ZeptoLab is cashing in on its Cut the Rope smartphone game — which has been downloaded more than 100 million times — by announcing several licensing deals today with Hasbro, Mattel, JAKKS Pacific, and apparel company LF USA.
The merchandising …
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 …
Flaregames has raised 6 million euros, or $7.9 million, in a funding round led by Accel Partners. The money will help beef up the company founded by Klaas Kersting, who also founded Germany’s Gameforge.
Kersting’s Karlsruhe, Germany-based Flaregames is focused …
Edutainment startup Fingerprint Digital says its first five educational gaming apps for children have seen a 150 percent increase in game play minutes in the last month, demonstrating success in what the company says is a largely untapped market.
Fingerprint …
Zynga confirmed the names of four mobile game companies that it has acquired in recent months, according to Reuters.
The company did not disclose the sums paid for those companies, which make smartphone and tablet games. In an interview with …
Bionic Panda Games has raised seed financing to develop mobile games for Google’s Android operating system, the company announced today. Not surprisingly, Google Ventures is one of the backers.
San Francisco-based Bionic Panda got its start in 2010 and has …
The social and mobile games gold rush inspired lots of investments in 2011, as venture capitalists tried to find the next Zynga. But the year was also a big one for acquisitions, particularly as big companies such as Electronic Arts …
Social gaming giant Zynga has hired Electronic Arts’ top mobile and social executive Barry Cottle as Zynga’s new executive vice president of corporate and business development.
The hire is a big development in the war for talent between the two …
Moblyng was ahead of its time in making cross-platform HTML5 games for mobile devices. Too far ahead, it seems, as the company has shut down, VentureBeat has learned.
Just a year ago, the company said in a filing it had …
Betting big on Microsoft’s multi-platform game strategy, Arkadium is announcing a three-year strategic partnership to develop and publish games for Microsoft’s current and future game platforms, from the Windows PC to future software running on smartphones and tablets.
Kenny Rosenblatt, …
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 …
The Flash game market is thriving. Developers have sprouted up around the world. They’re creating mobile games based on their Flash web games, and they are making more money and getting stronger traffic, according to a survey of more than …
The older you are, the more likely you are to buy virtual goods in mobile social games. That’s the conclusion of a survey by mobile gaming community MocoSpace.
The report found that gamers aged 25 to 35 spend the most …
Zynga has taken a beating in its first two days of trading as a public company, with the stock closing at $9.05 a share today, down almost 10 percent from its initial public offering price of $10 a share on …
The9, an online gaming company with a long history in China, said it has scored good results making games more discoverable in the China Apple App Store.
Working with OpenFeint, The9 has created its Game Zone social gaming platform to …
With the IPOs of Zynga and Nexon this week, the social and online game industries have their first billion-dollar public offerings. May many more follow.
That’s the spirit among social gaming rivals, including those that have been fierce competitors to …
Gardens of Time, the most successful Facebook game created by Disney’s Playdom, is launching today on the iPad.
The launch is a major one for Playdom, since the Palo Alto, Calif.-based division is hoping to replicate the success of the …
Red Robot Labs is a pretty young startup, founded earlier this. But the mobile game company raised $8.5 million in September and is using that money already. Today, the company is announcing it has acquired England-based game studio Supermono.
Palo …
Eager to compete with rival DeNA, Japan’s Gree has just released new details on its global social gaming platform. The borderless system will give users a single sign-on so they can play games on the network wherever they are and …
iRobot, the maker of vacuum-cleaning robots, is launching Roomba Revenge, a game app for iOS (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch) devices today.
The move seems totally out of character for iRobot given its core expertise, but lots of brands are trying …
