Bionic Panda raises seed funding for Android mobile games
Bionic Panda Games has raised seed financing to develop mobile games for Google’s Android operating system, the company announced today. Not surprisingly, Google Ventures is...
DeanBeat: Game companies went on a $2.8B buying spree in 2011
The social and mobile games gold rush inspired lots of investments in 2011, as venture capitalists tried to find the next Zynga. But the...
Zynga hires away EA’s top mobile and social executive Barry Cottle
Social gaming giant Zynga has hired Electronic Arts’ top mobile and social executive Barry Cottle as Zynga’s new executive vice president of corporate and...
HTML5 cross-platform game company Moblyng shuts down (exclusive)
Moblyng was ahead of its time in making cross-platform HTML5 games for mobile devices. Too far ahead, it seems, as the company has shut...
Arkadium signs multi-year game partnership with Microsoft
Betting big on Microsoft’s multi-platform game strategy, Arkadium is announcing a three-year strategic partnership to develop and publish games for Microsoft’s current and future...
6waves Lolapps’ first mobile game Yeti Town shoots to the top of the charts
Just in time for Winter, a Yeti game has sprung to the top of Apple’s most downloaded iOS games chart. 6waves Lolapps published its...
Flash games are still generating strong traffic and revenue growth for developers
The Flash game market is thriving. Developers have sprouted up around the world. They’re creating mobile games based on their Flash web games, and...
Older gamers buy virtual goods more often younger gamers
The older you are, the more likely you are to buy virtual goods in mobile social games. That’s the conclusion of a survey by...
Veteran Wall Street analyst rates Zynga an “outperform”
Zynga has taken a beating in its first two days of trading as a public company, with the stock closing at $9.05 a share...
The9’s Game Zone enables mobile game discovery in China (exclusive)
The9, an online gaming company with a long history in China, said it has scored good results making games more discoverable in the China...