Zynga’s FrontierVille skyrockets to 20 million users in 36 days
Social game publisher Zynga said today that its Wild West pioneer-themed game FrontierVille has soared to more than 20 million users since it was...
Tiger Woods golf video game sales plummet compared to a year ago
Sales of Tiger Woods PGA Tour video games plummeted this year, with the game selling only 32 percent of the total that it sold...
U.S. retail video game sales fall 6 percent in June despite new Xbox 360 hardware
U.S. video game sales fell 6 percent overall in June despite strong sales of Microsoft’s slimmer Xbox 360 video game console, according to market...
Zynga’s FarmVille social game partners with real-world farm to offer in-game crops
Zynga’s FarmVille has more than 62 million monthly users on Facebook. And that has made it a magnet for marketing deals. The company announced...
Flurry formally launches AppCircle to cross-sell mobile apps
Flurry said today it is formally launching its AppCircle network for cross-selling mobile apps. Flurry operates a mobile analytics, money-making and promotion service for...
Free-to-play business model starting to generate a “geiser of money” for iPhone game makers
Purchase of virtual goods are starting to take off on the iPhone and game startups are starting to prosper from the added revenue, according...
Gendai Games raises $1M in first round for game creation tools
Gendai Games, a startup with a game creation tool for the iPhone, has raised over $1 million in a first round of funding. Techcrunch...
NBC/GE joint venture invests $2M in game voice chat firm Vivox
Peacock Equity has invested $2 million in online game voice-chat company Vivox. Peacock is a joint investment fund of General Electric Capital’s Media, Communications...
Curt Schilling’s online game firm 38 Studios considers $75M loan incentive from Rhode Island
Curt Schilling’s Maynard, MA-based 38 Studios, which makes massively multiplayer online games, will meet with Rhode Island’s Economic Development Corporation to discuss a possible...
Activision Blizzard taps ad executive for top game publishing post
Activision Blizzard said today it has filled the chief executive job for its Activision Publishing division, which publishes blockbuster games such as the Call...