Zynga acquires Wild Needle casual game maker for an estimated $3.8M
Zynga acquired Wild Needle, a casual game company that had backing from Playdom co-founder Rick Thompson, according to TechCrunch. We’ve heard that the purchase...
Bethesda and id release 20th anniversary edition of Wolfenstein 3D as web/mobile game
id Software and its new owner Bethesda Softworks are announcing today a new 20th anniversary edition of Wolfenstein 3D, playable as a web-based browser...
Are Chinese gamers addicted to crack?
Freemium mobile games might help foreign developers confront piracy in China.
CrowdStar raises $11.5M for mobile games but will lay off Facebook developers
CrowdStar, which is shifting from social to mobile games, has raised $11.5 million in a recent round of funding. At the same time, the...
Funzio scores big with third million-plus hit on the iPhone
Funzio is three for three on the iPhone. The social-mobile game maker’s latest release, Kingdom Age, had more than 1 million downloads in its...
YogiPlay unveils learning app service for children (exclusive)
The iPad and other smart devices are becoming an ideal platform for entertaining children. But the problem with content for kids on the App...
Crowdstar teams up with Gree for social mobile games
Shifting from Facebook to mobile, Crowdstar is announcing today that it will publish games through Gree‘s worldwide mobile social network. The alliance isn’t a...
Angry Birds Space hits 50M downloads in 35 days
Angry Birds Space has been downloaded more than 50 million times in its first 35 days on the market, according to publisher Rovio. That...
Japan’s DeNA signs up Kabam and Nimblebit
Japan's DeNA mobile social gaming network has signed up a couple of key American game partners as it expands in the U.S.
First quarter game investments and acquisitions gather steam
The consolidation of companies in the social game market has begun, according to first-quarter data gathered by game-focused investment bank Digi-Capital. In the first...