The game industry as we know it is changing, and with that change we’re seeing massive disruption, consolidation, innovation, and the arrival of big money across all platforms. Industry leaders are moving from console games to online, from social games to mobile, and from the web to Facebook and vice versa. GamesBeat 2012 — VentureBeat’s fourth annual…
This week in San Francisco, VentureBeat held their co-located GamesBeat and MobileBeat conferences. While topics such as the future of shopping, payments, and social networking on mobile devices dominated the discussion, gamification was given dedicated time in the program, and gamification-related subjects such as loyalty and CRM were widely mentioned.
GamesBeat 2011 is VentureBeat’s third annual conference on disruption in the video game market. This year’s event, taking place on July 12-13 in San Francisco, will focus on the intersection of games and mobile, two of the hottest markets in the technology sector which have shown promise for engaging players in interesting and innovative ways. Friends…
Bunchball’s gamification campaign with Playboy digital has shown promising results. According to an interview with Bunchball’s chief product officer Rajat Paharia in VentureBeat, “We’ve seen huge growth in gamification over the past year and we’re thrilled to see that translate into genuine customer demand.”
Note: if you weren’t able to get into the inaugural GSummit, visit our streaming partner, Fora.tv and get 30 days of unlimited access to content now. Thanks to everyone who attended the first ever Gamification Summit on Thursday! The turn out was absolutely amazing – nearly 400 attendees along with our phenomenal speakers, panelists and…
I have an Op-Ed on VentureBeat today entitled “VCs level up with ‘gamification‘”. It focuses on the increased amount of seed and early stage capital that has been going into gamification within the last year and what that means for development and the future. Effectively, investment enters the gamification channel either as pure-play (gamification-only) or…
An inside look at Dean Takahashi : lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. [SlideDeck id=’1505′ width=’100%’ height=’450px’] You can read more of Dean’s thoughts by following him on Twitter: @deantak And don’t miss hearing him speak at the Gamification Summit in January!
