Israel’s Dragonplay raises $14M for free-to-play mobile social games
Israeli social and mobile game startup Dragonplay has raised $14 million in a first round of funding. The investors are Accel Partners, Entrée Capital, and...
Wooga scores 11M downloads for Diamond Dash on iOS
Wooga has come out of nowhere to become the second-largest player on Facebook in social games. Now it is showing great progress in getting...
Gree launches second U.S. social mobile game, Alien Family
Gree made a splash last week with the launch of its first mobile social game for the U.S. market, Zombie Jombie. Now the Japanese...
The new iPad is for gaming
The new iPad, third generation, iPad 3, whatever you call it, is a serious gaming machine. For some games, it even rivals a console...
Rovio CEO: Actually, Angry Birds Space will come to Windows Phone (updated)
Update: Apparently Rovio’s execs do not communicate with each other. Rovio CEO Mikael Hed just told Reuters that his company is working on Angry...
Red Robot Labs proves location-based games are hot, raises $5M
Red Robot Labs, a maker of location-based smartphone games, has raised $5 million from Taiwanese media firm Next Media. The deal is a big...
Grand Cru raises $2M to build free-to-play Supernauts superhero game
Grand Cru is announcing today it has raised $2 million in seed funding to build an online adventure game called Supernauts. The company is entering a...
Neil Young’s path to the multibillion-dollar mobile social game market (interview)
Neil Young sold his San Francisco startup Ngmoco to Japan’s DeNA for $403 million in the fall of 2010. And that was just the...
Game makers embrace the iPad on launch day
Game developers and publishers expressed their support for the new Apple iPad as it launched around the world on Friday. One of the ways...
Callaway Digital Arts teams with Sesame Street on 3 new kids apps
Callaway Digital Arts has built a name for itself as a maker of interactive mobile apps for children. Now it’s inked a deal to...