Spil Games has 170M monthly visitors who spend as much as $60 a month
Spil Games said today that it has 170 million monthly active visitors to its various teen-girl-focused game sites. People who play the free-to-play social...
King.com launches first game on Google+
King.com has more than 150 games on the web. In the past year, it successfully moved five of the games to Facebook, garnering 23.8...
The DeanBeat: Should Zynga move into online gambling?
Do gambling and Facebook games go together? Slot machine maker International Game Technology answered that question with a resounding “Yes!” when it bought Double...
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...
Slot machine maker International Game Technology pays $500M for Facebook casino game maker Double Down Interactive
Slot machine maker International Game Technology said Thursday it will buy Double Down Interactive for $500 million in cash. Double Down, based in Seattle,...
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...
Google creating its own social game using Google Maps
Watch out, Facebook. Google is making its own game for Google+ … and it involves maps. Yesterday, the company released a video of the...
People who cheat at social games are three times more likely to cheat in real life
People who cheat at social games are cheaters in real life too. So says a survey by casual game maker PopCap Games. The survey...
With $2M in funding, social game studio Seismic comes out of stealth
Hardcore game veterans who worked at the now-defunct Pandemic Studios have started a new social game studio called Seismic Games. Unveiled for the first...
Facebook rejiggers platform to increase game usage
Facebook announced Thursday evening that it has made updates to its platform to improve game usage and discovery of new apps. The social network...