The Japan-China connection: DeNA and Sina team up in mobile gaming
Japan’s DeNA and China’s Sina have teamed up to form a big mobile gaming market. DeNA is a $1.4 billion company that operates the...
Microsoft warns that OnLive Desktop’s Office streaming app violates license
The OnLive Desktop app enables users to run a Windows desktop on an Apple iPad or Android tablet, freeing users from their PCs even...
Konami and others will make games for Zynga.com
Zynga announced today that three major game companies have joined its new platform for publishing games on Zynga.com and Facebook. The new third-party partners...
Numecent’s “cloudpaging” could make digital delivery 100x faster
Cloud startup Numecent might completely reshape software distribution, by making it far faster to deliver bits over the internet. For video game players, that...
Numecent spins out Approxy cloud-gaming startup
Numecent, a startup with an interesting new cloud technology for digital delivery, is spinning out Approxy as a new cloud-gaming startup. While Numecent will...
Playnomics figures out how game players rate when it comes to potential purchases (exclusive)
Playnomics, a startup that helps predict which gamers will be valuable to game developers, is announcing today a free player-scoring system for online game...
Goplay launches portal for social games on the web (exclusive)
Goplay is launching a web portal for social games in the hopes of luring disaffected publishers away from Facebook. With Goplay, developers can make...
Bejeweled maker PopCap bets on Facebook casino-game gold rush
Ever since the Justice Department opened the door to the legalization of online gambling, the leading creators of social games are feeling increasingly lucky....
Mobile ad startup Kiip hires Zynga’s advertising chief as COO
Kiip is announcing today that it has hired Zynga’s ad boss Manny Anekal as chief operating officer. San Francisco-based Kiip is a fast-growing startup...
Small companies can do quick market research with Peanut Labs’ Crowdvibe (exclusive)
Peanut Labs is launching its Crowdvibe site today to allow anyone to create quick polls or market research surveys with large numbers of respondents...