EA sues Zynga, alleging The Ville is a blatant clone of The Sims Social
EA and Zynga, two of the world's biggest game companies, are at war over copyrights.
The DeanBeat: How fast will the shift to huge growth for mobile games happen?
With the console market looking a little shaky and Facebook starting to slow down, mobile stands before the gaming industry as a potential savior.
Springy achieves 15M downloads without any marketing or investors, plans to bring Wordplay to iOS
The two-person game studio Springy has had huge success and is now launching Wordplay on iOS.
Zynga stuck in real-life BadNewsVille: more lawsuits, COO demoted
Zynga’s bad day on July 25 when the company reported horrible earnings turned into a bad week when investors found out that insiders cashed out...
First Zynga insider trading lawsuit filed
Soon after Zynga’s crash-and-burn quarter reduced its stock to the $3 level, five legal firms have announced investigations into allegations of insider trading. The problem?...
Sony’s Adam Boyes chases developers on new platforms
Adam Boyes is helping Sony embrace the new social, mobile, and online side of the game industry.
Blitzoo aims for mobile-casino jackpot with SlotSpot (exclusive)
Blitzoo Games is entering a crowded market with big rivals like Zynga and Electronic Arts. But David Bezahler, the company's chief executive, believes that its latest title, SlotSpot, is putting a new spin on social-casino titles for smartphones.
A leader on Facebook, Germany’s Wooga makes its move into mobile games
Jens Begemann still believes in Facebook, but the CEO of Wooga is also expanding into mobile social games.
Dragons, dinosaurs, and Transformers: RuneScape’s CEO on the future of free to play
Free to play is the future of gaming, even for traditional game publishers, according to Jagex Games Studio CEO Mark Gerhard. He talks to GamesBeat about the rush to the free-to-play model, Jagex's potential market value, and the development of upcoming MMO Transformers Universe.
SeeYouInCourtVille: law firms investigating Zynga for possible insider trading
Three months before releasing a quarterly earnings report that slaughtered an already-decimated stock, Zynga executives and investors unloaded some of their stock, raking in...