PlayPhone enables instant multiplayer across Android and iOS devices (exclusive)
PlayPhone is announcing a technology today that will enable instant multiplayer gaming across iOS and Android devices. The technology will be part of the...
OnLive launches L.A. Noire for Android tablets
Cloud gaming service OnLive is launching Rockstar Games’ L.A. Noire on Android tablets today. One game may not seem like a big deal. But the...
Starhawk preview: Fast-action kill fest arrives on May 8
Starhawk, Sony’s new third-person sci-fi shooter game that debuts on May 8, is a frenetic action game that requires you to be a good...
6L cuts its development team as it focuses on third-party game publishing
6L, the social-gaming company formerly known as 6waves Lolapps, said today that it has laid off much of its development staff. Instead of using...
Halfbrick Studios acquires Onan Games for quick cross-platform ports
Australia’s Halfbrick Studios, maker of the popular Fruit Ninja mobile game, has acquired Onan Games so that it can publish titles across platforms more...
Zynga reportedly trying to acquire Draw Something maker OMGPOP
Zynga is reportedly in discussions to buy OMGPOP, the maker of the enormously successful Draw Something mobile game, according to TechCrunch. The deal shows...
Neil Young’s path to the multibillion-dollar mobile social game market (interview)
Neil Young sold his San Francisco startup Ngmoco to Japan’s DeNA for $403 million in the fall of 2010. And that was just the...
How Germany’s Wooga took Facebook by storm (interview)
After Zynga, the second-biggest player on Facebook isn't Electronic Arts anymore. It's Wooga, a Berlin-based studio that has become Europe's largest social game publisher with more than 49 million monthly active users on Facebook.
Now Wooga has raised $24 million in venture capital and has grown to more than 150 employees. The company now faces a number of strategic decisions, such as doubling down on Facebook or spreading out to platforms such as Google+ or Zynga.com. We caught up with co-founder Jens Begemann at the recent Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Here's a transcript of our interview.
Game makers embrace the iPad on launch day
Game developers and publishers expressed their support for the new Apple iPad as it launched around the world on Friday. One of the ways...
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...