The DeanBeat: After Zynga’s crash, game investments dive 42 percent in 2012
Game investments were red hot in the first half, but slowed after Zynga's sinking market value crushed valuations.
Riot Games’s path to blockbuster expansion: League of Legends eSport tournaments
Riot Games hopes to turn its hit game League of Legends into a household name by dramatically expanding a professional-gaming league that rewards players with big prizes and recognition.
IGDA chief Gordon Bellamy joins Tencent
Gordon Bellamy resigns from the largest game developer association, the IGDA, for a position with China's Tencent.
GamesBeat weekly roundup: Tom Hanks, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater HD, game startups in Estonia, and more
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.
China’s Tencent marches to the West in search of kick-ass games (interviews)
GamesBeat's Dean Takahashi interviews Tencent's David Wallerstein about its approach to games in China and its investments in Western game developers.
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...
Activision Blizzard partners with Tencent to take Call of Duty Online to China
Activision Blizzard has partnered with Chinese Internet portal Tencent to launch Call of Duty Online in China. The long-term partnership brings two of gaming’s juggernauts together....
Take-Two aims big in China with free-to-play NBA online game with Tencent
Take-Two Interactive has launched its big online-games experiment in China today with the public beta test of its free-to-play NBA 2K Online game on...
GamesBeat weekly roundup: Xbox 720, 3DS XL, and surviving the zombie apocalypse
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.
China’s Tencent nabs a minority stake in Epic Games
China’s most valuable Internet company, Tencent, is continuing its invasion into the U.S. gaming market in a big way today. Epic Games, maker of...