Zoosk integrates gamification into its online dating community (interview)
Founded five years ago, Zoosk started to make a name for itself in online dating through Facebook and other social networking sites. Last year,...
At $500M in 2012, mobile has become the fastest growing segment of social games
As mobile games become a lot more social, the money spent on them is starting to skyrocket. This year, revenue from virtual goods in...
Grand Cru raises $2M to build free-to-play Supernauts superhero game
Grand Cru is announcing today it has raised $2 million in seed funding to build an online adventure game called Supernauts. The company is entering a...
Zynga reportedly trying to acquire Draw Something maker OMGPOP
Zynga is reportedly in discussions to buy OMGPOP, the maker of the enormously successful Draw Something mobile game, according to TechCrunch. The deal shows...
PlayPhone buys mobile marketing firm SocialHour for $51.5M (exclusive)
PlayPhone has acquired mobile social marketing firm SocialHour for $51.5 million in stock, VentureBeat has learned. Ron Czerny, chief executive of PlayPhone, confirmed the...
OMGPOP’s Draw Something steals No. 1 spot from Zynga
Zynga has dominated the top charts of Facebook games for what seems like forever. So it’s surprising to note that Draw Something from OMGPOP...
Peter Relan on how to get two iPhone games into the top 25
Peter Relan wants to build a mobile gaming empire, one app at a time. The chief executive of CrowdStar and chairman of game incubator YouWeb...
Under GameStop, Kongregate sees big growth in virtual goods business
Life under GameStop’s ownership has been good for Kongregate, one of the largest destinations for free indie games on the internet. But the changes that...
Kixeye quietly makes big bucks on hardcore Facebook games
At first glance, Kixeye looks puny as a social gaming company on Facebook. It has only 4.6 million users compared to Zynga‘s more than 240 million monthly...
Call of Duty Elite players go bananas for clan warfare
Call of Duty Elite is turning out to be a highly engaging social network for hardcore fans of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3....