The DeanBeat: Billionaire Mark Pincus breaks out of quiet period (exclusive interview)
Mark Pincus is the newest billionaire in Silicon Valley, thanks to the December initial public offering of Zynga, the social game giant he founded...
Elite game group recruits board members from the new guard at Nexon and Zynga
The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences is an elite professional game group that puts on the annual Dice Summit gaming event in Las Vegas...
Zynga accounted for $445M, or 12 percent of Facebook’s revenue, in 2011
Zynga, the largest app publisher on Facebook, accounted for 12 percent of the social network’s total revenue in 2011, according to Facebook’s inital public...
Digital Capital wants to play matchmaker for investors and digital entertainment startups (exclusive)
A new firm in Zug, Switzerland is launching today to act as a matchmaker for investors and digital interactive entertainment and video game startups. Digital...
Japan’s DeNa moves into Chinese smartphone game market in deal with Baidu
Japan’s DeNA is bent on being a global powerhouse in social games on mobile platforms. Today, the company announced it will put its Mobage...
Spil Games has 170M monthly visitors who spend as much as $60 a month
Spil Games said today that it has 170 million monthly active visitors to its various teen-girl-focused game sites. People who play the free-to-play social...
Zynga CEO: We aren’t the copycats on Bingo social game (exclusive interview)
Mark Pincus, chief executive of social gaming giant Zynga, denied that Zynga copied a rival’s Bingo game on Facebook. Instead, he said in an...
Visa leads $40M in TrialPay’s alternative payments business
Visa has led a $40 million investment round in TrialPay, one of the leaders in alternative payments known as offers. Mountain View, Calif.-based TrialPay...
Buffalo Studios blasts Zynga for copying Bingo Blitz social game
Nimblebit drew some blood last week when the developer of Tiny Tower cast a stone at Zynga, via an infographic, for copying Tiny Tower...
The DeanBeat: Game Dojos accelerator will help foster even more game startups
We’ve seen an explosion in game startups in the past few years. Zynga and Nexon have gone public, an indication that we could be...