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.
Skylanders is bigger than Angry Birds, says Activision Blizzard
Skylanders, the new game and toy franchise from Activision Blizzard, is exceeding expectations across platforms.
Milestone for a mobile blockbuster: Angry Birds hits 1 billion downloads
Rovio announced today that Angry Birds has hit 1 billion downloads. That’s a huge milestone for a game that didn’t exist as a brand...
Angry Birds creator Rovio says merchandising is 30 percent of revenue
Angry Birds creator Rovio Entertainment reported today that merchandising and licensing revenues accounted for about 30 percent of its sales in 2011.
Angry Birds Space hits 50M downloads in 35 days
Angry Birds Space has been downloaded more than 50 million times in its first 35 days on the market, according to publisher Rovio. That...
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.
Two Angry Birds leaders leave the nest to start Boomlagoon (exclusive)
Antti Stén, the lead server architect for the original Angry Birds, and Tuomas Erikoinen, lead artist, have left Rovio to create a new game studio called Boomlagoon.
Funzio looking to raise $50M at $350M valuation for mobile games
Don’t say mobile games aren’t gritty. Funzio, the mobile gaming company behind popular iOS games Crime City and Modern War, is looking to raise...
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...
Can we panic now? — Core gaming has a problem
THQ layoffs, Sega cancellations, and Sony studio closures caused last week to be one of the worst in memory for the gaming industry. Compare that to mobile darling OMGPOP which was sold for $210 million based on the strength of one game. It seems like one side of the market is on its way down, while the other side has nothing but growth ahead of it, but that isn't necessarily the case.