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An exciting part of GamesBeat 2010 was the ‘Who’s Got Game?’ contest. Five selected finalists presented their company onstage while the all-star panel of judges evaluated them. [9 photos; photos by JP Manninen] At GamesBeat 2010, it was all about stepping up to the mic, and, stepping up. Who's Got Game?

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GamesBeat 2010 was all about networking and bringing people together. Some of the conversations spilled out from the stage out in to the hallways of Moscone Center. [6 photos; photos by JP Manninen] Brian Reynolds from Zynga having a hallway conversation. Mark Friedler from IndustryGamers.com moderates a panel on gaming on mobile devices.

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It’s a little funny that the producer of the serious game Metroid Other M is also behind the comic expression of Nintendo’s WarioWare series of handheld games. In a talk before hundreds of game developers today at the Game Developers Conference, Yoshi Sakamoto talked about his career making Metroid games for Nintendo since 1986. The games, which star the heroine Samus with ..Read More

GamesBeat 2010 kicked off to a packed house on March 10. The 2010 edition of our GamesBeat@GDC conference was a roaring success! Here’s another look at the March 10 event in San Francisco VentureBeat's Matt Marshall set the theme of Disruption 2.0 in his welcome speech. Steve Perlman, CEO of OnLive, delivered his keynote to a riveted audience. Tim ..Read More

iPhone application recommendation site Chomp has raised another $2 million in funding, after showing strong growth since its launch eight weeks ago. Thus far the site has gathered 300,000 users, who have left 1.5 million reviews. The company has also acquired the domain Chomp.com and relaunched its website with new features — including vanity web addresses for users, and ..Read More

Hardly a week goes by where we don’t receive a company pitch from a hopeful startup trying to crash the group deals scene. And for good reason, since venture capital firms seem happy to throw cash at well-executed takes on the business model. LivingSocial is the latest to score a large amount of funding. It raised $25 million in a ..Read More

Just after Sony debuted its new motion controller tonight, the Japanese company threw a big God of War III launch party. The game has been in the works for more than three years and it finally debuts on March 16. After a day full of GamesBeat@GDC panels, I made it to the party, which was bathed in neon light ..Read More

Online legal tool platform Legal River launched Attorney River today to connect attorneys to other attorneys. Attorneys can use the service to post requests for other attorneys. Once a lawyer posts a request, for example for outsourcing work or looking for a specialist in a different state, Attorney River alerts all lawyers with matching profiles and allows them to ..Read More

Sony Computer Entertainment America today officially entered a new phase in the lifespan of the PlayStation 3 console by touting the PlayStation Move, a wireless motion controlled device that rivals Nintendo’s Wiimote and Microsoft’s Upcoming Project Natal. Introduced at E3 2009 with the working title the PlayStation Wand, the PlayStation Move resembles a light-weight microphone with a colored crown. ..Read More

Turiya Media , which helps game publishers mine and analyze user data, was just selected as the top startup in the Who’s Got Game Competition at our GamesBeat@GDC event in San Francisco. The company says its Leafnode product uses advanced predictive algorithms to track hours of logged time by individual players and create individual behavioral profiles. It focuses on ..Read More