Kabam looks beyond Facebook for its growth in hardcore social games (exclusive)
Kabam made its mark in social games on Facebook, but the company is rapidly diversifying away from the social network as it pursues fans...
With Valentines over, it’s time to move on to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3’s latest map
With Valentines Day over, it’s time to get back to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. Activision Blizzard is launching a new map this...
MXP4 and Mobile Roadie take social music games to mobile devices (exclusive)
MXP4 and Mobile Roadie have partnered to take social music games to mobile devices. Under the partnership, MXP4’s Bopler Games social music games will...
Zynga’s quarterly report by the numbers
Zynga announced its first-ever quarterly reported as a public company today. Here are the relevant numbers: Q4 GAAP net loss: $435.0 million loss vs....
Love connection: 1 in 10 Words With Friends score in real life
Perhaps it’s time to start calling it Words With Friends With Benefits. Fans of Zynga‘s Words With Friends social game on Facebook are making...
Can Zynga satisfy investors with its first-ever earnings report?
Zynga is expected to report a profit for the fourth-quarter in its first-ever quarter financial report after the market closes on Tuesday. The largest...
Making Fun joins the hidden-object game fray on Facebook with Hidden Haunts (exclusive)
Making Fun, the social game division of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., has launched a hidden object game called Hidden Haunts that will set itself...
New details and Outland screens from “World of Warcraft within Minecraft” project (exclusive interview)
A 27-year-old U.S. graduate student known as “Ramses” is creating a stir in the community of Minecraft, the sandbox-building game by Swedish development studio...
Activision’s Eric Hirshberg: Turning games into brands and other non-douche moves (exclusive interview)
Eric Hirshberg was an experiment when Activision Blizzard‘s chief executive hired Hirshberg as CEO of the Activision Publishing division about 18 months ago. Hirshberg...
The DICE Summit in pictures (photo gallery)
Here’s our photo gallery from the DICE Summit 2012. This year’s conference drew more than 700 game industry luminaries to a wide variety of...