Big Fish Games launches first real-money gambling game in the U.K. via Betable alliance

The Big Fish Casino game lets you choose if you want to play for fun or gamble with real money.

Weekend warriors: Track your fitness with Novusport’s social mobile sports game

Novusport measures and ranks your activity. The more you play sports, the more you score.

Facebook’s tips for getting your mobile game noticed

Mobile games are so plentiful that discovering the right one has become a nightmare. But Facebook believes that it has a solution in layering its own social network on mobile gaming platforms such as the iPhone and Android. By making …

Gameloft Live enters the social mobile fray on Android, coming to iOS soon

Global games publisher Gameloft announced today its new gaming hub service, Gameloft Live. In a move that should surprise no one, the company has taken the concept and the name of a console gaming service (Xbox Live) and repurposed it …

Heyzap unveils 12 partners for its social discovery network for mobile games

Heyzap, operator of a social mobile gaming network, has unveiled a list of 12 mobile gaming leaders that are partnering with it to promote mobile games.

The partners include Spacetime Studios, Nubee, PocketGems, Bionic Panda Games, Magma Mobile, GameDuell, Digital …

6waves Lolapps acquires mobile game maker Escalation Studios

6waves Lolapps said today it has acquired Dallas-based mobile game maker Escalation Studios. The move is part of a concerted effort by the social game publisher to get big in mobile. Terms of the deal were not announced.

San Francisco-based …

Zynga launches Scramble With Friends for iPhone

Some of the most popular mobile games are simple ones. With that in mind, Zynga is launching Scramble With Friends on the iPhone and iPod Touch today.

The game is part of Zynga’s strategic expansion into mobile games, a market …

Gree shows off its global social gaming platform

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 …

MindJolt gets a third of its revenues from social mobile games

MindJolt got a lot of goodness with its acquisition of mobile game maker SGN back in April. Mobile game revenues now account for a third of MindJolt’s revenue and the company recently released five more mobile games.

The results show …