Zynga’s got $1.8 billion in cash and is aggressively looking for the next OMGPOP
Good news for all you mobile game developers out there: Zynga, now a public company, has a big chunk of available cash on hand...
Social mobile game maker Zattikka goes public on London Stock Exchange
Zattikka, a London-based maker of browser and mobile games, has gone public on the London Stock Exchange. The company is a social game developer...
Kabam crosses 1M downloads for its first mobile game
Kabam said today that its first hardcore game for mobile devices has been downloaded more than a million times. Kingdoms of Camelot: Battle for the...
At 2.5B games played a month, King.com reaps benefits from its casual Saga titles on Facebook
London-based King.com is launching Candy Crush Saga on Facebook today as part of its bid to capitalize on the shift in audience tastes toward increasingly casual games....
Seismic Games paves new game category on Facebook with CelebrityMe
Social game startup Seismic Games is launching CelebrityMe, a new Facebook title that lets players live out the fantasy of being a celebrity. The...
Zynga-OMGPOP deal draws mixed views from Wall Street analysts
Zynga’s purchase of OMGPOP for a price reported to be around $150 million to $200 million has drawn mixed reviews on Wall Street. The...
OMG Stop! Why Zynga is considering $200M purchase of DrawSomething creator OMGPOP
Welcome to the wild world of mobile gaming, where a new king can be crowned in the span of three weeks, and a struggling...
Facebook paid $1.4B to game developers in 2011
Facebook paid more than $1.4 billion to game developers (and other app makers) in 2011, according to a Facebook talk at the Game Developers...
Snack your way to FarmVille success, as Zynga teams up with Frito-Lay
For better or worse, snacking and gaming seem to be inexorably linked. Now social gaming giant Zynga is building on this relationship, by teaming...
Goplay launches portal for social games on the web (exclusive)
Goplay is launching a web portal for social games in the hopes of luring disaffected publishers away from Facebook. With Goplay, developers can make...