The DeanBeat: Game acquisitions rise 23 percent to $3.4B in 2012

January 25, 2013 8:00 AM Dean Takahashi
Dean Takahashi

Editor's Pick The game industry set a new record for the money spent on acquisitions, but the number of deals dropped.

GamesBeat Weekly Roundup

May 18, 2012 11:59 AM Jasmine Maleficent Rea
Jasmine Maleficent Rea

If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best games stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.

Zynga acquires Wild Needle casual game maker for an estimated $3.8M

May 14, 2012 8:22 AM Dean Takahashi
Dean Takahashi

Zynga acquired Wild Needle, a casual game company that had backing from Playdom co-founder Rick Thompson, according to TechCrunch.

We’ve heard that the purchase price was $3.8 million, but the companies involved still haven’t acknowledged the deal. Wild Needle was …