Watercooler brings new revenue strategy to this fall’s Facebook fantasy football season
Watercooler, a company that has gained 25 million users on Facebook sports and television applications, is hoping to rack up the revenue this fall...
Booyah’s iPhone app lets you record and share life’s achievements
Booyah is launching a free iPhone app today that lets you create an “achievement system for your life.” Built by former game developers, the...
MySpace is a big gaming platform but it hopes to be more of one
Many of MySpace‘s nearly 125 million monthly active users are already playing social games made by companies like Playdom and Zynga. But the News...
Open Sports Network raises $4 million for sports fantasy games
Open Sports Network said it has raised $4 million to create social games in the fantasy sports game genre. Fox Sports is one of...
Do you have the right to socialize on multiplayer games?
[Editor’s note: As virtual worlds and other online gaming communities become more mainstream in the United States, new legal issues are cropping up. Here’s...
Can this save the Flash game market? Mochi Media launches virtual currency
Flash games on the web started out as a hobby. Now there are tens of thousands of them that, through advertising, are generating steady...
Pro gamers’ league signs big deal with Electronic Arts
Major League Gaming, the tournament league for professsional video game players, announced today it has cut a deal to use Electronic Arts‘ sports games...
Thanks for coming to MobileBeat2009!
Thanks to all of you who made it to MobileBeat2009 yesterday! We had a wide-ranging discussion of the biggest mobile trends of the day....
Can Facebook help apps get iPhone distribution?
One of the biggest problems for iPhone apps is finding users — the main way growth happens now is, paradoxically, by climbing the charts...
OpenFeint reaches a million users with its social discovery platform for iPhone
Aurora Feint, which launched version 2.0 of its OpenFeint platform to help iPhone developers build social networking elements into their games, says it now...