PlayPhone enables instant multiplayer across Android and iOS devices (exclusive)
PlayPhone is announcing a technology today that will enable instant multiplayer gaming across iOS and Android devices. The technology will be part of the...
PlayPhone buys mobile marketing firm SocialHour for $51.5M (exclusive)
PlayPhone has acquired mobile social marketing firm SocialHour for $51.5 million in stock, VentureBeat has learned. Ron Czerny, chief executive of PlayPhone, confirmed the...
Pre-Mortem: King’s Bounty project lead introduces new race and units (exclusive)
Editor’s Note: GamesBeat is proud to kick off our exclusive Pre-Mortem series of dev diaries with King’s Bounty: Warriors of the North. In each...
Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures actually doing better after The Old Republic’s launch (exclusive)
Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures, an online gaming world aimed at younger (eight- to 12-year old) fans of the animated TV show, has crossed...
With 4 women leading 300 men, Game Insight will triple revenues in 2012 (exclusive)
Game Insight has quietly become a big force in mobile. The Moscow-based game publisher owns a majority stake in 15 game studios with more...
Alex St. John’s Magi.com launches social gaming hub (exclusive)
Alex St. John is back. The former president of social network Hi5 sold off the struggling service to Tagged in December. But now he is...
iSwifter makes iPad game streaming available to all PC game companies (exclusive)
iSwifter found a niche for its cloud streaming service by enabling Flash games to run on the iPad. Now it is extending its platform...
Star Wars: The Old Republic has a chance to get more than 1M long-term subscribers (exclusive)
Electronic Arts’ Star Wars: The Old Republic has a chance to grow to more than 1 million long-term paying subscribers, according to an analysis...
Otoy buys Refractive Software and announces cloud-based digital animation technology (exclusive)
Cloud-gaming startup Otoy is making some big moves in advance of next week’s Game Developers Conference, including its first acquisition: the animated film technology...
Ludei’s CocoonJS enables blazing-fast HTML5 mobile games (exclusive)
As the lingua franca for the web, HTML5 is becoming the format of choice for making cross-platform apps. But when it comes to games,...