Report: Zynga is getting ready to pull the trigger on an IPO Fast-growing social gaming powerhouse Zynga, maker of hit games such as FarmVille and Mafia Wars, is expected to file for… Read More
Buster Benson sells popular iPhone app, focuses efforts on new social game Seattle developer Buster Benson has sold Locavore — a popular mobile application that assists people in their quest to find… Read More
PopCap releases Pop Tower on Japanese social networking site PopCap Games continues to expand in Asia, announcing today that it plans to launch Pop Tower on Japan’s largest social… Read More
PopCap’s 4th & Battery studio brings back Candy Train (this time for the iPhone) PopCap’s new game studio, 4th & Battery, is gearing up for the release of its second game. And it’s an… Read More
PopCap pushes deeper into Facebook games, buys ZipZapPlay PopCap Games is bolstering its position in social gaming, a move that comes as the Seattle game maker contemplates an… Read More
Unpleasant Horse arrives on the iPhone … ‘uncensored’ 4th & Battery’s first mobile game, Unpleasant Horse, is now available in Apple’s app store, and it arrives “totally uncensored,”… Read More
Bill Gates pledges $20M to support game-based learning The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has pledged $20 million to support new “game-based learning applications” in math, English and… Read More
PlayStation Network outage actually massive theft of personal info Sony this afternoon disclosed that an “unauthorized person” hacked into its PlayStation Network online gaming system and obtained personal information… Read More
Mobile gaming company looks to capitalize on WikiLeaks Two buddies who worked as interns for the National Security Agency in high school are now turning their attention to… Read More
Jeff Bezos-backed Social Gaming Network sells out to Chris DeWolfe’s new gig, MindJolt Chris DeWolfe, the University of Washington grad who went on to co-found MySpace, continues to reinvent himself as an online… Read More
Xbox 360 on top of U.S. console market, again Microsoft’s Xbox 360 console sold 430,000 units in the U.S. in March, up 28 percent from the same month a… Read More
Nintendo 3DS falls short of DS launch, but beats it in revenue Nintendo’s 3DS didn’t sell as many units in its U.S. launch last month as the original Nintendo DS did during… Read More
Seattle’s hottest tech neighborhood offers crappy Internet service, drug dealers Pioneer Square is undergoing a major transformation as high-tech companies such as Isilon, Zynga and Blue Nile set up shop… Read More
Zynga CEO Mark Pincus: ‘We are a confederation of entrepreneurs’ Zynga’s remarkable growth may be tied to hit games such as FarmVille, CityVille and Mafia Wars. But there’s another secret… Read More
Nintendo: ‘We don’t want to be in the phone business’ Nintendo is a master at building portable gaming gadgets, as evidenced by the recent release of the company’s 3DS device.… Read More
Nintendo releases 3DS, and it already has one huge fan in Jimmy Fallon: ‘This is insane’ Gaming nerds spent Saturday night waiting in lines across the country in order to gobble up Nintendo’s new 3DS, which… Read More
Nintendo 3DS: Ready to pay $250 for a handheld? Nintendo has said all along that people will need to see its new Nintendo 3DS to fully appreciate the glasses-free… Read More
DoubleDown touts casino game growth, taps former RealNetworks exec DoubleDown Interactive, maker of the DoubleDown Casino game, said that it has surpassed more than one million monthly users on… Read More
Ed Fries, Bill Bryant join board of profitable social gaming startup Z2Live Z2Live, maker of the popular Trade Nations game for the iPhone and iPad, has scored a new round of funding… Read More
