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 …
When Zynga goes public at the opening bell tomorrow at $10 a share, it will be more valuable than video game giant Electronic Arts.
Zynga’s $10 a share opening price gives it a valuation (with options included) of $8.9 billion, …
Zynga is expected to go public any day now. The social game maker could raise more than $1 billion at a valuation of $8.9 billion as it seeks to spread its social games to all platforms where gamers congregate.
Founded …
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 …
Google announced today that its three-year effort to create a muscular browser technology that can run heavy duty apps such as console-like games is now ready for prime time.
Google has provided the platform to allow games to run in …
When credible reports about Zynga’s upcoming IPO filing started flying this July, expectations for the social gaming giant’s value were running $15 billion to $20 billion. Now, with Zynga detailing the offering ahead of trading set to start December 15th, …
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Three years ago, Mark Pincus told me that he was going to make Zynga more valuable than EA within five years. It took him only two.
Zynga is a remarkable venture story, and the company’s impending IPO is a huge …
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 …
The holidays came early for a lot of gamers in November, with releases ranging from Uncharted 3: Drake’s Fortune to Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 and the Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword.
Starting Friday, everybody else will start piling …
Disney has hired away OnLive executive John Spinale to be the new head of the Disney Interactive Media Group’s social games business.
Spinale will run the social game business, which includes Disney’s Playdom division, and report to John Pleasants, co-president …
Owen Van Natta, the chief business officer at social game maker Zynga, is stepping down from that post and moving to a new role as a strategic advisor focused on major partnerships.
He will remain on the board but will …
The market for social games in Brazil is expected to grow as large as $238 million by 2014, according to a study released by social research firm SuperData. That’s a significant increase from the $136 million the market is expected …
More and more game companies are turning to the HTML5 web format to create cross-platform games. The latest is Pangalore, a social and mobile game startup based in Seoul.
Pangalore was founded in May to create games that can run …
Social game maker Zynga formally launched CastleVille as part of its accelerated release schedule for games in advance of its planned initial public offering.
Zynga has high hopes for this addition to its Ville series of games — YoVille, PetVille, …
Two reports released this week show the continuing growth and potential market dominance of digital and mobile gaming.
The number of Americans who play at least one hour of video games per month has more than doubled over the last …
Elvis lives. So does Marilyn Monroe. And other dead celebrities may come back to life thanks to Retro World, a new game launching today on Facebook from Entertainment Games.
The title is hoping to cash in on the nostalgia factor …
Zynga reported net income of $12.5 million in the third quarter ended Sept. 30, down 54 percent from $27 million a year ago, according to an updated S1 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The performance isn’t stellar, but …
Hope springs eternal for new social game companies. Row Sham Bow, a social game company based in Orlando, Fla., is launching its new social game Woodland Heroes today.
Four years after the founding of Zynga, social game makers are still …
Zynga may be losing some ground after spending years completely dominating the Facebook social gaming market.
Facebook today announced that it is changing the way it counts the number of active users who access an application on its site, a …
Social gaming giant Zynga has decided to list its shares on the tech-heavy NASDAQ stock exchange, according to a recent filing with the securities and exchange commission.
The NYSE has dueled with the NASDAQ stock market to attract high-profile tech …
