EA goes after CityVille with today’s launch of SimCity Social
In a bid to unseat Zynga’s CityVille game on Facebook, Electronic Arts has launched SimCity Social today. The new city-building simulation game represents the culmination of...
Meet our all-star GamesBeat 2012 moderators
We’re pleased to announce the all-star moderators for our annual GamesBeat 2012 conference next week, July 10-11 in San Francisco. Here’s the list in order of...
Zynga ‘unleashes’ bigwig Mark Pincus after big product unveiling
Zynga chief executive Mark Pincus was quiet for the past couple of months as Facebook went public and Zynga geared up for its big...
GamesBeat weekly roundup: Dawnguard, Zynga Unleashed, and Sega’s ongoing decline
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.
The DeanBeat: Zynga battles to dominate the red ocean, not the blue
Will the red ocean strategy work for Zynga? The sharks are in the water as the social game giant goes head-on against competitors.
Zynga Partners for Mobile showcases an eclectic mix of gameplay experiences
Zynga Partners for Mobile already shows promise with its wide variety of games and genres.
Pocket Gems launches All Talk voice-based mobile game
With hundreds of thousands of mobile games available on smartphones, innovating isn’t that easy. But Pocket Gems hopes to stand out from the crowd...
Pamela Anderson takes on Zynga with BamPoker game
Zynga has the biggest online poker game in the world, but actress Pamela Anderson has the biggest…well, a bigger name. So she is entering...
Zynga’s big Unleashed event strikes out with investors
Investors are a skeptical lot. They showed that today after Zynga debuted a bunch of new games and services for the next generation of...
Earn real recipes while playing Zygna’s new game, ChefVille
Zygna's first foray into the restaurant sim gives you real recipes and puts a spin on the old idea of borrowing "a cuppa" from your neighbors.