Adobe Flash-based mass market games will go 3D in a big way
Adobe is about to taking mass market gaming up a notch. The company is introducing a number of high-end gaming features — from 3D...
Disney to launch Animal Kingdom Explorers hidden-object social game
Disney’s Playdom scored big with Gardens of Time, the most popular game on Facebook last year. Now the company is announcing a new title...
Former Lolapps CEO leaves after acquirer lays off its developers
Former Lolapps chief executive Arjun Sethi is leaving the recently merged 6Waves Lolapps after a number of the social gaming company’s developers were laid...
Zynga to sell 43M shares in secondary offering, bought OMGPOP for $180M
Zynga filed a revised S-1 this morning with the SEC that contained a number of interesting details. It pegged the price of its recent...
Digital game sales reach $3.3B in U.S. and Europe in Q4
Digital game sales reached a total of $3.33 billion in the fourth quarter in the U.S. and Europe, according to the NPD Group. The...
Zynga-OMGPOP deal draws mixed views from Wall Street analysts
Zynga’s purchase of OMGPOP for a price reported to be around $150 million to $200 million has drawn mixed reviews on Wall Street. The...
People are playing mobile games at home — especially in bed
Mobile games rule in the home these days, and the most popular place to play them is in bed. MocoSpace surveyed 15,000 of its mobile...
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...