Investors weigh in on falling game-startup valuations
Developer Zynga's collapse has taken its toll on game-company valuations. The topic came up at the recent investor panel at the YetiZen game accelerator.
Heyzap debuts leaderboards to show who dominates mobile games among your friends
Heyzap is jumping on the opportunity created by the demise of OpenFeint.
Developers feel burned by Gree pulling OpenFeint’s plug in December
Gree purchased OpenFeint in April 2011. Now, it's cutting off the servers and potentially breaking several games in the process.
YouWeb incubator founder launches Q&A forum for tech entrepreneurs
Peter Relan can't clone himself. But he can share his hard-earned advice for technology entrepreneurs, and he will do so at the new web site FounderQuorom.
Benchmark’s Mitch Lasky: Game publishers will evolve or die (interview)
What does one of the world's most successful and active game investors think of the future of the medium?
Jason Citron’s Phoenix Guild prepares for the post-PC world of gaming
Jason Citron's latest venture, Phoenix Guild, lands funding, plans to build hardcore social games for tablets in the "post-PC world."
GamesBeat Weekly Roundup
If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best games stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.
Japan’s Gree launches first U.S. mobile social game, Zombie Jombie
It’s just a cute little zombie game, but it could be the start of something big. Gree has become a billion-dollar company in Japan...
The9’s Game Zone enables mobile game discovery in China (exclusive)
The9, an online gaming company with a long history in China, said it has scored good results making games more discoverable in the China...
Exclusive: PlayPhone launches its smartphone social gaming network
PlayPhone is formally launching its smartphone mobile social gaming network today after signing up more than 3 million users worldwide. I guess you could...