Zynga launches PrivacyVille tool to gamify user privacy
Zynga is launching PrivacyVille today, a game-like tutorial that rewards players with game points for learning more about the social game company’s privacy practices....
Free-to-play games are taking over the App Store
Free-to-play games are taking over Apple’s App Store, based on data released today from mobile analytics firm Flurry. About 65 percent of the revenue...
17 reasons to attend GamesBeat 2011
We’ve been writing a lot of posts about our speakers at GamesBeat 2011. But here’s a summary of why we think this will be...
Long-awaited Civilization World launches public beta on Facebook
Sid Meier’s Civilization World is available today to all Facebook users as the social game enters its public beta test. After more than 22...
Global games business to hit $112B by 2015
Spending on video games around the globe will grow from $74 billion in 2011 to $112 billion by 2015, according to market researcher Gartner....
Tapjoy raises $30M for mobile app marketing business
Tapjoy has raised $30 million in a new round of funding for its app marketing and monetization business. The company raised the money in...
Social gaming company Ohai sold to unnamed bidder (exclusive)
We hear that social gaming company Ohai has been sold. We don’t know who the buyer is, but there were evidently a number of...
Even with half the users, Zynga’s FarmVille made more money than ever before in Q1
Game maker Zynga‘s break-out hit, FarmVille, saw record revenue in the quarter ended March 31, 2011, even while its monthly active user count dropped from...
Zynga paid $53.3M to buy Words With Friends mobile game maker Newtoy
Tucked away in Zynga‘s initial public offering filing are the amounts that the company paid to buy a bunch of game studios in the...
Zynga planning to diversify beyond Amazon, build its own data centers
One of the little-known facts about social game giant Zynga is that it’s one of the biggest operators of cloud computing infrastructure, built to support...