Entries in ‘Casual & Social’ (431)

CityVille smashes 100m monthly user milestone

CityVille smashes 100m monthly user milestone

Facebook game draws record numbers in just over a month, eclipsing FarmVille

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Mobile studio buyout hunt for thriving Artix

Mobile studio buyout hunt for thriving Artix

RPG specialists also looking for social and browser developers

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PopCap expands to Windows Phone in hiring spree

PopCap expands to Windows Phone in hiring spree

Plant vs Zombies studio to double size of 60-man studio

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Zynga buys web browser owner

Zynga buys web browser owner

VC-funded social media firm Flock the latest Zynga firm

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Bigpoint begins mobile push

Bigpoint begins mobile push

Starting with iPhone, iPad and Android

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Christmas sales gift for OpenFeint

Christmas sales gift for OpenFeint

Firm enjoys strong growth over the holiday period across iOS and Android

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Zynga's CityVille breaks new ground

Zynga's CityVille breaks new ground

Latest free-to-play game attracting over 84.2m users each month

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Facebook IPO debate as value jumps to $50bn

Facebook IPO debate as value jumps to $50bn

Goldman Sachs and DST investment points to 2012 IPO

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PopCap ponders going public before 2012

PopCap ponders going public before 2012

Developer prepares year-long hiring spree

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Can London drive growth in the UK games industry?

Can London drive growth in the UK games industry?

New Develop feature explores the city?s growth prospects

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Zynga ups assault on mobile games

Zynga ups assault on mobile games

A HTML5 edition of Mafia Wars launches worldwide

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40% of all internet users play online games

40% of all internet users play online games

Spil Games new report highlights the ongoing rise of the online gaming space

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Facebook alternative provides 100m users

Facebook alternative provides 100m users

Viximo firm grows by offering devs access to other social networks

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Microsoft?s Bing turns games platform

Microsoft?s Bing turns games platform

Social game Happy Island to be directly playable in search engine

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Bigpoint boasts 1bn transactions per day

Bigpoint boasts 1bn transactions per day

Online gaming firm driven by microtransactions

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DeNA signs significant Android deal

DeNA signs significant Android deal

Major coup as the Mobage platform will be pre-loaded into Samsung smartphones

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Zynga accumulates 26m Cityville users in 2 weeks

Zynga accumulates 26m Cityville users in 2 weeks

The social game giant could surpass revenues of $400m for the calendar year

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Ngmoco owner DeNA wants Zynga collaboration

Ngmoco owner DeNA wants Zynga collaboration

'There is collaboration opportunity maybe more than competitiveness' says CEO Namba

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DeNA 'interested in Euro studio buyouts'

DeNA 'interested in Euro studio buyouts'

CEO Tomoko Namba says many Japanese tech firms are interested in buyouts abroad

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Bigpoint joins new rush of Chrome devs

Bigpoint joins new rush of Chrome devs

Social games giant adds to over 200 games on the browser-game store

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Google launches Chrome app store

Google launches Chrome app store

FIFA, Madden and FarmVille already available for new browser-based platform, with Mirror's Edge on the way

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Rebellion turns to Facebook platform

Rebellion turns to Facebook platform

Aliens vs Predator studio releases social game Evil Genius

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EA: The non-connected games model is finished

EA: The non-connected games model is finished

Electronic Arts to trial new digital price-points and free-to-play models, Gibeau reveals

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Social and mobile gaming 'not integrated enough'

Social and mobile gaming 'not integrated enough'

EA co-founder Trip Hawkins discusses the 'echo' between two merging game spaces

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Harrison: Browsers hold key to industry?s future

Harrison: Browsers hold key to industry?s future

?Over 68 per cent of game VC funds are for online games?

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