Categories Posted inin Business Amazon’s big (and expensive) game-industry ambitions Posted byby Jeff Grubb September 10, 2014 5 min The e-commerce company has stocked up on gaming talent and technology, and it is potentially the gaming publisher of the future. Continue Reading 5 min
Categories Posted inin Development Unity Technologies weighs its options, including a possible sale of the company (exclusive) Posted byby Dean Takahashi September 10, 2014 4 min The firm is working with Frank Quattrone's Qatalyst Partners to explore its options. Its asking price could be $2 billion. Continue Reading 4 min
Categories Posted inin Development Berlin’s Adjust app analytics firm raises $7.6M as it expands overseas Posted byby Dean Takahashi September 8, 2014 2 min Adjust is expanding overseas and wants to bring transparency to mobile marketing. Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business The Tech Rapture? Why Tuesday Sept. 9 is the nexus of all things high-tech Posted byby Dean Takahashi September 7, 2014 4 min Tech titans and startups alike will be competing for the spotlight on 9/9/14. A bunch of folks just didn't get the memo about Apple's event. Continue Reading 4 min
Categories Posted inin Business President of ESPN — the station that popularized TV poker — says e-sports aren’t sports Posted byby Jeff Grubb September 5, 2014 2 min ESPN shows spelling competitions and hot-dog eating, but its president doesn't sound very interested in e-sports. Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Development Developers: Win free tix to GamesBeat 2014 Posted byby GamesBeat September 5, 2014 1 min GamesBeat 2014 is the must-attend event of the fall for serious games developers, and we want to give you free tickets. Just a few of... Continue Reading 1 min
Categories Posted inin Business GamesBeat weekly roundup: Sega and Gearbox bicker, gaming’s biggest flops, and Elder Scrolls Online layoffs Posted byby Mike Minotti September 5, 2014 3 min Check out our entire week’s worth of coverage on VentureBeat’s channel for video games, GamesBeat. Continue Reading 3 min
Categories Posted inin Business The DeanBeat: A microcosm of mobile games reveals the coming death of the consoles Posted byby Dean Takahashi September 5, 2014 4 min It's not that hard to see how mobile games will bury game consoles anymore. Continue Reading 4 min
Categories Posted inin Business 4 years and 50M downloads after its debut, the Infinity Blade mobile game comes to its conclusion Posted byby Dean Takahashi September 4, 2014 5 min Chair Entertainment is preparing to move on to a new game. Continue Reading 5 min
Categories Posted inin Technology There are now at least 25 billion-dollar mobile internet companies Posted byby GamesBeat September 3, 2014 3 min Some are virtually household names, like Uber and Dropbox, Snapchat and WhatsApp. Others you may never have heard of, like GungHo and Airwatch and... Continue Reading 3 min