Google Easter egg lets you play Breakout with pictures of Breakout
Google celebrates an arcade classic with this clever homage to Atari's Breakout.
Spair launches testing for its mobile cloud-gaming service
Spair wants to help users buy a game once that works on any mobile operating system.
Amazon giving away ‘tens of millions of dollars’ in virtual money with launch of Amazon Coins
Amazon launched its first digital currency today with a giveaway: 500 free Amazon Coins for every Kindle Fire customer. The coins, which are worth $5, can be used to buy games, app, and in-app purchases.
Google to launch ‘Google Play Games’ platform services for game developers
Google will evidently talk about the new game services at Google I/O.
OpenKit hopes to head off Google with capable and open mobile social platform for games
While platform owners like Google may move to build walled gardens, OpenKit will let social gamers roam free.
GamesBeat weekly roundup: WoW loses 1.3M subscribers, Amazon brings paid apps to China, Q1 earnings, and more
This week, Activision reveals strong first quarter earnings while Blizzard loses 1.3 million World of Warcraft subscribers, EA lays off 1,000 but expects to...
Amazon Appstore invades China, beats Google itself to paid apps
This is the latest move in Amazon’s worldwide expansion.
Free-to-play game publisher Kabam opens European operations office in Berlin
The new studio will eventually employ 50 people.
GamesBeat weekly roundup: Minecraft sells 10M on mobile, Call of Duty: Ghosts, Apple hits 50B apps, and more
If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best video game stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.
Google Play comes to Nook at long last, as B&N throws in the Lone Ranger towel
Barnes & Noble has thrown in the towel and abandoned its Amazon-style Android strategy, finally agreeing to add Google's app store, Google Play, to the Nook tablet.