Newzoo warns of a gap between investor thinking and game-market opportunities
Investors are worried about the U.S. retail game market. But overall game-industry sales are at $68 billion, growing 7 percent a year.
The DeanBeat: Game acquisitions rise 23 percent to $3.4B in 2012
The game industry set a new record for the money spent on acquisitions, but the number of deals dropped.
How Rick Thompson became the über investor for gaming (interview)
The co-founder of Playdom is funding game companies; he thinks Zynga's chief executive ought to give up his supervoting rights.
King.com’s Candy Crush Saga beats Zynga with top social-mobile game
For the first time in years, Zynga does not have the top game in daily users on Facebook.
FarmVille 2 has 17 players in the Vatican and other ‘big data’ trivia
About 350M crops are harvested every day in Zynga's most popular social game.
GamesBeat weekly roundup: THQ is bankrupt, Zynga shuts down 11 games
If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best video game stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.
Top game controversies of 2012
From game violence to sex chat, game companies got into hot water in 2012.
The end is near: 11 Zynga games are victims of cost-cutting
Zynga is shutting down 11 games soon as part of a cost-cutting measure, according to TechCrunch. The free-to-play games are either unpopular or are...
Here’s the scorecard on our 2012 predictions for the game industry
Before you read our forecast for 2013, take a look at how we did on last year's predictions.