EA goes after CityVille with today’s launch of SimCity Social
In a bid to unseat Zynga’s CityVille game on Facebook, Electronic Arts has launched SimCity Social today. The new city-building simulation game represents the culmination of...
PlayPhone quadruples its mobile social gaming network users in six months
PlayPhone, a startup that has created a mobile social gaming network, says it has grown its users from 1 million monthly active fans to 4 million in the past half year.
Updated: Surprise, surprise: Sony drops OnLive support for streaming media player after purchasing Gaikai
[Update: We’ve updated this story to be more precise. It is still confusing, but we’ve added the facts as we know them] Sony has...
Don’t miss our fireside chat with Tencent at GamesBeat 2012
We’re pleased to announce that David Wallerstein, senior executive vice president of international business at Tencent, will be sitting down with me for an...
Delaware’s approval of online gambling will make social game companies perk up
Delaware authorized online gambling today, as the state Senate approved a bill by a 14-6 vote to allow online betting in the state. The...
Heyzap launches a way for developers to reach its mobile game network users
Heyzap, a startup with a mobile social gaming network, is announcing today a way for mobile game developers to reach its network of millions...
Pamela Anderson takes on Zynga with BamPoker game
Zynga has the biggest online poker game in the world, but actress Pamela Anderson has the biggest…well, a bigger name. So she is entering...
IAC’s Rebel Entertainment comes out swinging with Dungeon Rampage social game
Rebel Entertainment is coming out of stealth today as a new game publisher with a popular browser-based dungeon-crawling game on Facebook. Burbank, Calif.-based Rebel,...
Earn real recipes while playing Zygna’s new game, ChefVille
Zygna's first foray into the restaurant sim gives you real recipes and puts a spin on the old idea of borrowing "a cuppa" from your neighbors.
Zynga Poker’s daily payout of 16 trillion chips could cover the national debt (and other mind-boggling stats)
Zynga's mind-boggling player stats: If Poker winnings were converted into dollars, players could pay off national debt...in a day.