Adknowledge lets developers move Facebook games to web portals
Adknowledge is announcing today a way to package Facebook games for monetization and launch them on web portals. The goal is to enable game...
Social gaming company MindJolt's recent buy churns out its first social game
MindJolt, a social game company headed by MySpace co-founder Chris DeWolfe, has launched its first its first social gaming project built by a company...
Hardcore iPhone game Infinity Blade lands on DeNA’s social gaming network
Japanese mobile games portal DeNA announced today it’s bringing the popular iPhone game Infinity Blade, one of the first mobile games geared toward hardcore gamers, to...
Week in review: Lulzsec and Anonymous trade blows
Here’s our roundup of the week’s tech business news. First, the most popular stories published by VentureBeat in the last seven days: Hit the...
Nexon launches first Facebook game: MapleStory Adventures
South Korea’s Nexon has specialized in making big downloadable role-playing and action games on the web. But the company is adapting to the new...
Zynga’s Empires & Allies rockets to nearly 10M users in nine days
Zynga‘s Empires & Allies game has rocketed to nearly 10 million users in nine days. That’s a remarkable start for any Facebook game, but...
Is companion gaming Ubisoft’s answer to Zynga? (video)
Last night, game publisher Ubisoft unveiled its strategy to get big on social and mobile at an event in San Francisco. Ubisoft’s digital game...
The startup con man
Two weeks ago, several tech publications wrote about DinglePharb, an exciting new social gaming developer based in the Philippines and Hong Kong. Led by...
Russia’s DST raising stake in Facebook at $6.5 billion valuation
Russia’s Digital Sky Technologies is boosting its stake in Facebook by buying from existing shareholders, Reuters is reporting. Offering the same $14.77 a share...