VCs see tough and exciting landscape for game startups
The game industry has gotten a lot of love from venture capitalists lately. For many years, VCs invested a small amount of money into...
Game makers: Amazon’s Android appstore terms are greedy
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...
Halfbrick’s Monster Dash is a case study in mobile cross promotion
Mobile game maker Halfbrick made out like a bandit with its Fruit Ninja mobile game, selling its game to 23 million players. Now its...
Tablets are for playing games, not reading eBooks
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...
Angry Birds’ Vesterbacka: Tablets are killing console games (video)
Frequent VentureBeat readers already know that Peter Vesterbacka, who leads business development at the company behind mobile gaming hit Angry Birds, thinks that mobile...
Doodle Jump scores 10 million mobile downloads for two brothers
Doodle Jump, an enormously popular game on the iPhone built by two brothers in New York, has been downloaded more than 10 million times...
GameSalad’s new CEO wants everyone to be iPhone game developers
Steve Felter, the new chief executive of GameSalad, won’t be happy until everybody can make games for the iPhone and the web. Felter (pictured)...
Gameview’s Tap Fish tops 10M downloads in a year on the App Store
When it comes to simulating aquariums on the iPhone, nobody beats Gameview Studio‘s Tap Fish game, which has been downloaded more than 10 million...
Nintendo CEO: Smartphone games are worthless
In a feisty attack on the fastest-growing sectors of the video-game industry, Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata said that smartphone games and social-media games focus...
Our obsession with mobile games is growing (exclusive survey)
Our appetite for mobile games is growing, with more than a third of U.S. and U.K. adults saying that they play mobile games, according...