GamesBeat Weekly Roundup
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.
YouWeb and StartEngine incubators to hold Double Demo Day for 20 startups
Incubators YouWeb and StartEngine are combining their efforts to host a joint demo day for 20 startups funded by the two. The event brings together a couple of the most interesting personalities in tech funding: Peter Relan, chairman of YouWeb, and Howard Marks, founder of Los Angeles-based StartEngine.
Spaceport.io raises investment from YouWeb and BBC Worldwide
Spaceport.io has been trying for years to create a solid cross-platform mobile game development technology that enables a game to be written once and...
Peter Relan on how to get two iPhone games into the top 25
Peter Relan wants to build a mobile gaming empire, one app at a time. The chief executive of CrowdStar and chairman of game incubator YouWeb...
The DeanBeat: GamesBeat 2012 in July will focus on disruption, change, and innovation
We’ve unveiled our first speakers and other details for our fourth annual game conference, GamesBeat 2012. Our roster of speakers includes Will Wright, creator...
The DeanBeat: Game Dojos accelerator will help foster even more game startups
We’ve seen an explosion in game startups in the past few years. Zynga and Nexon have gone public, an indication that we could be...
iSwifter’s Rover browser aims to change classroom learning
Startup iSwifter said that its Rover Browser for education has seen a quick start in downloads and rapid adoption among schools and teachers who...
YouWeb’s Pluto Games raises $500K for tablet-based music education games
Pluto Games is spinning out of game incubator YouWeb today, raising $500,000 in seed money in the process. Pluto Games will use the money...
Sibblingz exploits Adobe’s retreat from mobile Flash with Spaceport 3.0
Sibblingz, the maker of a cross-platform game engine, is exploiting Adobe’s retreat from the mobile Flash plug-in business with the launch of the Spaceport...
CrowdStar’s Starfund targets mobile game developers with $250K investments (exclusive)
CrowdStar‘s $10 million StarFund investment fund has made investments in six new mobile game startups for about $250,000 each. The first fruits from that...