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 …

Game developers salivate over the new iPad’s specs

The new iPad’s high-end specifications are perfect for game developers and will up the ante when it comes to building better graphics into their games.

The new iPad has a much better Retina Display, with a resolution of 2,048 x …

HTML5 versus Adobe Flash (infographic)

One of Steve Jobs’ last major acts before passing was to launch an attack on Adobe Flash. Mobile Apple devices began blocking Flash-powered content, and Apple even went so far as to prevent iOS developers from using Flash — one …

DeanBeat: The iPhone fairy tale comes true for Russia’s Cut the Rope developers

The iPhone fairy tale is becoming a familiar one for game developers: A small indie developer creates a hit, people love it, and it spreads like wildfire through the App Store. Tens of millions or hundreds of millions of downloads …

Kiip and GameSalad integrate ad-based rewards directly into game development platform

Kiip and GameSalad are announcing a partnership today that could ensure lots of new mobile games will have ad-based rewards baked into them from the start.

Kiip has a reward system that gives people real-world prizes for achievements in games. …

Former EA leader Jamil Moledina switches focus to cross-platform social games

Jamil Moledina envisions a future in which all games are cross-platform. And to help make that future a reality he left a job at video game giant Electronic Arts to take on the role of vice president of business development …

Facebook game leaders: We’re not worried about Google+ games

For now, Facebook’s gaming managers aren’t worried about the competition from Google+. If they keep doing a good job growing the engagement and monetization of users on their own platform, they expect that game developers, users, and Facebook itself will …