GamesBeat Weekly Roundup
Here are some of the stories that ran on GamesBeat this week. We’re running more articles exclusively in the GamesBeat section of VentureBeat, particularly...
Disney and DeNa to collaborate on mobile social games
Disney and Japan’s DeNA have agreed to collaborate on mobile social games to be launched on a worldwide basis. The deal is part of...
Disney to launch Animal Kingdom Explorers hidden-object social game
Disney’s Playdom scored big with Gardens of Time, the most popular game on Facebook last year. Now the company is announcing a new title...
GamesBeat Only weekly roundup
Here are some of the stories that ran on GamesBeat this week. We’re running more articles exclusively in the GamesBeat section of VentureBeat, particularly...
After Disney, Bungie founder dives into mobile games with Industrial Toys (exclusive interview)
Alex Seropian was in charge of huge video game business at Disney Interactive Studios, with more than 500 employees and $500 million revenues. But...
Augmented reality takes pop-up books to the next level (interview)
Augmented reality, combining real world views and digital information, is not particularly new, but it is still considered in its infancy. The technology has...
Kiip announces Swarm to stage mobile game contests with big rewards
Kiip, which offers real world prizes for rewards in mobile games, is launching a new feature called Swarm for its brand advertisers. In a...
Move over Farmville, Gardens of Time is Facebook’s most popular game
To the dismay of bosses and spouses everywhere, Facebook, by way of third-party social games, offered social networkers a daily distraction they could not...
Disney poaches OnLive exec to head social games
Disney has hired away OnLive executive John Spinale to be the new head of the Disney Interactive Media Group’s social games business. Spinale will...
Review: Kinect Disneyland Adventures is the most unique and most disappointing Kinect game yet
For the better part of five years, I worked as Disney cast member. I spent day after day learning the biggest secrets of a...