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Facebook creates dedicated European games team

Facebook creates dedicated European games team

Europe 'most interesting region' in terms of innovation, claims new division head

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PopCap returns with Facebook casino game

PopCap returns with Facebook casino game

Lucky Gem Casino offers virtual currency gambling

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Zynga shares plunge 18% in single day

Zynga shares plunge 18% in single day

Yet analyst remains hopeful of long-term success for the Facebook games firm

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App Store Charts: Week 7

App Store Charts: Week 7

Armor Games' Kingdom Rush tops the iPad paid for list

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Angry Birds turns free for Facebook

Angry Birds turns free for Facebook

Virtual power-ups to monetise social game

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GREE announces a round of hiring for new studio

GREE announces a round of hiring for new studio

Mobile Social Games company to set up shop in the China Basin

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Nabeel Hyatt steps down as Zynga Boston head

Nabeel Hyatt steps down as Zynga Boston head

General manager leaves social media company for venture fund

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Google takes a cautious approach to games

Google takes a cautious approach to games

Search engine giant wants to avoid games spam on its social network

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Facebook Credits 'not helping conversion rates'

Facebook Credits 'not helping conversion rates'

Developers say mandatory payment system amounts to a twenty percent net tax

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Halfbrick's Fruit Ninja sells 500k on Kinect

Halfbrick's Fruit Ninja sells 500k on Kinect

Console experiment adds to studio success as Jetpack Joyride passes 14m downloads

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$445m in Q3 revenues for DeNA's mobile network

$445m in Q3 revenues for DeNA's mobile network

Japanese mobile social gaming company revenues up 16%

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Tiga: UK must escape 'no IP, no royalty' trap

Tiga: UK must escape 'no IP, no royalty' trap

Digital platforms allow devs to circumvent publisher contracts entirely, says O'Luanaigh

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Facebook made $450m from Zynga sales in 2011

Facebook made $450m from Zynga sales in 2011

Deal between social giants expires May 2015

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Crytek cloud gaming service begins

Crytek cloud gaming service begins

GFACE enables users to stream 'console quality' games through their browser

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EA delays 'major' social game

EA delays 'major' social game

Unnamed title based on 'key piece of the EA brand IP'

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Zynga: Improving others' innovations is fair game

Zynga: Improving others' innovations is fair game

Facebook games group denies culture of kleptomania

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Bigpoint surpasses 250 million registered users

Bigpoint surpasses 250 million registered users

Free-to-play giant 'attracting 250,000 new players a day'

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Spil users 'spend up to £38/month on virtual goods'

Spil users 'spend up to £38/month on virtual goods'

'More than 170 million unique users playing our games every month', claims publisher

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Facebook $100bn IPO 'may start this week'

Facebook $100bn IPO 'may start this week'

Online kingpin could submit papers within a matter of days

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Tagged dumps Hi5's third-party dev platform

Tagged dumps Hi5's third-party dev platform

Social network to shift focus to titles developed in-house

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Zynga's new hope branded 'Tiny Tower clone'

Zynga's new hope branded 'Tiny Tower clone'

'Pretty sad when a company of 2,789 people can't even come up with their own game ideas', says indie dev

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Zynga 'losing $150 on every new paying customer' [Update]

Zynga 'losing $150 on every new paying customer' [Update]

Social games giant has 'spent $120 million on acquiring new users', claims analyst

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PopCap axes game played by 750,000 people

PopCap axes game played by 750,000 people

Real money invested into in-game virtual currency irredeemable and not transferable to other titles

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Zynga buys more studios as analyst concerns grow

Zynga buys more studios as analyst concerns grow

Hidden Chronicles and Scramble With Friends fail to match previous success, analyst says

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Gaikai and cloud gaming 'coming to Facebook'

Gaikai and cloud gaming 'coming to Facebook'

CLOUD GAMING EUROPE: David Perry says 'core' games could be next for the social network

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