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...
Facebook describes how to design the best social games
What’s the key to making a successful Facebook game? Just ask Gareth Davis, a platform manager at Facebook, who has seen thousands of social...
Facebook’s biggest untapped opportunities for game developers
Zynga may look like the all-powerful, dominant game publisher on Facebook. But Facebook wants you to know it’s not too late to get in...
Updated: Facebook to share ad revenue with Zynga, SEC filing reveals
[Updated: Facebook has made a statement about the filing.] Social games maker Zynga it has a revenue-sharing agreement with Facebook. The agreement, disclosed in...
Here are Zynga’s minority investors: Google, Peter Thiel, Softbank and others
Social game maker Zynga has outed its minority investors, which stand to make some serious cash off the company’s upcoming $1 billion initial public...
Is Amazon going to challenge Zynga in social games?
Amazon.com‘s recent hire of a veteran games designer suggests the massive retailer may be about to get into the business of publishing games itself....
Lolapps merges with 6waves to build social gaming powerhouse
Two leading social game companies — 6waves and Lolapps — are merging today in order to form a more powerful challenger to market leaders...
Reflections on GamesBeat 2011 and the road ahead in mobile games
Our well-attended GamesBeat 2011 conference took place this week, and here’s what you missed. As I noted in a preview story on mobile games, the conference was...
Electronic Arts buys PopCap for $750M
Supergiant video game publisher Electronic Arts has acquired casual game maker PopCap for $650 million in cash and $100 million in stock. The deal...
EA founder: we are in a dark age of video games (but Zynga is an exception)
Software licensing has hurt innovation in the video game industry — with social game maker Zynga being the exception to that rule — thanks...