Widening its net, Kabam launches third-party publishing business
Kabam follows the example of other fast-growing digital firms, by publishing games made by other developers.
Missive from TED: How wooly mammoths, consumer space travel, and reading minds play out for the game industry
Fans of strategy, role-playing games, racing, action, adventure, and more are experiencing an incredible entertainment revolution, and a recent TED talk embodies this.
Dedicated handheld consoles took a beating from iOS and Android during Q4 2012
With over 20 billion games downloaded across all smartphone and tablet platforms in 2012, the mobile gaming market is shifting inexorably away from dedicated handheld consoles.
Gaming consumes a great share of dollars spent on the Google and Apple app stores
December saw an astounding increase in revenues and downloads for mobile games.
Kabam’s 2012 revenues grow 70 percent — beyond $180M
Expanding to mobile in 2012 proves to be a fantastic strategy for the privately held game developer.
Newzoo warns of a gap between investor thinking and game-market opportunities
Investors are worried about the U.S. retail game market. But overall game-industry sales are at $68 billion, growing 7 percent a year.
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.
GamesBeat weekly roundup: Disney Infinity, torsos, and violence in video games
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 acquires Vancouver studio Exploding Barrel Games
Exploding Barrel Games worked on Margaritaville and is making free-to-play mobile and social games now.
Balrogs! Kabam can’t keep No. 11 top-grossing iOS game The Hobbit live tonight
The superpopular Tolkien take-off The Hobbit: Kingdoms of Middle-earth is apparently too popular.