Owen Van Natta steps down from executive role at Zynga
Owen Van Natta, the chief business officer at social game maker Zynga, is stepping down from that post and moving to a new role...
Zynga has acquired 15 companies so far this year
Zynga has acquired 15 companies so far this year, including a few it hasn’t announced. The information is included in an amendment to an...
Brazil social gaming market to hit $238 million by 2014
The market for social games in Brazil is expected to grow as large as $238 million by 2014, according to a study released by...
Japanese firms battle for mobile social game supremacy
The Japanese are coming. In the wide open field of mobile social gaming, two large-scale Japanese companies, both of which have made major acquisitions...
Inside Will Wright’s next big game: HiveMind (exclusive)
Will Wright has created some of the biggest video games of all time, from SimCity to The Sims — games that have sold well...
Qualcomm launches Snapdragon GameCommand app for mobile game discovery
Qualcomm is announcing today its Snapdragon GameCommand app for finding and playing mobile games on devices with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processors. Qualcomm is also expanding...
Bunchball brings gamification to Adobe’s digital marketing suite
It’s not as sexy as landing Playboy as a customer. But Bunchball is moving further into enterprises with its gamification technology, which makes non-game...
Activision “cannot guarantee” Call of Duty: Elite for PC
Things are not looking good for the PC version of the Call of Duty: Elite social network. A tweet on the service’s official Twitter...
Korean game startup Pangalore targets HTML5 games
More and more game companies are turning to the HTML5 web format to create cross-platform games. The latest is Pangalore, a social and mobile...
Zynga launches CastleVille social game and new FarmVille plush toys
Social game maker Zynga formally launched CastleVille as part of its accelerated release schedule for games in advance of its planned initial public offering....