Heyzap finds a profitable business in showing targeted advertising to mobile social gamers
Heyzap makes money by showing ads to users based on their own personal gaming tastes.
Yahoo and Japan’s DeNA expand PC social gaming alliance to mobile devices
Smartphones and tablets are gaining attention in Japan, and this deal should allow both companies to take advantage of this trend.
Founders leave DeNA’s Ngmoco mobile gaming division
The mobile revolution in games isn't over yet, but Ngmoco's founders have left their parent company DeNA.
Gree grows North American mobile game revenue by 38% in Q2
Gree grew its Q2 revenues by 38 percent over Q1 in North America.
EA goes after CityVille with today’s launch of SimCity Social
In a bid to unseat Zynga’s CityVille game on Facebook, Electronic Arts has launched SimCity Social today. The new city-building simulation game represents the culmination of...
Crowdstar teams up with Gree for social mobile games
Shifting from Facebook to mobile, Crowdstar is announcing today that it will publish games through Gree‘s worldwide mobile social network. The alliance isn’t a...
Bicycle card game owner to launch Zeniz mobile social casino games platform (exclusive)
Online casino games are hot. So much so that we’re renaming our site Casino GamesBeat. Just kidding, but The United States Playing Card Company...
Kontagent launches its kSuite DataMine analytics tool for monetizing mobile games
Kontagent is one of the companies that is rich with big data as it provides analytics services to more than 1,000 social and mobile apps...
The Tap Lab raises $550K to fund location-based mobile games
The Tap Lab has raised $550,000 to finance mobile games that are layered on top of real-world locations. The idea is to create experiences...
PlayPhone buys mobile marketing firm SocialHour for $51.5M (exclusive)
PlayPhone has acquired mobile social marketing firm SocialHour for $51.5 million in stock, VentureBeat has learned. Ron Czerny, chief executive of PlayPhone, confirmed the...