King.com launches its first cross-platform mobile game (exclusive)
King.com grew up in the age of web portals, offering skill-based games for players who liked to play casual tournament games. But this is...
RockYou signs second social game deal with Loot Drop
Social gaming company RockYou has signed a second game publishing deal with Loot Drop, the studio created by veteran game developers John Romero (right)...
EA’s No. 2 executive leaves for Zynga
Electronic Arts‘ No. 2 executive, John Schappert, has resigned from the company and will reportedly join Zynga. Reuters said that Schappert, who joined EA...
Hi5 becomes a top ten online game site
Perhaps it was the sumo wrestling. Alex St. John, president of social network Hi5 and a man who took on a real sumo wrestler...
Argentina’s MetroGames targets hardcore gamers on Facebook
One of these days, hardcore games are going to find a big audience on Facebook. That’s the hope of MetroGames, an Argentine social game...
VCs see tough and exciting landscape for game startups
The game industry has gotten a lot of love from venture capitalists lately. For many years, VCs invested a small amount of money into...
Zynga’s Mark Pincus: The ethical founder?
The social era of computing has produced three multi-billion dollar companies: Facebook, Twitter and Zynga. As light is increasingly shed on the formation myths...
Online game startup Tiny Speck raises $10.7M from Andreessen Horowitz and Accel
Tiny Speck said today it raised $10.7 million in the second round of funding for its online game business from Andreessen Horowitz and Accel....
Social games could grow five-fold to $5B market by 2015
Social gaming revenues hit $1 billion in 2010 and could grow five-fold to $5 billion in the next five years. Market research firm Parks...
Social game firm RockYou looks inside for new CEO
RockYou didn’t have to go far to find its new chief executive. It has selected its chief operating officer Lisa Marino as the new...