Casual game developer Wooga experiments with new genres and platforms in 2013
It has four games scheduled for release in the next two months: Pearl's Peril, Kingsbridge, Pocket Village, and Monster World mobile.
It has four games scheduled for release in the next two months: Pearl's Peril, Kingsbridge, Pocket Village, and Monster World mobile.
Jens Begemann still believes in Facebook, but the CEO of Wooga is also expanding into mobile social games.
Editor's Pick After Zynga, the second-biggest player on Facebook isn't Electronic Arts anymore. It's Wooga, a Berlin-based studio that has become Europe's largest social game publisher with more than 49 million monthly active users on Facebook.
Now Wooga has raised $24 million in venture capital and has grown to more than 150 employees. The company now faces a number of strategic decisions, such as doubling down on Facebook or spreading out to platforms such as Google+ or Zynga.com. We caught up with co-founder Jens Begemann at the recent Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Here's a transcript of our interview.
Chances are you haven’t heard of social game maker Wooga. But thanks to the popularity of its social game Diamond Dash, the German company is now the third-largest social game maker on Facebook. Now the company is preparing to take …
Wooga says it has become the fastest-growing social game developer on Facebook, and the company announced today that it has raised $24 million in a second round of funding.
The funding shows that social gaming is still hot and that …