Storm8’s journey from a Facebook gaming startup to a $300 million acquisition
Storm8‘s years of making mobile games paid off this week when Stillfront Group agreed to buy the Redwood City, California-based company for $300 million...
Why it’s hard to go from building games on console to mobile
It’s exceedingly hard to take a hit game franchise on consoles and make it successful on mobile devices. Pokémon Go has made that seem easy, but...
Is the world really flat when it comes to making games?
What are the ingredients necessary to turn a region into a hub for great game development? That’s a good question, and it’s an economic...
Storm8 launches Monopoly Bingo! mobile game in deal with Hasbro
Mobile gamers are embracing brands, so Storm8 is serving up a big one for them.
Storm8 wants to become a household name in mobile games (interview)
Though it has 40 mobile games, 250 employees, and 50 million monthly active players, the publisher is still considered a bit of a small fry among the familiar mobile game industry leaders like King, GungHo Entertainment, and Supercell.
Zynga departures finish new CEO's complete makeover of the management team
Travis Boatman, mobile game exec, and Terence Fung, biz dev guy, are the latest to leave.
Reflections on GamesBeat 2011 and the road ahead in mobile games
Our well-attended GamesBeat 2011 conference took place this week, and here’s what you missed. As I noted in a preview story on mobile games, the conference was...
Meet our all-star panel of judges for our game start-up contest, Who’s Got Game?
VentureBeat is delighted to announce our all-star panel of judges for our third-annual Who’s Got Game? contest. This contest selects the best game start-up...