Zynga’s looking for someone to create its real-money poker platform
Social game giant Zynga is looking to get into real-money online gambling, and it's looking for someone to help build the platform for it.
GamesBeat weekly roundup: Tom Hanks, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater HD, game startups in Estonia, and more
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.
China’s Tencent marches to the West in search of kick-ass games (interviews)
GamesBeat's Dean Takahashi interviews Tencent's David Wallerstein about its approach to games in China and its investments in Western game developers.
Kixeye promises console disruption with free-to-play, browser-based hardcore games (interview)
Facebook's been good to Kixeye. In our fireside chat with chief executive Will Harbin, he explains how the social hardcore gamemaker is branching out.
Weaker Q2 tech earnings could make investors jittery
Earnings season starts this week for tech companies, and no one is expecting outstanding second-quarter results. If the reports turn out to be weaker...
Will GameStop’s digital ventures be enough to ward off online threats? (interview)
Chris Petrovic (pictured above) is the general manager of GameStop Digital Ventures. His job is to make sure that the world’s largest video game...
Some Facebook games no longer ask permission to access your profile information
Zynga, Kixeye, and Electronic Arts have worked a deal with Facebook to allow users to start playing their games without having to agree to any dialogue boxes.
Browser developer Kixeye: We will absolutely rival hardcore games
Kixeye branching away from Facebook to browsers and continuing its pursuit of hardcore gamers.
Portalarium raises $7M for Facebook and mobile role-playing games (exclusive)
Portalarium, the social game startup headed by famous developer Richard Garriott, has raised $7 million in funding to complete development of its first title, Ultimate Collector.
Zynga stock price takes a dive, triggering circuit breakers
Zynga shares fell today as fears about the company’s user base prompted another sell-off. Zynga’s shares dropped as much as 13 percent. That triggered...