Distance Technologies raises $11.2M for glasses-free mixed reality for enterprises
Distance Technologies has raised $11.2 million for to further develop glasses-free mixed reality apps for enterprises.
Envelop VR adds Google Ventures to $5.5 million round for enterprise virtual reality
Envelop VR, which is creating virtual reality software for enterprises, has closed its Series A round of $5.5 million. The newest investor in this...
Apportable raises $5M for native cross-platform iOS and Android games
Apportable makes it easy to get iOS games to run at full performance on Android.
Apportable’s SpriteBuilder lets developers run their iOS games on Android
SpriteBuilder is based on open-source software and compiles Objective-C game code so that it runs on Android.
MediaSpike raises $5.2M from army of investors for in-game ads
The company places product advertisements inside mobile and social games, which it believes will reach today’s players.
Valve’s Gabe Newell discusses the frontiers of gaming, from wearable technology to “tongue controllers”
Chief executive Gabe Newell talks about gaming innovations and life at Valve.
Bionic Panda raises seed funding for Android mobile games
Bionic Panda Games has raised seed financing to develop mobile games for Google’s Android operating system, the company announced today. Not surprisingly, Google Ventures is...
Reflections on GamesBeat 2011 and the road ahead in mobile games
Our well-attended GamesBeat 2011 conference took place this week, and here’s what you missed. As I noted in a preview story on mobile games, the conference was...
Google Ventures partner: Venture capitalists are bad at picking games
Investors haven’t been very good at figuring out which gaming companies will be successful, said Google Ventures partner Joe Kraus. That’s not limited to...
17 reasons to attend GamesBeat 2011
We’ve been writing a lot of posts about our speakers at GamesBeat 2011. But here’s a summary of why we think this will be...