EA debuts a Sims social game
Electronic Arts announced today that it is releasing a new social game for Facebook that is built off its popular life simulation game, The...
PapayaMobile raises $18M for mobile social game platform
PapayaMobile, the Chinese mobile social game platform startup, has raised $18 million in a second round of funding. It’s another sign that mobile gaming...
MXP4’s Bopler Games targets social music gaming on Facebook
About half of Facebook’s top fan pages are related to music. And games are huge on the social network. So it was only a...
Latin American startup gets $1.3M for 3D social gaming
Zio Studios, a 45-person animation and gaming startup based in Bogotá, Colombia, has announced that local venture capital firm Promotora, has invested $1.3M in...
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...
MindJolt to feed games to 110M users through deal with local web site aggregator
Social game company MindJolt is expanding its reach to more than 110 million users through a partnership with Broadcast Interactive Media. The deal will...
Casual-game maker OMGPOP pulls in funding; proves social games are still hot
Let’s take a break from all the serious discussion about violent video games for a second and look at casual games startup OMGPOP, which...
DiscoveryBeat 2010’s latest speakers: Kleiner Perkins’ Bing Gordon and more
Bing Gordon is sitting pretty in the new gaming gold rush that’s all social and mobile. A partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers,...
PlayFirst raises $9.2M to expand casual gaming offerings
Casual gaming startup PlayFirst announced this morning that it has raised an additional $9.2 million. The company, which started in 2004, is best known...