Bionic Panda raises seed funding for Android mobile games
Bionic Panda Games has raised seed financing to develop mobile games for Google’s Android operating system, the company announced today. Not surprisingly, Google Ventures is...
DeanBeat: Game companies went on a $2.8B buying spree in 2011
The social and mobile games gold rush inspired lots of investments in 2011, as venture capitalists tried to find the next Zynga. But the...
Zynga hires away EA’s top mobile and social executive Barry Cottle
Social gaming giant Zynga has hired Electronic Arts’ top mobile and social executive Barry Cottle as Zynga’s new executive vice president of corporate and...
Google creating its own social game using Google Maps
Watch out, Facebook. Google is making its own game for Google+ … and it involves maps. Yesterday, the company released a video of the...
DeanBeat: Game companies raised a record-breaking $1.54B in 2011
Game fundings destroyed the record book for fundings this year as 145 companies raised more than $1.540 billion in 2011, not counting initial public...
Zynga launches Scramble With Friends for iPhone
Some of the most popular mobile games are simple ones. With that in mind, Zynga is launching Scramble With Friends on the iPhone and...
Zynga launches Hidden Chronicles game in an untapped treasure-hunting genre
Your Uncle Geoffrey has been killed, and the secret lies in the elegant estate where he lived. Your job is to uncover the secrets...
The DeanBeat: From the Supreme Court to Anonymous, 2011 was a transformational year for games
Skyrim was the “most played” game of the year, and we voted Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception our Game of the Year. But if you...
The best GamesBeat stories of 2011
The year is coming to an end and we agree with the observation that 2011 was a historic year for the game industry. Here...
2012 predictions: It’s doom & gloom for Amazon, RIM and Zynga
The predictions I made for 2011 turned out pretty well, since I framed things like any good fortune teller or horoscope would have done....