Kabam shareholders raise $38.5M in secondary offering at $700 million valuation
The money is going to existing shareholders and employees but not the company itself.
GamesBeat weekly roundup: Don Mattrick leaves Microsoft for Zynga, Ubisoft’s uPlay service hacked
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.
Kabam lays off a ‘small number’ of employees as it moves to mobile game growth
Kabam expects revenue to top $300M in 2013 and is hiring 80 new people despite giving others pink slips.
How game publishers like Kabam and Zynga use mobile ads to get on app store leaderboards
Getting to the top of the app store charts is critical for maximizing monetization. But how do top publishers like Kabam, Zynga, and Supercell get there ... and stay there?
AppLift raises $13M for mobile-game marketing and monetization
The marketing startup helps mobile-game-and-app companies focus on the customers who are spending money.
Free-to-play game publisher Kabam opens European operations office in Berlin
The new studio will eventually employ 50 people.
EA layoffs show Darwinism at work
Free-to-play games on mobile platforms are changing gaming as we know it.
Kabam’s new $50M fund helps Japanese mobile games head West
Kabam will take a piece of revenue in exchange for localizing, marketing, and distributing Japanese games in U.S. and Europe.
Ahoy, transmedia! Warner Bros. sails into digital games (interview)
Game publishers are cutting back on their staffs as console sales drop and digital sales gradually grow. But the larger entertainment industry sees gaming as a big piece of "transmedia," or entertainment that crosses various media. That's one reason why Warner Bros. is moving into digital games.
David Ko sees mobile as critical for Zynga’s comeback in 2013 (interview)
Zynga's No. 2 executive says success in mobile will depend on delivering core franchises.