Betable’s potential jackpot: Bringing real gambling to social casino games

Betable hopes to disrupt social casino games by enabling real-money online gambling in social gaming titles.

How six Lolapps developers saved their last big game, Ravenshire Castle

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 CEO leaves after acquirer lays off its developers

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 …

6L cuts its development team as it focuses on third-party game publishing

6L, the social-gaming company formerly known as 6waves Lolapps, said today that it has laid off much of its development staff.

Instead of using these staffers to create more in-house games, the company will publish games made by outside developers. …

6waves Lolapps acquires mobile game maker Escalation Studios

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 …

Nexon invests in social gaming firm 6waves Lolapps (exclusive)

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 …

Lolapps merges with 6waves to build social gaming powerhouse

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, …

Lolapps acquires a Flash game engine that makes Facebook games run fast

Aiming to deliver better graphics in social games, Lolapps has acquired the Fliso graphics engine from Sean Cooper Games and hired its creator.

The Fliso Engine is a foundation that designers can use to create games in Adobe’s Flash environment …