Ever since the Justice Department opened the door to the legalization of online gambling, the leading creators of social games are feeling increasingly lucky. PopCap Games just launched Lucky Gem Casino with a collection of seven slot machines themed after …
Perhaps it’s time to start calling it Words With Friends With Benefits.
Fans of Zynga‘s Words With Friends social game on Facebook are making love connections. For Valentine’s Day, Zynga polled 100,000 of its 19.9 million players and found that …
Making Fun, the social game division of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., has launched a hidden object game called Hidden Haunts that will set itself apart via photorealistic scenery. The game is part of the company’s strategy to become a major …
Hasbro and Zynga are announcing a deal where the big toy company will create toys based on Zynga’s game characters and social gaming brands. It’s a marriage of the old new game worlds that makes sense as the physical and …
Social gaming firm Kabam said today it has signed a multi-year lease on a “spectacular” new office in downtown San Francisco. The move shows that the city is ground zero for the social game industry.
Kabam‘s 450 employees will now …
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 …
Mark Pincus is the newest billionaire in Silicon Valley, thanks to the December initial public offering of Zynga, the social game giant he founded in 2007.
For much of last year, Zynga was in a quiet period leading up to …
Spil Games said today that it has 170 million monthly active visitors to its various teen-girl-focused game sites.
People who play the free-to-play social games, where users can play for free and pay real money for virtual goods, spend as …
King.com has more than 150 games on the web. In the past year, it successfully moved five of the games to Facebook, garnering 23.8 million monthly active users on the social network. And today, the company is launching its first …
Do gambling and Facebook games go together?
Slot machine maker International Game Technology answered that question with a resounding “Yes!” when it bought Double Down Interactive, a 70-person Facebook casino game studio, for $500 million on Jan. 13. Zynga’s shares …
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 …
Slot machine maker International Game Technology said Thursday it will buy Double Down Interactive for $500 million in cash. Double Down, based in Seattle, makes Facebook games such as the DoubleDown Casino.
Publicly-traded IGT is branching out into new types …
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 …
Watch out, Facebook. Google is making its own game for Google+ … and it involves maps.
Yesterday, the company released a video of the new game, which takes advantage of its Google Maps product. The video shows a cube …
People who cheat at social games are cheaters in real life too. So says a survey by casual game maker PopCap Games.
The survey looked at the habits of more than 1,200 adult consumers. Of those who admit cheating, the …
Hardcore game veterans who worked at the now-defunct Pandemic Studios have started a new social game studio called Seismic Games. Unveiled for the first time today, Seismic plans to create games that are social, but at the same time it …
Facebook announced Thursday evening that it has made updates to its platform to improve game usage and discovery of new apps.
The social network said it made changes to the platform based on tests that showed it could drive re-engagement …
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 …
Zynga’s stock sank 5 percent yesterday, from $10 to $9.50, on its first day of trading. Some investors might feel like the stock will bounce back on Monday or in the weeks ahead. But at least one analyst is staying …
As the founder of Social Gaming Network, Shervin Pishevar squared off against Zynga in the early days of social gaming. But Pishevar veered off into iPhone gaming while Mark Pincus stayed put on Facebook with social games.
The consequences of …
