The DeanBeat: Game acquisitions rise 23 percent to $3.4B in 2012
The game industry set a new record for the money spent on acquisitions, but the number of deals dropped.
After 6M paid downloads, mobile hit Pocket God wraps up with its final, apocalyptic update
After 47 updates, Pocket God's final episode, Apocalypse Ow, is at hand.
Fight monsters, collect loot, and build a castle in Gree’s new role-playing game
Dragons & Knights: Rise of the Dark Prince from Gree brings social features to classic role-playing gameplay.
OpenKit to release open-source social mobile gaming services with no lock-in for developers
Gree shut down OpenFeint. So OpenKit will replace it and allow developers to own the data associated with their games.
Meteor Entertainment taps Live Gamer to power virtual economy and payments for Hawken (exclusive)
LiveGamer helps Meteor get ready for a major free-to-play worldwide launch of Hawken.
GamesBeat weekly roundup: BioShock Infinite delayed, Epic Games president retires, and Kixeye expands to Canada
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.
After closing OpenFeint, Gree cuts jobs in U.S. offices
Parts of Gree's U.S. platform team will lose their jobs due to "redundancy."
With a new leader, Ngmoco shoots for mobile gaming empire (interview)
The new head of Ngmoco believes mobile games are leveling up.
Swarm hopes to swoop in and help out developers fed up with Gree (exclusive)
Swarm invites studios looking to replace OpenFeint to give its online solutions a try.
Investors weigh in on falling game-startup valuations
Developer Zynga's collapse has taken its toll on game-company valuations. The topic came up at the recent investor panel at the YetiZen game accelerator.