Innovative Leisure Archives

GamesBeat weekly roundup: Blizzard hacked, Nividia earnings rise, and more bad news for Zynga

Posted byby GamesBeat
August 10, 2012
2 min

If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best games stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.

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2 min

The golden age returns? Seamus Blackley’s Innovative Leisure mobile game startup raises seed round (exclusive)

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
August 6, 2012
3 min

Innovative Leisure has raised a seed round to fund its "new arcade" mobile games.

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3 min

Xbox co-creator recruits arcade-game “dream team” to make iPad and iPhone games (interview)

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 12, 2012
15 min

Seamus Blackley, president of Innovative Leisure and co-creator of the Xbox, has assembled a "dream team" of old Atari game designers and assigned them to work with young programmers to develop new arcade-like games for Apple iPads, iPhones and iPod Touches.

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15 min

17 reasons to go to GamesBeat 2012

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 9, 2012
5 min

We’ve been writing a lot of posts about our speakers at GamesBeat 2012. But here’s a summary of why we think this is the...

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5 min

Meet our all-star GamesBeat 2012 moderators

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 4, 2012
3 min

We’re pleased to announce the all-star moderators for our annual GamesBeat 2012 conference next week, July 10-11 in San Francisco. Here’s the list in order of...

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3 min

The DeanBeat: GamesBeat 2012 in July will focus on disruption, change, and innovation

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 2, 2012
3 min

We’ve unveiled our first speakers and other details for our fourth annual game conference, GamesBeat 2012. Our roster of speakers includes Will Wright, creator...

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3 min

The makers of Asteroids, Centipede, Missile Command: iPhone is like an ’80s arcade

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 9, 2012
4 min

According to the creators of legendary hits like Battlezone, Asteroids, and Centipede, the iPhone is a whole lot like the old arcades of the...

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4 min

Xbox co-creator Seamus Blackley launches mobile-game startup with Atari arcade veterans

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 3, 2012
7 min

Seamus Blackley, the co-creator of the Xbox, passionately believes that gameplay will triumph in the game business. That is why he and his new...

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7 min