DiscoveryBeat 2010’s latest speakers: Kleiner Perkins’ Bing Gordon and more
Bing Gordon is sitting pretty in the new gaming gold rush that’s all social and mobile. A partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers,...
Facebook Credits expands reach globally in deal with PlaySpan
Facebook has teamed up with social monetization firm PlaySpan to expand its reach to more users around the globe for its Facebook Credits virtual...
Critics skewer Medal of Honor, and investors take down EA’s stock price
Only 30 publications have fully reviewed Electronic Arts‘ big game of the fall, Medal of Honor, on the Xbox 360 game console. But the...
Zynga to expand social game empire to Seattle
Zynga, the fast-growing maker of social games like FarmVille and Mafia Wars, has just posted a bunch of job openings for a social game...
Ngmoco aims to be part of a global social mobile gaming company
Neil Young, chief executive of iPhone game maker Ngmoco, said in an interview today that he agreed to sell his company to Japan’s DeNA...
Sometrics works out a virtual currency exchange with Facebook (exclusive)
Social app platform maker Sometrics is announcing today that its virtual currency can be exchanged into Facebook’s own new virtual currency, Facebook Credits. The...
Japan’s DeNA buys iPhone game publisher Ngmoco for up to $400M
Japan’s DeNA said today it is buying Ngmoco for up to $400 million in cash and stock in the biggest iPhone-related acquisition to date....
Kontagent game-analytics to help small developers take on social game leaders
Can Kontagent help David topple Goliath through better analytics? Social game companies such as Zynga consider their analytics — the data they collect about...
Surviving Taliban controversy, Medal of Honor video game assaults the Call of Duty franchise
Electronic Arts is launching Medal of Honor today as a critical reboot of a video game franchise that is a big part of EA’s...
GameSalad aims to let anyone create and launch iPhone apps
If you already think developers have created too many iPhone games (there are 49,000 of them), just wait until user-generated games take off. GameSalad...