Making Fun debuts as the video-game arm of Rupert Murdoch’s empire
Media baron Rupert Murdoch is going into video games — but not in his usually splashy way. Although he could easily drop a billion...
Do women play more games than men?
Women now play games more than men, according to a report by mobile app analytics provider Flurry. At least that’s true in the realm...
Social games maker Digital Chocolate raises $12M
Digital Chocolate, a developer of social games that appear on sites like Facebook, announced today that it has raised $12 million in its fourth...
King.com takes tournament games into Facebook
King.com, a popular casual gaming site with 25 million unique players a month, is moving into social games in a big way. The company...
Zynga’s new funding values CityVille maker at $10B
It looks like early reports about social gaming giant Zynga’s new funding round were a little conservative. Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal...
CityVille maker Zynga rumored to be raising $250M round at $7B valuation
Social game maker Zynga is reportedly talking to investors about raising a new $250 million round of funding that values the company at $7 – $9...
Richard Garriott: My plan to beat FarmVille and CityVille (video)
Richard Garriott is known as a video-game pioneer, an undersea diver and an astronaut. Now he wants to outdo Zynga, the creator of FarmVille...
SiXits ready to wade into Facebook games with Babies Everywhere
As Facebook games become a bigger and bigger business, new social game startups continue to launch. The latest is SiXits. Zynga may dominate the...
Facebook confirms plans to make Credits the mandatory “universal currency”
Updated with analyst comments. Facebook is announcing the next phase in the rollout of its virtual currency, Facebook Credits, which is leaving beta testing...
RockYou signs deal with Doom creator John Romero’s social game studio Loot Drop
Aiming to lock up a high-quality game developer, RockYou has signed a deal with Loot Drop, a new social game studio created by id...