Arkadium went 12 years without raising money, but now it's doubling down.
Wooga is one of the most successful casual games publishers to date. In this video, founder and CEO Jens Begemann talks about starting Wooga, keeping a healthy company culture, dealing with Facebook – and his thoughts on the hype surrounding startups in Berlin.
Fifty-two million Hispanics live in the U.S., and many of them are avid gamers.
Developers will be able to use YoYo Games' GameMaker: Studio to publish easily on Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8.
Guest Post Any yahoo can publish a game these days. Yet today's market still demands of the specialization of the past, allowing the creator to focus on creating and the distributing to focus on marketing. And this relationship matters more now than ever before in Digital Publishing 2.0.
Jens Begemann still believes in Facebook, but the CEO of Wooga is also expanding into mobile social games.
Editor's Pick Zynga's weak earnings report yesterday has spurred an investor panic, cratering the company's stock price by 39 percent today.
WildTangent's move into the mobile space suggests that many companies are still staking their claims in hopes of getting rich in the gold rush.
Sponsored Post In this video interview, King.com chief executive Riccardo Zacconi discusses his company's rise to the No. 2 spot amongst Facebook game publishers...
Oberon Media is no more. Say hello to Iplay.
The new brand identity reflects an expansion of the company’s game offerings, products and services. The company has rolled out a new technology platform, has added a new executive team, and …
Good news for all you mobile game developers out there: Zynga, now a public company, has a big chunk of available cash on hand and says it’s aggressively looking for the next big thing to spend part of its $1.8 …
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Zynga’s purchase of OMGPOP for a price reported to be around $150 million to $200 million has drawn mixed reviews on Wall Street. The deal gives Zynga the team that made Draw Something, a Pictionary-style mobile game that has been …
Welcome to the wild world of mobile gaming, where a new king can be crowned in the span of three weeks, and a struggling company can become the most sought after acquisition on the market.
OMGPOP knew it had to …
Canadian interactive TV game publisher TransGaming has acquired the TV game division assets of Oberon Media, a publisher of casual games, for $7 million.
Toronto-based TransGaming said the deal would bring it a recurring multimillion-dollar annual revenue stream generated from …
Gamers have downloaded game developer Rovio’s Angry Birds, a popular iPhone slingshot-style game franchise, more than 350 million times, the company’s general manager Andrew Stalbow said today.
Mobile device users play the game for more than 300 million minutes each …
Perfect World, one of the largest online game operators in China and east Asia, announced today that it will invest $100 million in a venture capital fund.
The company will join the unnamed fund as a limited partner to invest …
Zynga‘s quest is to get the whole world to play social games. To make that happen, the company has to set up payment mechanisms in countries where credit cards aren’t the norm. So the company is announcing today that it …
Angry Birds maker Rovio is in the process of a fundraising round that would value the company at $1.2 billion, according to a report by Bloomberg.
That would make the casual games company worth more than Plants vs. Zombies creator …
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The King of Code contest is sponsored by Windows Phone and is open to developers on any mobile platform.
Game developer P.J. Snavely got his start at age 9 hacking into published games on his Commodore 64. Today, he …
Supergiant video game publisher Electronic Arts has acquired casual game maker PopCap for $650 million in cash and $100 million in stock. The deal includes a multi-year earn out bonus, but there were no details released about it.
PopCap is …
