March 5th, 2013
Sony is to sell its shares in Japanese social games firm DeNA to Nomura Securities for around 40.9bnYen (£0.29bn), as it continues to look for ways to raise cash. Sony said that the sale came as part...
February 22nd, 2013
Social games developer Wooga has revealed that its revenue is split 50/50 between web and mobile, just 14 months after launching its first mobile game, Diamond Dash. Wooga founder and CEO Jens Begemann...
February 19th, 2013
GREE and Yahoo Japan have created a new joint venture, GxYz, which will focus on social games for smartphones. The news follows a deal between the two companies in November last year to develop a business...
October 22nd, 2012
Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello expressed some rather frank views about the social gaming sector at the Global Mobile Internet Conference Silicon Valley in California last week, including the blunt...
October 19th, 2012
Maybe those social games aren’t as addictive as we once though: a new survey from Playnomics has found that 85% of social gamers in the US do not return to a game after the first day’s play. Equally...
October 5th, 2012
Tough times for social games publisher Zynga, which told Wall Street that it expects to post a net loss of between $90m and $105m for the third quarter of this year, while also lowering its outlook for...
October 1st, 2012
We've not heard of Playrock or its parent company Blenture before, but count us intrigued by its plans for "a social gaming network where you can play with people who are next to you".
The company has...
September 27th, 2012
Social music game SongPop has launched a new in-game chat feature, while also announcing a milestone of 30m players.
The game is available on Facebook, iOS and Android, and is published by FreshPlanet....
September 25th, 2012
Two of the most popular Facebook/iOS social games, Bingo Bash and Kingdoms of Camelot, have now made the leap to Android.
Bingo Bash is the work of developer BitRhymes, with 2.3m monthly active users...
