Electronic Arts’ biggest acquisitions: the good, the so-so, and the duds
Electronic Arts spent about $2.9 billion on its 10 biggest acquisitions since 1992, according to merger and acquisition research firm Pitchbook. The video game...
How Space Ape aims to become one of the big hairy brutes of mobile gaming (interview)
Space Ape has a chance to be one of the big players in mobile games. Will its next game do the trick?
Super Evil Megacorp introduces the age of hardcore tablet gaming with Vainglory’s launch (interview)
Vainglory will test whether gamers are really ready for MOBA-style hardcore games on tablets.
After Playfish, social-game veterans return with Samurai Siege, earning $50K a day
Space Ape Games has scored a hit with real-time-strategy title Samurai Siege for tablets.
Former EA/Playfish exec joins board of red-hot mobile gaming startup Supercell (interview)
Kristian Segerstrale is joining the board of the maker of the enormously lucrative Clash of Clans mobile game.
EA’s top digital executive Kristian Segerstrale leaves
The last remaining co-founder of Playfish heads back to startups.
SimCity Social: If this free-to-play game is too good, will you pay $60 for the full PC version?
Electronic Arts is finally unveiling a long-rumored Facebook game, SimCity Social. And with it begins a great experiment: Will fans who enjoy this free-to-play...
Alex St. John’s Magi.com launches social gaming hub (exclusive)
Alex St. John is back. The former president of social network Hi5 sold off the struggling service to Tagged in December. But now he is...
EA and Tencent to take The Sims Social game to China
Electronic Arts and Chinese social network Tencent are taking EA’s The Sims Social game to China. Beijing-based Tencent, which has hundreds of millions of...
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...