Will Zynga fare better than Pandora, Groupon in its IPO?
Zynga, the game developer behind smash hits FarmVille and CityVille, is the most profitable Web 2.0 company that has filed to go public this...
Zynga points to the obvious IPO risk: Facebook
Social game company Zynga’s just-announced S1 filing, its first step towards an initial public offering, not surprisingly lists its relationship with Facebook as its...
Crikey! Zynga’s IPO by the numbers
Social games maker Zynga, the developer behind smash hits like FarmVille and CityVille, filed for an initial public offering today, according to a filing...
How Portal 2 touched off a domestic World War 3
One of the longest, deepest arguments my spouse and I have ever had (and we've known each other since 1997) took place during the...
The persistent decline of the Sega Corporation
Yu Suzuki has confirmed what many of us thought his "promotion" was about a number of years ago: He is leaving Sega (apart from...
Kleiner’s Bing Gordon: gamers should make $3 an hour while playing
Online gamers should on average generate $3 of value per hour, regardless of the game they are playing — and game designers should aim...
Is Google+ planning to add games and questions?
While most people are still waiting to experience the plethora of new features available on Google+, there are portions of the new social service...
Nintendo ignores fans’ pleas to bring Xenoblade stateside
After a fan campaign asked Nintendo to release North American versions of Wii Japanese RPGs Xenoblade, The Last Story and Pandora’s Tower, the company...
Once dead Hellgate: London online game returns as free-to-play
Hellgate: London, an online game developed by former members of Blizzard Entertainment that was shut down in 2009, has returned from the dead and...
News Blips: Framerate wars, Skyrim’s beauty plan, Fallout MMO, and more
The epic conflict doggedly continues between modern military shooters Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Battlefield 3. Sorry, did I say epic conflict?...