Kabam looks beyond Facebook for its growth in hardcore social games (exclusive)
Kabam made its mark in social games on Facebook, but the company is rapidly diversifying away from the social network as it pursues fans...
Google+ scores Digital Chocolate’s Gangs of Boomtown as an exclusive social game
Digital Chocolate is launching its new social game Gangs of Boomtown as an exclusive title for Google+. The title is the third that Digital...
Zynga’s hybrid zCloud lets it get rid of two out of every three servers
Social game maker Zynga has shifted 80 percent of its game traffic to its own private data center servers, known as the zCloud, the company revealed yesterday...
Looking beyond Facebook, Zynga hits 15M daily mobile game users
Zynga chief executive Mark Pincus said the social game company now has more than 15 million daily active users for its mobile games, compared...
Zynga beats earnings estimates for its first-ever quarterly report as a public company
Social game maker Zynga reported a modest profit for the fourth-quarter in its first-ever quarter financial report today. The non-GAAP earnings per share were five...
Love connection: 1 in 10 Words With Friends score in real life
Perhaps it’s time to start calling it Words With Friends With Benefits. Fans of Zynga‘s Words With Friends social game on Facebook are making...
History Channel launches Top Shot Facebook game to coincide with TV show premiere
If you’ve ever wanted to know how good a shot you are — without firing a real gun — the folks at the History...
Zynga launches iPhone game Dream Heights: Let the copycat wars begin
Zynga launched its Dream Heights mobile game for the iPhone and iPad today. The title enables players to build the “skyscraper of the century,” but...
Making Fun joins the hidden-object game fray on Facebook with Hidden Haunts (exclusive)
Making Fun, the social game division of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., has launched a hidden object game called Hidden Haunts that will set itself...
EA and Tencent to take The Sims Social game to China
Electronic Arts and Chinese social network Tencent are taking EA’s The Sims Social game to China. Beijing-based Tencent, which has hundreds of millions of...