Nexon launches first Facebook game: MapleStory Adventures
South Korea’s Nexon has specialized in making big downloadable role-playing and action games on the web. But the company is adapting to the new...
Zynga launches its first combat social game, Empires & Allies
Zynga, the leader in social games that could be near an initial public offering, is launching its first combat social game on Facebook tomorrow....
Germany’s Wooga raises $24M for social games on Facebook
Wooga says it has become the fastest-growing social game developer on Facebook, and the company announced today that it has raised $24 million in...
Will zombie and jewel games take PopCap to an IPO?
PopCap Games has been a consistent winner when it comes to making great games for casual audiences, or those who don’t consider themselves to...
Omar Hamoui’s Churn Labs creates Gnonstop Gnomes
Omar Hamoui sold AdMob to Google in 2009 for $750 million. Now he’s back — with gnomes. The Gnonstop Gnomes social app is the...
Howard Marks’ Gamzee will focus on social-mobile HTML5 games
Howard Marks has developed pretty good cred in video games. Over the course of 25 years, he helped revive an ailing Activision, which is...
Game Closure launches HTML5-based cross-platform game technology
Game Closure is showing off its HTML5-based cross-platform multiplayer gaming technology at the Google I/O conference today. The company is using its own Popstar...
Funzio raises $20M for social and mobile games
Funzio, a developer of social and mobile games such as Facebook’s Crime City, said it has raised $20 million in a first round of...
Document shows Zynga may be raising $500M round
A new document shows that Zynga is raising a new round of funding up to $490 million, according to Inside Social Games. The filing...
Chinese game industry to hit $5.8B in 2011 thanks to social game growth
The Chinese game industry is expected to grow 21 percent to $5.8 billion in 2011, thanks to continued growth of the social game market,...