Raising $3.5M, Rocket Ninja will blast onto Facebook with 3D games (exclusive)
Social game maker Rocket Ninja is coming out of stealth mode today, showing it’s still possible to create social game startups even as Zynga...
Microsoft marks launch of Kinect motion-control system with dance party in Times Square
Microsoft launched its long-awaited Kinect motion-control system tonight at midnight Eastern time with a huge dance party in Times Square. Hundreds of professional dancers...
Zynga to launch its first Android social game
Social game maker Zynga said it’s launching games on Android-based mobile phones, beginning with Live Poker. The company, which has become famous for its...
Microsoft ups its sales forecast for Kinect motion-control systems this quarter
Microsoft plans to sell more than 5 million Kinect motion-sensing systems for the Xbox 360 this quarter, up from its previous forecast of 3...
Mig33 launches mobile social game platform for feature phones
Mobile community Mig33 has brought together 40 million registered users on humble feature phones around the world. They play games, socialize, and browse the...
Following in FarmVille’s footsteps, LOLapps takes a game beyond Facebook
LOLapps got knocked for a loop last month when Facebook abruptly shut down all of the company’s apps, which collectively draw more than 100...
BringIt raises $1.5M, helps RockYou generate revenue by putting a game inside a game
If you want to increase your revenue for a social game, you can put a game inside an existing game. That’s what BringIt, a...
Adknowledge grabs a senior exec from Yahoo to build next-generation ad targeting platform
Adknowledge is announcing today that it has hired former Yahoo executive Usama Fayyad as its chief scientist. His job will be to help the...
EA’s loss narrows, but it still needs bigger hits
Electronic Arts said that cost-cutting helped narrow its losses and make up for a big drop in revenue in its second fiscal quarter ended...
Supreme Court transcripts show where the witty justices stand on the video game violence case
The transcripts of the oral arguments of the violent video game case show that the justices by and large favor the video game industry’s...