Mobile Games Archives - Page 111 of 113

PapayaMobile raises $18M for mobile social game platform

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 27, 2011
1 min

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...

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Mobile-focused “GamesBeat 2011” is coming on July 12-13 in SF

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 26, 2011
2 min

Disruption is happening every day in the video game business. Big companies and startups alike have adapted to the constant change that is shaking...

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VCs see tough and exciting landscape for game startups

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 19, 2011
19 min

The game industry has gotten a lot of love from venture capitalists lately. For many years, VCs invested a small amount of money into...

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Game makers: Amazon’s Android appstore terms are greedy

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 14, 2011
6 min

Amazon.com is in hot water for the pricing strategy and terms for developers in its new app store for Android games. Basically, game makers...

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Halfbrick’s Monster Dash is a case study in mobile cross promotion

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 14, 2011
2 min

Mobile game maker Halfbrick made out like a bandit with its Fruit Ninja mobile game, selling its game to 23 million players. Now its...

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Tablets are for playing games, not reading eBooks

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 10, 2011
2 min

Video games are the No. 1 activity for users of tablet computers, according to a survey by Google’s AdMob division. That’s not a huge...

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Angry Birds’ Vesterbacka: Tablets are killing console games (video)

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 16, 2011
2 min

Frequent VentureBeat readers already know that Peter Vesterbacka, who leads business development at the company behind mobile gaming hit Angry Birds, thinks that mobile...