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...
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...