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Playfish scored big last week as Electronic Arts said it would buy the social gaming company for as much as $400 million. That’s a...

Lawyers are investigating whether to file class-action lawsuits based on the recent scandal over scam-like offers that have appeared in games and other apps...

One of the largest problems for startups everywhere is getting the attention of and closing deals with large corporations. Tuesday night’s NextNY meetup brought...

Hoping to win over advertisers, Microsoft’s Massive division and market researcher comScore have teamed up to statistically show how effective in-game advertisements are. Massive...

Game startup Ohai is launching a new vampire-themed online world on Facebook as part of an attempt to snare more time and money from...

Offerpal Media founder Anu Shukla was hit with a lawsuit this summer over alleged shenanigans over the company’s founding, VentureBeat has learned. In August,...

As the founder of Monolith Productions, videogame creator Jace Hall is the man behind such PC shooting titles as Blood, Shogo: Mobile Armor Division,...

Second Life is going corporate. The virtual world already has more than 1,400 companies staging meetings and conferences inside its virtual landscapes. But Linden...

A relatively obscure part of the social networking business has come into the limelight. It’s about special ads known as “offers” that are used...