Funzio spreads out with games for Google+, Chrome Web Store, and Android Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 5, 2012 3 min Funzio has had a couple of big hits on Facebook and the iPhone with Crime City and Modern War. But now it is spreading... Continue Reading 3 min
Google+ scores Digital Chocolate’s Gangs of Boomtown as an exclusive social game Posted byby Dean Takahashi February 15, 2012 2 min Digital Chocolate is launching its new social game Gangs of Boomtown as an exclusive title for Google+. The title is the third that Digital... Continue Reading 2 min
How Google plans to avoid Facebook’s “games ghetto” with Google+ Posted byby GamesBeat February 9, 2012 2 min “We’ve seen communities ruined by games,” said Google+ engineering director David Glazer to a room full of app developers. “How do we find that... Continue Reading 2 min
King.com launches first game on Google+ Posted byby Dean Takahashi January 24, 2012 2 min King.com has more than 150 games on the web. In the past year, it successfully moved five of the games to Facebook, garnering 23.8... Continue Reading 2 min
Top 5 reasons to support SOPA Posted byby GamesBeat January 20, 2012 1 min You’re likely a little sick of hearing about SOPA by now. I know I’m sure as hell tired of writing about it. But yesterday,... Continue Reading 1 min
The view from CES: The top 10 trends in technology for 2012 Posted byby Dean Takahashi January 18, 2012 9 min The International Consumer Electronics Show is a huge festival of gadgetry, but there’s no better place to get a bead on where technology is... Continue Reading 9 min
Which anti-SOPA game companies are fighting back, and how Posted byby GamesBeat January 18, 2012 10 min The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA) have definitely gotten the Internet’s attention, but not in the good Elmo orders... Continue Reading 10 min
Google creating its own social game using Google Maps Posted byby GamesBeat January 12, 2012 2 min Watch out, Facebook. Google is making its own game for Google+ … and it involves maps. Yesterday, the company released a video of the... Continue Reading 2 min
Game streaming service OnLive to be preloaded on all Google TVs Posted byby Dean Takahashi January 11, 2012 2 min It’s going to get a lot easier to play cloud-based games on your television soon. Game streaming service OnLive announced today that its viewing... Continue Reading 2 min
DeanBeat: Game companies raised a record-breaking $1.54B in 2011 Posted byby Dean Takahashi January 6, 2012 11 min Game fundings destroyed the record book for fundings this year as 145 companies raised more than $1.540 billion in 2011, not counting initial public... Continue Reading 11 min