Flaregames raises $7.9M from Accel for free-to-play mobile games (exclusive)
Flaregames has raised 6 million euros, or $7.9 million, in a funding round led by Accel Partners. The money will help beef up the...
Mobile network Fingerprint sees 150 percent increase in minutes of game play in one month
Edutainment startup Fingerprint Digital says its first five educational gaming apps for children have seen a 150 percent increase in game play minutes in the...
Zynga confirms it bought four mobile game companies
Zynga confirmed the names of four mobile game companies that it has acquired in recent months, according to Reuters. The company did not disclose...
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...