Papaya Mobile’s new ad-exchange program could lure new developers to the platform (interview)
Chief executive and cofounder Si Shen discusses Papaya Mobile's new mobile traffic exchange, AppFlood.
DeNA’s Neil Young: You have to ‘iterate the f*** out of your products’ to win (interview)
Will DeNA's success in Japan, where mobile gaming has exploded, repeat itself in the U.S. as smartphone and tablet games come to the fore? And will DeNA-Ngmoco be able to outmaneuver rivals such as Zynga, Electronic Arts, and Gree?
17 reasons to go to GamesBeat 2012
We’ve been writing a lot of posts about our speakers at GamesBeat 2012. But here’s a summary of why we think this is the...
The road ahead in gaming: Welcome to the Crossover Era
Crossing over from an existing market to an emerging one is what our GameBeat 2012 conference is all about. We're seeing this trend play out in every segment of games.
Meet our all-star GamesBeat 2012 moderators
We’re pleased to announce the all-star moderators for our annual GamesBeat 2012 conference next week, July 10-11 in San Francisco. Here’s the list in order of...
DeNA’s Rage of Bahamut hits the top of the App Store
One of the biggest strategic shifts happening in gaming today is the investment that Japanese mobile social gaming network giants — Gree and DeNA...
Kixeye expands to mobile games, creates Australian studio
Kixeye has been one of a handful of large game developers that has been so successful on Facebook that it has never expanded beyond...
Gree launches second U.S. social mobile game, Alien Family
Gree made a splash last week with the launch of its first mobile social game for the U.S. market, Zombie Jombie. Now the Japanese...
Neil Young’s path to the multibillion-dollar mobile social game market (interview)
Neil Young sold his San Francisco startup Ngmoco to Japan’s DeNA for $403 million in the fall of 2010. And that was just the...
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...