Germany’s Kamicat raises funds for social, mobile, and web games

Kamicat's soccer game will now benefit from marketing promotion from iVenture's portfolio company Traffic Captain.

Game developers revive Sissyfight as an open-source online game about sexism

The original creators seek to relaunch Sissyfight as an online multiplayer game.

Zynga to publish Disruptor Beam’s Game of Thrones: Ascent social game

Game of Thrones Ascent has gained 500,000 users in two months, and now Zynga will promote it to its 250 million monthly users.

Zynga to shut four more weak games, including The Ville

Zynga also killed two unreleased games, but it is on the verge of launching Draw Something 2.

Hold on, mobile gaming monetization ain’t as easy as it looks

Mobile-game monetization rates are worse than social and other game platforms.

In the battle for talent, Warner Bros. will open game studio in San Francisco

With all the news of studio closures, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment shows the digital side of the industry is growing.

After great success on mobile, Kabam launches new Hobbit game on the web

Kabam returns to Facebook in a big way with the launch of a new Hobbit game.

What it means to be a ‘whale’ — and why social gamers are just gamers

"Whales" are more than dollars signs -- they're regular gamers with an obsession and social lives that extend beyond the game.

TastemakerX’s new game for music snobs nabs $1.25M to improve artist discovery

Gritting your teeth long enough to ask music snobs what they've been listening to usually provides much better results than most of social music discovery technologies.

Red Hot Labs raises $1.5M for mobile games and a platform to make them spread

The company includes members of the team that created Zynga's smash hit social game FarmVille.

Zynga shuts Baltimore studio and consolidates three other locations

Closures are part of Zynga's strategy to contain costs using "guard rails."

Cmune raises funding for first-person shooters on mobile and Facebook

Will first-person shooters emerge as a big market on social and mobile platforms?

Gree and Yahoo Japan invest $2.2M in GxYz social-gaming business

The joint venture will bring about social games on smartphones.

Half the Sky Facebook game to create awareness about sex slave trafficking

The project shows that social games can inspire social change.

Facebook touts why its social network makes mobile games better

The giant social network claims that players who find games on Facebook spend more time in the corresponding apps and are more likely to spend money on those titles.

King.com’s Candy Crush Saga beats Zynga with top social-mobile game

For the first time in years, Zynga does not have the top game in daily users on Facebook.

Kabam acquires Vancouver studio Exploding Barrel Games

Exploding Barrel Games worked on Margaritaville and is making free-to-play mobile and social games now.

The end is near: 11 Zynga games are victims of cost-cutting

Zynga is shutting down 11 games soon as part of a cost-cutting measure, according to TechCrunch. The free-to-play games are either unpopular or are older titles that stopped monetizing well. Still, some of those, like PetVille (pictured above), had millions …