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...
Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot embraces disruption, new business models and new platforms (interview)
Yves Guillemot, the chief executive of French game publisher Ubisoft, belives that traditional game companies will be able to meet the challenge of the...
Why China’s game business will hit $20B by 2016 (exclusive interview)
China has one of the most dynamic and unique game markets in the world. Rising from virtual non-existence a decade ago, and surviving a...
The DeanBeat: GamesBeat 2012 to focus on crossover strategies
GamesBeat 2012 is going to be all about crossover strategies. The game industry as we know it is changing. We’re seeing established companies cross...
Meteor Entertainment raises $10M to fund Hawken online mech game (exclusive)
Meteor Entertainment has raised $10 million in a bid to launch a downloadable online game called Hawken. Aimed at hardcore gamers who battle each other...
EA and Tencent to take The Sims Social game to China
Electronic Arts and Chinese social network Tencent are taking EA’s The Sims Social game to China. Beijing-based Tencent, which has hundreds of millions of...
Call it GlobalVille: Zynga to launch version of CityVille on Tencent’s network in China
In its biggest diversification beyond Facebook to date, game maker Zynga is announcing today that it has partnered with social network Tencent in China and...
Mobile social network Mig33 launches game developer platform
Mobile social network Mig33 is launching a program for game developers to create games for its platform that reaches more than 50 million users.....