| Date | Title | Description |
| 10.10.2015 | Introducing our GamesBeat Online schedule | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Above: Doki Tops, CEO of Utomik
Image Credit: Utomik
We’re going to keep our Twitch livestream going during break times at our GamesBea... |
| 08.10.2015 | Panel to explore the super-geek gaming future | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Where is gaming technology going?
Above: Seamus Blackley of Innovative Leisure
We’ve had tantalizing glimpses of the future with demos ... |
| 07.10.2015 | Here’s one of our mystery speakers for GamesBeat 2015 | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
We’re revealing today that Sinjin Bain, CEO of Maxplay, will be one of our mystery guest speakers at GamesBeat 2015.
OK, so it’s not mu... |
| 07.10.2015 | Here’s one of our mystery speakers for GamesBeat 2015 | We’re revealing today that Sinjin Bain, CEO of Maxplay, will be one of our mystery guest speakers at GamesBeat 2015.
OK, so it’s not much of a mystery anymore. But Bain has an interesting company. And we’ve still got one more mystery speake... |
| 06.10.2015 | GamesBeat 2015 addresses how to play the branding game right | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
There’s been a mad rush into brands in the past year, thanks in no small part to the success of celebrity-branded Kim Kardashian: Holly... |
| 06.10.2015 | GamesBeat 2015 addresses how to play the branding game right | There’s been a mad rush into brands in the past year, thanks in no small part to the success of celebrity-branded Kim Kardashian: Hollywood, the mobile game from Glu. Niccolo De Masi, the chief executive of Glu, will talk about that in a fi... |
| 05.10.2015 | GamesBeat 2015 has a big focus on diversity and gaming’s women leaders | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
We’re happy to say that we’ll have more women speakers than ever before at GamesBeat 2015, and the topic of diversity will come up ofte... |
| 05.10.2015 | GamesBeat 2015 has a big focus on diversity and gaming’s women leaders | We’re happy to say that we’ll have more women speakers than ever before at GamesBeat 2015, and the topic of diversity will come up often. We consider these 17 all-star women to be one of the attractions that will make our conference unique ... |
| 03.10.2015 | Meet the 27 all-star moderators for GamesBeat 2015 | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
I’m very proud to introduce a cast of characters that you won’t find together at any other event. Besides myself, the moderators of Gam... |
| 03.10.2015 | Meet the 27 all-star moderators for GamesBeat 2015 | I’m very proud to introduce a cast of characters that you won’t find together at any other event. Besides myself, the moderators of GamesBeat 2015 include the following people.
As you can tell from the picture of the guy below, our moderato... |
| 01.10.2015 | GamesBeat 2015 explores the future of user-generated content | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
When Microsoft bought Minecraft maker Mojang for $2.5 billion a year ago, it was a ringing endorsement for user-generated content. Now ... |
| 30.09.2015 | GamesBeat 2015 tackles how to use data to improve user acquisition and boost monetization | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
It’s all about data. If you want to win the monetization and user acquisition wars, you have to be armed with the right information.
Ab... |
| 30.09.2015 | GamesBeat 2015 tackles how to use data to improve user acquisition and boost monetization | It’s all about data. If you want to win the monetization and user acquisition wars, you have to be armed with the right information.
Above: John Koetsier
We’ll explore this topic with our breakout session entitled How to use data to improve... |
| 29.09.2015 | GamesBeat 2015 tackles how to crack the Asian markets | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
China is becoming an essential market for game companies, as it has become the world’s largest gaming market. South Korea, Japan, and t... |
| 29.09.2015 | GamesBeat 2015 tackles how to crack the Asian markets | China is becoming an essential market for game companies, as it has become the world’s largest gaming market. South Korea, Japan, and the rest of Asia are also strategic regions. But how do you crack into it?
Above: Jeff Hilbert of DDM
Imag... |
| 28.09.2015 | GamesBeat panel examines how to raise money after the gaming boom | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Raising money is a big concern for everybody in the game ecosystem, and it isn’t getting any easier. ‘
The game industry has gone throu... |
| 22.09.2015 | GamesBeat 2015 puts a lens on mobile, motion capture, and virtual reality | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
We’re excited to confirm the makeup of the upcoming GamesBeat 2015 panel on virtual reality. Richard Marks of Sony PlayStation Magic La... |
| 21.09.2015 | Game Insight CEO Anatoly Ropotov brings an Eastern European insight to GamesBeat 2015 | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Anatoly Ropotov, the chief executive officer at Game Insight, was recently confirmed as a speaker for GamesBeat 2015. A 15-year industr... |
| 18.09.2015 | GamesBeat 2015 features two mystery speakers | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
We’ll have somewhere around 80 speakers and moderators at GamesBeat 2015. They’re the best and the brightest of the game industry. We’v... |
| 18.09.2015 | Lionsgate’s Peter Levin talks the intersection of movies and games at GamesBeat 2015 | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Long-time entertainment industry kingmaker Peter Levin, now president of interactive ventures and games at Lionsgate, will join the ran... |
| 17.09.2015 | Resolution Games CEO and ex-Candy Crush dev Tommy Palm hits GamesBeat 2015’s stage | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Tommy Palm, the CEO of Swedish game development studio Resolution Games, is the latest industry leader confirmed to speak at GamesBeat ... |
| 16.09.2015 | Industry pundit Michael Pachter confirmed as GamesBeat speaker | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
In addition to his duties as a moderator at GamesBeat 2015, research analyst and managing director at Wedbush Securities Michael Pachte... |
| 10.09.2015 | Epic Games graphics guru Tim Sweeney headlines GamesBeat 2015 | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
It gives me great pleasure to announce that Tim Sweeney, the chief executive of Epic Games and a game graphics pioneer for 25 years, wi... |
| 10.09.2015 | Epic Games graphics guru Tim Sweeney headlines GamesBeat 2015 | It gives me great pleasure to announce that Tim Sweeney, the chief executive of Epic Games and a game graphics pioneer for 25 years, will be a premier speaker at our upcoming GamesBeat 2015 conference.
He’ll do a fireside chat with me about... |
| 04.09.2015 | Disney’s Chris Heatherly to speak on mobile gaming at GamesBeat 2015 | Chris Heatherly, head of Disney Interactive’s mobile and social games business as well as Disney Club Penguin, is our newest speaker at GamesBeat 2015. He is the latest among the who’s who of gaming who will join our event at the Grand Hyat... |
| 04.09.2015 | Disney’s Chris Heatherly to speak on mobile gaming at GamesBeat 2015 | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Chris Heatherly, head of Disney Interactive’s mobile and social games business as well as Disney Club Penguin, is our newest speaker at... |
| 03.09.2015 | Zynga’s Mark Skaggs to speak at GamesBeat 2015 | Mark Skaggs, the co-creator of hit social games like FarmVille and Empires & Allies at Zynga, is our newest speaker at GamesBeat 2015. The senior vice president at San Francisco’s Zynga is the latest to join our event at the Grand Hyatt... |
| 03.09.2015 | Zynga’s Mark Skaggs to speak at GamesBeat 2015 | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Mark Skaggs, the co-creator of hit social games like FarmVille and Empires & Allies at Zynga, is our newest speaker at GamesBeat 20... |
| 02.09.2015 | GamesBeat 2015 adds Nexon’s chief Owen Mahoney as a speaker | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Our latest GamesBeat 2015 speaker is Owen Mahoney, the president and chief executive of Nexon, the Asian online gaming giant that has c... |
| 02.09.2015 | GamesBeat 2015 adds Nexon’s chief Owen Mahoney as a speaker | Our latest GamesBeat 2015 speaker is Owen Mahoney, the president and chief executive of Nexon, the Asian online gaming giant that has created titles such as Dungeon Fighter and Dirty Bomb. He’s one more among the cast of characters from gam... |
| 01.09.2015 | GamesBeat 2015 snares Magic Leap’s Graeme Devine as a new speaker | Our latest speaker, Graeme Devine looks like a character from Game of Thrones. The chief creative officer and vice president of games at Magic Leap is one more among the cast of characters from gaming who will talk at our GamesBeat 2015 con... |
| 01.09.2015 | GamesBeat 2015 snares Magic Leap’s Graeme Devine as a new speaker | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Our latest speaker, Graeme Devine looks like a character from Game of Thrones. The chief creative officer and vice president of games a... |
| 24.07.2015 | Our latest slate of speakers for GamesBeat 2015 | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Winter is coming. OK, well, it’s still a long way away, but we’re busy organizing our GamesBeat 2015 conference at the Grand Hyatt Unio... |
| 10.07.2015 | Our next slate of kings and queens (er, speakers) for the GamesBeat 2015 event | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Our next must-attend gaming event is the GamesBeat 2015 conference at the Grand Hyatt Union Square on Oct. 12 and Oct. 13 in San Franci... |
| 10.07.2015 | Our next slate of kings and queens (er, speakers) for the GamesBeat 2015 event | Our next must-attend gaming event is the GamesBeat 2015 conference at the Grand Hyatt Union Square on Oct. 12 and Oct. 13 in San Francisco. You can sign up for it now.
We had a wonderful GamesBeat Summit event in May. But that was a more in... |
| 29.05.2014 | Tizen Association announces 37 new members for their Partner Program | The Tizen Association today announced an additional 37 new partners that will be joining the Tizen Partner Program, which was initially launched at the Tizen Developer Summit in Korea, November 2013, and now stands at a total of 88 partners... |
| 31.07.2013 | Sprint will adopt PlayPhone’s mobile-social games portal | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
PlayPhone is announcing today that Sprint has agreed to adopt its social gaming portal. The move is a big endorsement for PlayPhone’s b... |
| 31.07.2013 | Sprint will adopt PlayPhone’s mobile-social games portal | PlayPhone is announcing today that Sprint has agreed to adopt its social gaming portal. The move is a big endorsement for PlayPhone’s bid to become a key provider of mobile-social game services that help consumers find games and developers ... |
| 26.03.2013 | Verizon launches games portal using PlayPhone technology | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Verizon is preparing to launch a game portal (pictured above) on its network that uses technology from social mobile gaming platform Pl... |
| 19.03.2012 | PlayPhone enables instant multiplayer across Android and iOS devices (exclusive) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
PlayPhone is announcing a technology today that will enable instant multiplayer gaming across iOS and Android devices. The technology w... |
| 16.03.2012 | PlayPhone buys mobile marketing firm SocialHour for $51.5M (exclusive) | PlayPhone has acquired mobile social marketing firm SocialHour for $51.5 million in stock, VentureBeat has learned.
Ron Czerny, chief executive of PlayPhone, confirmed the non-cash transaction in an interview with VentureBeat. The deal will... |
| 16.03.2012 | PlayPhone buys mobile marketing firm SocialHour for $51.5M (exclusive) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
PlayPhone has acquired mobile social marketing firm SocialHour for $51.5 million in stock, VentureBeat has learned.
Ron Czerny, chief e... |
| 13.12.2011 | Exclusive: PlayPhone launches its smartphone social gaming network | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
PlayPhone is formally launching its smartphone mobile social gaming network today after signing up more than 3 million users worldwide.... |
| 13.12.2011 | Exclusive: PlayPhone launches its smartphone social gaming network | PlayPhone is formally launching its smartphone mobile social gaming network today after signing up more than 3 million users worldwide. I guess you could say it’s a little behind in making that announcement, as it has so many users already.... |
| 09.02.2011 | What you need to know - 02/09/11 | Facebook is moving from Palo Alto to Menlo Park; Visa agreed to pay $190 million for PlaySpan
Bubbli, a stealth startup with grand ambitions to change photography on smartphones, has raised around $2 million in a funding round led by August... |
| 08.02.2011 | PlayPhone launches $10 million marketing fund | Mobile social gaming companies can now benefit from PlayPhone's many international marketing tools
Mobile entertainment company PlayPhone announced Tuesday the launch of a $10 million marketing fund for mobile social game developers.
“The 2... |
| 09.09.2008 | Playphone and Tapatap Utilize DeviceAnywhere for Mobile Games Development | (CTIA: San Francisco, CA) September 9, 2008 – Playphone and Tapatap, two major international mobile games publishers, have chosen DeviceAnywhere to help them test and develop their mobile games applications on actual devices, from remote lo... |
| 13.06.2008 | Sign Up To All New Splash Mobile And Get Leona Lewis And Madonna Ringtones | LONDON, JUNE 2008: Anyone wanting to customise their mobile phones now has access to the latest music, games and videos thanks to the new Splash Mobile website at http.//uk.splashmobile.com.
Splash, a part of the PlayPhone company, offers c... |
| 12.06.2008 | PlayPhone and Cellufun Partnership: Good for Mobile Gamers | PlayPhone, operator of the largest network of mobile content destinations in North America, has formed a marketing partnership with Cellufun, the world’s largest mobile gaming portal. PlayPhone now has access to over 5.5 million monthly uni... |
| 07.05.2008 | PlayPhone acquires Pitch Entertainment Group for European mobile expansion | Mobile entertainment provider PlayPhone is announcing today that it has acquired Pitch Entertainment Group as part of its global expansion. The purchase price wasn’t disclosed.
San Jose, Calif.-based PlayPhone aggregates mobile content and ... |
| 19.09.2007 | PlayPhone Gets Platinum Studios’ Archive | If you are a fan of comics and graphic novels, you may be excited to learn that PlayPhone now offers comics, ringtones and cell phone wall paper from Platinum Studios’ archive, the world’s largest collection of independent comic characters.... |
| 03.08.2007 | Rush to Get Chris Tucker Mouth Off | Time to “rush” out and get Chris Tucker mouthing off, as only Chris Tucker can of course. In anticipation of the August 10 release of Rush Hour 3, PlayPhone.com is releasing “truetone” ringers that are recorded lines form the movie. These a... |
| 10.05.2007 | Roundup: Mingling at Sequoia, Kevin Rose’s latest, NataliePortman.TV and more | The latest action:
Sequoia keeps it in the family –The Indian arm of high-powered venture capital firm Sequoia Capital recently led a $7m round for Minglebox, an Indian social network. Minglebox is led by Kavita Iyer, the wife of one of the... |
| 10.05.2007 | PlayPhone raises $18.75M for easy but expensive mobile content | PlayPhone, a San Jose company that lets you download mobile games, ringtones and other content from the Web, has raised $18.75 million in a third round of financing.
Scale Venture Partners led the round, which included existing investors Ca... |
| 29.08.2006 | Valley VCs are on fire: Lots of deals, including bloated Force10, PlayPhone & Groxis… | Folks, here’s a quick summary of the numerous deals going down. We’ve been posting slower than usual lately; we’re doing maintenance. Back to full speed shortly….
Force10 Networks, the San Jose provider of latest-generation network and swit... |
