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...
EA Mobile throws its support behind Windows Phone 7
Electronic Arts‘ mobile game division, EA Mobile, said today it will make games for Microsoft‘s Windows Phone 7 and has four titles ready for...
Xbox 360 and Windows Phone 7 to show U-verse live TV
AT&T confirmed today that Microsoft‘s Xbox 360 will serve as a set-top box for AT&T’s U-verse broadband TV service. While it’s an interesting development...
Scoreloop delivers social game platform for Samsung phones and TVs
Smartphone games are starting to spread out beyond the Apple iPhone and Google Android platforms. In support of that trend, Scoreloop is announcing today...
Massive fail for Microsoft with in-game ads?
Microsoft appears poised to shut its Massive in-game advertising division. If so, it would be a huge failure for Massive, which Microsoft had high...