Japan’s DeNa moves into Chinese smartphone game market in deal with Baidu
Japan’s DeNA is bent on being a global powerhouse in social games on mobile platforms. Today, the company announced it will put its Mobage...
Spil Games has 170M monthly visitors who spend as much as $60 a month
Spil Games said today that it has 170 million monthly active visitors to its various teen-girl-focused game sites. People who play the free-to-play social...
Zynga CEO: We aren’t the copycats on Bingo social game (exclusive interview)
Mark Pincus, chief executive of social gaming giant Zynga, denied that Zynga copied a rival’s Bingo game on Facebook. Instead, he said in an...
Visa leads $40M in TrialPay’s alternative payments business
Visa has led a $40 million investment round in TrialPay, one of the leaders in alternative payments known as offers. Mountain View, Calif.-based TrialPay...
Buffalo Studios blasts Zynga for copying Bingo Blitz social game
Nimblebit drew some blood last week when the developer of Tiny Tower cast a stone at Zynga, via an infographic, for copying Tiny Tower...
The DeanBeat: Game Dojos accelerator will help foster even more game startups
We’ve seen an explosion in game startups in the past few years. Zynga and Nexon have gone public, an indication that we could be...
Kabam acquires game studio Fearless Studios led by ex-Star Wars game developers
Kabam, a maker of hardcore social games, has acquired independent game studio Fearless Studios for an undisclosed price. The deal gives Kabam more development...
Zynga Bingo debuts on Facebook as part of casino suite
Adding to its Zynga Casino suite, Zynga is announcing today it has launched Zynga Bingo in a closed beta test on Facebook. The game...
Review: The futuristic OnLive Desktop runs Windows apps on the iPad
The current state of computing is always under scrutiny and speculation. For years laptop and desktop computers have been proclaimed dead, most recently in...
THQ launches a Margaritaville Online Facebook game
In a major attempt to diversify, traditional video game publisher THQ is launching its Margaritaville Online social game on Facebook today. Inspired by the...