Will Hi5’s new SocioPath game platform lure developers away from Facebook?
Ever since Alex St. John joined Hi5 as president last fall, he has been promising to stick it to Facebook, the social network that...
Zynga buys Bonfire Studios and sets up Dallas game studio
Zynga‘s acquisition spree continues as the social game company announced today it has acquired Bonfire Studios, a Dallas-based social game startup. The price wasn’t...
DiscoveryBeat 2010 drumbeat continues with latest speaker additions
The list of great speakers for DiscoveryBeat 2010 keeps growing. DiscoveryBeat 2010 is an event focused on the “secret recipe” for application discovery and...
Media Chaperone’s Piggyback lets parents monitor kid gamers on Facebook
The audience for social networks is getting younger and younger as more children are drawn to the cute social games that have become the...
GetJar to give mobile games away to millions of users for free
Mobile app store operator GetJar plans to shake up the mobile game industry by giving away millions of copies of mobile games for free....
Panasonic to debut mobile game handheld called the Jungle
Welcome to the Jungle. Panasonic is preparing to launch a handheld gaming unit by that name, according to the gadget blog CrunchGear. About 15...
Nexon invests in Spanish developer BoomBang Games
South Korea’s Nexon wants to be a bigger player on the global gaming stage. Today, the company announced it has made an investment in...
OnLive eliminates monthly fees for games-on-demand service
OnLive, an Internet-based games-on-demand service, said today it is permanently eliminating its base monthly fee. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company offers server-based games, which...
Warner Bros. taps industry veteran Greg Ballard to run digital games
Movie studio Warner Bros. is getting serious about online games and digital distribution. The company announced today it has hired video game industry veteran...
Blizzard confirms World of Warcraft Cataclysm launch for Dec. 7
Following through on its pledge to launch two major games in a year, Blizzard Entertainment said it will release World of Warcraft: Cataclysm on...