In Q2, developers favored Apple’s iOS over Google’s Android
Developers are a critical battleground in the war of apps between Apple and Google. And Apple’s pulling ahead, according to Flurry’s latest stats. In the...
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...
The road ahead in mobile games
Mobile gaming is the wide-open battleground of the entertainment industry. While Zynga dominates social games and big publishers rule console games, the global smartphone...
EA’s next mobile lineup features multi-platform multiplayer mayhem (video)
The next version of Electronic Arts’ mobile Scrabble game will let players compete against each other across multiple devices and platforms — at the...
Nielsen: games are the most popular smartphone apps
More than half of all smartphone owners played games and racked up about 8 hours of play time each month in the second quarter...
Zynga planning to diversify beyond Amazon, build its own data centers
One of the little-known facts about social game giant Zynga is that it’s one of the biggest operators of cloud computing infrastructure, built to support...
Is Google+ planning to add games and questions?
While most people are still waiting to experience the plethora of new features available on Google+, there are portions of the new social service...
Zynga inks deal giving AT&T customers exclusive content, credits
Social games maker Zynga is launching a program that will give AT&T customers access to exclusive games and content as well as a number...
Week in review: Lulzsec and Anonymous trade blows
Here’s our roundup of the week’s tech business news. First, the most popular stories published by VentureBeat in the last seven days: Hit the...
Google still doesn’t get games, bans emulators on Android Marketplace
Google has removed a batch of console emulators that let Android users play classic video games from older consoles, like the Super Nintendo (SNES),...