Red Hot Labs raises $1.5M for mobile games and a platform to make them spread
The company includes members of the team that created Zynga's smash hit social game FarmVille.
With 7.5M users in Russia, Crytek’s free-to-play shooter Warface is coming to the U.S. (preview)
The successful online shooter is making its way to the U.S., China, and Asia.
GameHouse bets it all on its social casino games
Developer GameHouse is shifting its resources into social casino games.
EA enables gamers to use a single identity across game platforms (exclusive)
With a single identity, players can start playing a game on one platform and then pick up where they left off on another platform.
Goofy EA numbers that show how deeply players are engaged in games
Games produce "big data." EA has 275 million registered users, it captures 50TBs of data per day, and it monitors 2 billion monthly game sessions.
Zynga shuts Baltimore studio and consolidates three other locations
Closures are part of Zynga's strategy to contain costs using "guard rails."
Nevada governor signs nation’s first online gambling bill into law
Nevada rushes bill through to beat New Jersey to the punch.
PlayStation Cloud streaming tech the ‘fastest gaming network in the world’ — and promises PS4 games on Vita
The new PlayStation Network will make it easy for gamers to instantly share videos of their game with their friends, as well as instantly try new demos, and play on a second screen with their PlayStation Vita.
Playnomics raises $5M to fuel data science for digital games
Playnomics PlayRM service helps predict which users should be targeted with special offers inside games.
Cmune raises funding for first-person shooters on mobile and Facebook
Will first-person shooters emerge as a big market on social and mobile platforms?