Zynga’s quarterly report by the numbers
Zynga announced its first-ever quarterly reported as a public company today. Here are the relevant numbers: Q4 GAAP net loss: $435.0 million loss vs....
Love connection: 1 in 10 Words With Friends score in real life
Perhaps it’s time to start calling it Words With Friends With Benefits. Fans of Zynga‘s Words With Friends social game on Facebook are making...
Can Zynga satisfy investors with its first-ever earnings report?
Zynga is expected to report a profit for the fourth-quarter in its first-ever quarter financial report after the market closes on Tuesday. The largest...
Making Fun joins the hidden-object game fray on Facebook with Hidden Haunts (exclusive)
Making Fun, the social game division of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., has launched a hidden object game called Hidden Haunts that will set itself...
New details and Outland screens from “World of Warcraft within Minecraft” project (exclusive interview)
A 27-year-old U.S. graduate student known as “Ramses” is creating a stir in the community of Minecraft, the sandbox-building game by Swedish development studio...
Activision’s Eric Hirshberg: Turning games into brands and other non-douche moves (exclusive interview)
Eric Hirshberg was an experiment when Activision Blizzard‘s chief executive hired Hirshberg as CEO of the Activision Publishing division about 18 months ago. Hirshberg...
The DICE Summit in pictures (photo gallery)
Here’s our photo gallery from the DICE Summit 2012. This year’s conference drew more than 700 game industry luminaries to a wide variety of...
GamesBeat weekly roundup: DICE Summit news and more
Here’s some of the stories that ran only on GamesBeat this week. We’re running more stories exclusively on the GamesBeat section of VentureBeat now,...
Valve’s Gabe Newell offers update on Steam security breach
Back in November, we learned that Valve’s online game-distribution service, Steam, had suffered a security breach. A letter to Steam users from co-founder and...
Ninja Gaiden’s creator Itagaki pleads for game designers to create titles that change lives
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Tomonobu Itagaki was at the top of his game. The legendary Japanese game design leader of Team...