Big Fish Games to be acquired for $885 million by racetrack operator Churchill Downs Seattle-based Big Fish Games, one of the largest privately-held tech companies in the Northwest, has agreed to be be acquired by… Read More
Full memo: Big Fish CEO announces job cuts, cancellation of cloud games business and closure of Ireland and BC facilities It’s a bad day for Big Fish. The Seattle casual game maker today announced that it is laying off 49… Read More
Big Fish touts 2 billion game downloads, reports $220 million in bookings last year Big Fish currently sits atop the GeekWire 200 list, our ranking of the top privately-held companies in the region. And… Read More
Big Fish CEO Paul Thelen: ‘I’m an idea guy and that can be dangerous as a CEO’ Big Fish founder Paul Thelen didn’t think he’d become a technology CEO. But after an illness brought his life into… Read More
Big Fish unveils $7.99 per month cloud gaming service, streaming titles across tablets, PCs and smartphones Seattle’s Big Fish Games today unveiled a new cloud-based gaming service called Big Fish Unlimited that allows game players to… Read More
Big Fish adds Silicon Valley investor Bill Lee to board Silicon Valley investor Bill Lee, a backer of companies such as Tesla, SpaceX, Hootsuite and Zaarly, has joined the board… Read More
Here are 5 tech companies from Seattle that could take the IPO plunge in 2012 The world may be waiting on a Facebook IPO. And while there’s some chatter about whether the $5 billion public… Read More
Big Fish hooks an Angry Bird: Wibe Wagemans to head game company’s mobile unit Wibe Wagemans — who flew the coop at Angry Birds maker Rovio three months ago — just landed at Big Fish… Read More
Apple pulls subscription service from Big Fish Games, removes Play Instantly from the app store Earlier this week, Big Fish Games announced a new subscription gaming app that allowed iPhone users to pay a monthly… Read More
Big Fish pioneers new subscription game service for the iPad For years, here’s how things worked in Apple’s app store. You discovered a mobile app you liked, and then you… Read More
