Web3 gaming firm Sequence names game veteran Greg Canessa as COO
Game veteran Greg Canessa has joined Web3 gaming firm Sequence as president and COO. Canessa has had a long career as an executing in...
The DeanBeat: Using creativity to determine your own destiny in games
In the past week, I combed the San Francisco Bay Area to find the most inspiring game developers. I went from Cupertino to Novato, from...
GamesBeat 2016 panel delves into balancing monetization and retention
Everybody wants to make money with free-to-play games, but they don’t want to turn up the monetization so high that it turns off loyal...
GSN’s Sparcade lets you play classic arcade games like Pac-Man on mobile for real money
Sony’s GSN Games has a pretty big idea that it’s letting out of the bag today. The prize game company’s Sparcade app will let...
Activision is finally swinging for the fences in mobile games (interview)
Greg Canessa is the vice president of mobile at Activision Blizzard and his job is to move the video game giant into the mobile gaming market in an intelligent way -- especially when it comes to the Kindle Fire and iOS.
Amazon gets endorsement from Activision for games on Kindle Fire
Amazon has a new game platform in the Kindle Fire and it is getting an endorsement today from the biggest game publisher, Activision Blizzard. Skylanders Cloud Patrol will be on the new tablet.
Activision’s The Blast Furnace resurrects Pitfall! for mobile devices
Just in time for the game's 30th anniversary, Activision's new mobile studio, The Blast Furnace, has released a reimagining of the classic Pitfall!
Introducing The Blast Furnace, Activision’s first mobile-only development studio
The new studio is the latest example of Activision's aggressive investment in the mobile development space in the span of just a few months.
Activision taps Swrve for mobile game analytics and A/B testing
Activision Blizzard and Swrve are proving that mobile games are as important as those for consoles.
The road ahead in gaming: Welcome to the Crossover Era
Crossing over from an existing market to an emerging one is what our GameBeat 2012 conference is all about. We're seeing this trend play out in every segment of games.