Zynga gets a new chief financial officer — CEO appoints Best Buy financial strategist
The social-gaming company turns to a veteran of retail.
Hoping to ignite a mobile messaging wildfire, Tango snares Zynga's Words with Friends
With Alibaba's investment, Tango is starting to sign bigger games for its network.
The DeanBeat: The questions to ask about the current state of games
Here's the speech I made at the Game Developers Conference.
Zynga and its players donate $1M to support safe water nonprofit
To date, Zynga.org has raised $18M for nonprofits through 150 in-game campaigns.
How Candy Crush Saga gave its parent company the worst IPO of the year
The Candy Crush Saga maker had a rough first day trading on the New York Stock Exchange. The company went public and introduced its stock at $22.50. At the closing bell, its shares were trading at $19, which is down more than 15.5 percent.
Discover the state of mobile gaming in a fireside chat with SGN’s Chris DeWolfe (interview)
SGN is making mobile games, but it hasn't abandoned Facebook as a proving ground for new ideas.
Analysts and game company CEOs eagerly await King’s initial public offering
Here's what analysts and other gaming CEOs think about the upcoming King IPO.
Nexon’s Owen Mahoney sees salvation through original hardcore games, not Flappy Bird copycats (interview)
Nexon's Owen Mahoney is driving his company toward more creative free-to-play titles.
How a seasoned venture capitalist at IDG Ventures views game investments (interview)
IDG Ventures' Phil Sanderson has quietly become one of the most successful venture capitalists backing games.
Inside Nvidia’s plan to give $100K to the next hot emerging startup (interview)
Nvidia's top investment executive, Jeff Herbst, also tells us what he looks for investments.