Editor's Pick The game industry set a new record for the money spent on acquisitions, but the number of deals dropped.
Ravenshire Castle is launching today on Facebook. It is the final chapter in the Raven World series created by a team of developers at Lolapps, which was once on the top charts of Facebook gaming. The fact that Ravenshire Castle …
Former Lolapps chief executive Arjun Sethi is leaving the recently merged 6Waves Lolapps after a number of the social gaming company’s developers were laid off.
Sethi, who was with Lolapps for four years, announced his departure in a blog post …
Here’s some of the stories that ran only on GamesBeat this week. We’re running more stories exclusively on the GamesBeat section of VentureBeat now, particularly when the stories are mainly of interest to game readers. The broader interest stories are …
Rex Ng, chief executive of 6waves Lolapps, denied allegations that his company violated a non-disclosure agreement in a case related to allegations of copying Spry Fox’s social game on Facebook.
Spry Fox, a small game developer in Seattle, said last …
The issue of copycat games is rearing its head in mobile games, just as it had with social games on Facebook.
Spry Fox, a small game developer in Seattle, announced today in a blog post that it has filed a …
6waves Lolapps said today it has acquired Dallas-based mobile game maker Escalation Studios. The move is part of a concerted effort by the social game publisher to get big in mobile. Terms of the deal were not announced.
San Francisco-based …
Just in time for Winter, a Yeti game has sprung to the top of Apple’s most downloaded iOS games chart. 6waves Lolapps published its first iOS game, Yeti Town, just last night. The title is the first of dozens that …
Hoping to extend a social game franchise, 6waves Lolapps is launching its new Ravenskye City game today.
The game is an expansion of the existing Raven series of games that have been a major hit for 6waves Lolapps. If it …
The Gold Rush for talented app makers continues. 6waves Lolapps is announcing it has created a $10 million fund to invest in mobile and social game developers. The so-called 6L Fund will help the company find talented developers, fund their …
South Korean online gaming powerhouse Nexon has invested in social gaming firm 6waves Lolapps, VentureBeat has learned. The investment, which is expected to be announced shortly, comes on the heels of the merger of two major social gaming firms, 6waves …
Two leading social game companies — 6waves and Lolapps — are merging today in order to form a more powerful challenger to market leaders such as Zynga and Electronic Arts.
It’s a sign of the inevitable consolidation in social games, …
