Sulake CEO discusses Niko, Habbo Hotel and the drive to move audiences across platforms
With over 10 million unique visitors a month, Habbo Hotel is the world’s largest game and online community for teenagers, with users in over...
Playdom looks to boost Spry Fox’s Triple Town numbers on Facebook
Playdom, Disney’s social games product group, has announced plans to team with developer Spry Fox to publish its latest social game, Triple Town, on...
Zynga launches Hidden Chronicles game in an untapped treasure-hunting genre
Your Uncle Geoffrey has been killed, and the secret lies in the elegant estate where he lived. Your job is to uncover the secrets...
Move over Farmville, Gardens of Time is Facebook’s most popular game
To the dismay of bosses and spouses everywhere, Facebook, by way of third-party social games, offered social networkers a daily distraction they could not...
How Zynga grew from gaming outcast to $9 billion social game powerhouse
Update: This article is now available as a 63-page e-book on Amazon’s Kindle bookstore. Zynga has turned the video game world upside down in...
Disney’s Playdom launches social game Gardens of Time on iPad
Gardens of Time, the most successful Facebook game created by Disney’s Playdom, is launching today on the iPad. The launch is a major one...
Zynga goes after hidden-object games with Hidden Chronicles (video)
Zynga showed it is open to moving into new genres as it launched its first game in the popular “hidden object” category yesterday with Hidden...
Brands finally succeed in social games on Facebook
Facebook gamers are finally embracing well-known brands in their social games. That’s one of the conclusions from a panel on social games at the...
Venture capitalist Tim Chang describes the white-hot landscape of game investments
The emerging landscape of games is attracting a lot of money, thanks in part to excitement about Zynga’s upcoming initial public offering and some...
OpenFeint recruits game developer to lead free-to-play focus
OpenFeint has hired a game development leader to help its customers focus on making free-to-play mobile games. The move reflects the growing importance of...