Can a single game reach a billion players? Posted byby Dean Takahashi September 30, 2011 5 min A growing number of game visionaries are saying a single game can reach a billion people. That idea has become a cause célèbre, providing a... Continue Reading 5 min
Social incubator YouWeb raises $2M Posted byby Dean Takahashi August 23, 2011 1 min Technology company incubator YouWeb has spawned incredibly successful social and mobile game companies. Now the Burlingame, Calif.-based incubator has raised $2 million in funding... Continue Reading 1 min
CrowdStar and YouWeb launch $10M fund to invest in mobile developers Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 15, 2011 2 min CrowdStar and YouWeb have launched a $10 million fund to invest in mobile social game developers. The fund is an acknowledgement that game maker... Continue Reading 2 min
iSwifter snags 500K users to play Facebook games on the iPad (updated) Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 13, 2011 4 min iSwifter, the company that can stream Flash-based Facebook games so they can be played on the iPad, said that users have downloaded the iSwifter... Continue Reading 4 min
17 reasons to attend GamesBeat 2011 Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 7, 2011 5 min We’ve been writing a lot of posts about our speakers at GamesBeat 2011. But here’s a summary of why we think this will be... Continue Reading 5 min