Tencent leads $25 million round for Avakin Life maker Lockwood Publishing
Tencent has led a $25 million investment in Lockwood Publishing, the maker of the 3D virtual world Avakin Life. It’s a bet that makers...
Online gambling firm 888 clinches deal to buy Bwin.party for $1.4B
Online gambling firm 888 said it would buy peer Bwin.party Digital Entertainment in a cash and stock deal valued at about 898 million pounds ($1.40 billion).
Loot Entertainment moves out of Sony's PlayStation Home to become its own game studio
Though it doesn’t work under the PlayStation brand, Loot Entertainment is emerging as yet another weapon in Sony’s ongoing war for indies.
Condemned: PlayStation Home is coming to an end everywhere
After announcing the closure of Home in Japan, Sony is now confirming it is shutting down the service worldwide.
Sony is finally bulldozing its decrepit, abandoned PlayStation Home in Japan
Sony plans to hold a big event to mark the end of PlayStation Home, but the service's fate in the Americas is still unknown.
Social networking will win the console wars
Integration of social tools, and fostering online community may be the most influential factors in which of the two consoles take the superior position in terms of market share and consumer loyalty in the eighth generation console war.
Lockwood Publishing will debut 3D avatars in Avakin Poker (exclusive)
The developer of PlayStation Home's Sodium series has expanded to make games and 3D avatars on mobile platforms.
GamesBeat Weekly Roundup
Here are some of the stories that ran on GamesBeat this week. We’re running more articles exclusively in the GamesBeat section of VentureBeat, particularly...
Sony readies three new freemium PlayStation Home games
Sony is announcing three upcoming titles for its PlayStation Home virtual world for hardcore gamers on the Sony Entertainment Network (the former PlayStation Network)....
Sony redesigns PlayStation Home as a social gaming hub
Sony is showing off a major redesign of PlayStation Home. The site originally launched in 2008 as a virtual world and is now becoming a...