Categories Posted inin Business Electronic Arts buys PopCap for $750M Posted byby GamesBeat July 12, 2011 2 min Supergiant video game publisher Electronic Arts has acquired casual game maker PopCap for $650 million in cash and $100 million in stock. The deal... Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Gaming Culture Nielsen: games are the most popular smartphone apps Posted byby GamesBeat July 7, 2011 1 min More than half of all smartphone owners played games and racked up about 8 hours of play time each month in the second quarter... Continue Reading 1 min
Categories Posted inin Development 17 reasons to attend GamesBeat 2011 Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 7, 2011 5 min We’ve been writing a lot of posts about our speakers at GamesBeat 2011. But here’s a summary of why we think this will be... Continue Reading 5 min
Categories Posted inin Gaming Culture And we’re signing up even more great GamesBeat speakers Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 3, 2011 3 min Today we’re revealing the eleventh group of speakers for our third annual GamesBeat 2011 conference. Our newest batch of speakers illustrates the wide variety of... Continue Reading 3 min
Categories Posted inin Gaming Culture Rumor factory churns on: EA now potential buyer for casual game maker PopCap Posted byby GamesBeat June 23, 2011 2 min Game publisher Electronic Arts is the latest rumored suitor looking to buy casual games maker PopCap for more than $1 billion, according to sources... Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Gaming Culture Updated: Is PopCap being bought for $1B? Posted byby GamesBeat June 22, 2011 3 min PopCap, a game developer that focuses on casual quick-hit style games like Plants vs. Zombies and Bejeweled, might be in talks to be acquired... Continue Reading 3 min