Countering Zynga, PopCap Games buys ZipZapPlay
In a counter-move against Zynga, game maker PopCap Games said today that it has acquired the San Francisco-based social game developer ZipZapPlay. Terms of...
Hi5 becomes a top ten online game site
Perhaps it was the sumo wrestling. Alex St. John, president of social network Hi5 and a man who took on a real sumo wrestler...
PlayJam launches games on LG’s smart TVs
Games are migrating to all platforms. The latest example is a deal between PlayJam and LG to put casual games on smart TVs and...
Oberon to shutter internal game development
Online games giant Oberon Media has decided to shut down in-house production, resulting in the elimination of an undetermined number of jobs, according to Oberon...
India’s Games2win raises $6M for casual online games
India is growing fast as a modern entertainment market. That has enabled Games2win to raise $6 million in a second round of funding for...
YooMee Games enters crowded tournament-games market
There’s no shortage of companies offering tournament-game platforms. But YooMee Games is announcing today that it is going after the market with a unique...
Game companies raise record $1.05B in 2010, up 58 percent
Game fundings broke a record this year as 91 companies raised more than $1.05 billion in 2010. That number is up 58 percent from...
Steering clear of Zynga, Big Fish Games goes global with casual game expansion
Zynga may be darling of the social game industry, but Big Fish Games has been selling casual games for eight years now and doesn’t...
Casual-game maker OMGPOP pulls in funding; proves social games are still hot
Let’s take a break from all the serious discussion about violent video games for a second and look at casual games startup OMGPOP, which...
Arkadium staffs up to make shift into social games
Arkadium is one of many casual game publishers making the shift to social games on Facebook, and it is adding staff to do so....