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...
Here’s what we REALLY thought about this week’s news (video)
[vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/36575210 w=640&h=376] Skyrim is awesome; Pinterest users need to calm the hell down; and Facebook users need to stay away from the gun...
Epic’s Tim Sweeney predicts the next 20 years in gaming technology
As chief executive of Gears of War developer Epic Games, Tim Sweeney has been on the forefront of video game graphics for a couple...
Gameloft Live enters the social mobile fray on Android, coming to iOS soon
Global games publisher Gameloft announced today its new gaming hub service, Gameloft Live. In a move that should surprise no one, the company has...
Lance Tokuda’s SchoolFeed rounds up $1.75M for fast-growing classmates network
Lance Tokuda was looking for an old high school friend, but instead he found his second big social networking startup. The co-founder of game...
Hardcore social game firm Kabam moves its headquarters to San Francisco
Social gaming firm Kabam said today it has signed a multi-year lease on a “spectacular” new office in downtown San Francisco. The move shows...
6waves Lolapps chief denies violating NDA in copyright dispute with Spry Fox (exclusive)
Rex Ng, chief executive of 6waves Lolapps, denied allegations that his company violated a non-disclosure agreement in a case related to allegations of copying...
The DeanBeat: Billionaire Mark Pincus breaks out of quiet period (exclusive interview)
Mark Pincus is the newest billionaire in Silicon Valley, thanks to the December initial public offering of Zynga, the social game giant he founded...
Elite game group recruits board members from the new guard at Nexon and Zynga
The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences is an elite professional game group that puts on the annual Dice Summit gaming event in Las Vegas...
Zynga accounted for $445M, or 12 percent of Facebook’s revenue, in 2011
Zynga, the largest app publisher on Facebook, accounted for 12 percent of the social network’s total revenue in 2011, according to Facebook’s inital public...