to promote...
How Zynga grew from gaming outcast to $9 billion social game powerhouse
Update: This article is now available as a 63-page e-book on Amazon’s Kindle bookstore. Zynga has turned the video game world upside down in...
Raptr unveils new data about Zynga’s social gamers
All eyes are on Zynga now as the social gaming company prepares to go public in an initial public offering. The social game maker has...