Starcraft developer Blizzard interested in making games for iPhone, iPad
Activision-Blizzard’s Greg Street, a lead designer behind the company’s highly successful World of Warcraft online game, told Eurogamer that his company was interested in...
Rumor factory churns on: EA now potential buyer for casual game maker PopCap
Game publisher Electronic Arts is the latest rumored suitor looking to buy casual games maker PopCap for more than $1 billion, according to sources...
Check out the latest speakers for GamesBeat 2011
Today we’re revealing the third set of speakers for our third annual GamesBeat 2011 conference. Our slate of speakers will include Bing Gordon, partner...
Will zombie and jewel games take PopCap to an IPO?
PopCap Games has been a consistent winner when it comes to making great games for casual audiences, or those who don’t consider themselves to...
Howard Marks’ Gamzee will focus on social-mobile HTML5 games
Howard Marks has developed pretty good cred in video games. Over the course of 25 years, he helped revive an ailing Activision, which is...
Funzio raises $20M for social and mobile games
Funzio, a developer of social and mobile games such as Facebook’s Crime City, said it has raised $20 million in a first round of...
Chinese game industry to hit $5.8B in 2011 thanks to social game growth
The Chinese game industry is expected to grow 21 percent to $5.8 billion in 2011, thanks to continued growth of the social game market,...
King.com launches its first cross-platform mobile game (exclusive)
King.com grew up in the age of web portals, offering skill-based games for players who liked to play casual tournament games. But this is...
PapayaMobile raises $18M for mobile social game platform
PapayaMobile, the Chinese mobile social game platform startup, has raised $18 million in a second round of funding. It’s another sign that mobile gaming...
Mobile-focused “GamesBeat 2011” is coming on July 12-13 in SF
Disruption is happening every day in the video game business. Big companies and startups alike have adapted to the constant change that is shaking...