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| Nov 1, 2012 | Developer support builds for Ngmoco’s mobile social gaming network | DeNA’s Ngmoco division said today it has signed up 10 more game developers to publish games on its Mobage global mobile social gaming network.
The 10 new independent social and mobile game developers will bring their games to the Mobage net... |
| Oct 6, 2012 | Not Safe. Why Mobile Social Games Are Just As Vulnerable As Zynga | Editor’s note: Tadhg Kelly is a game designer with 20 years experience. He is the creator of leading game design blog What Games Are, and consults for many companies on game design and development. You can follow him on Twitter here.
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| Aug 30, 2012 | Two Years Post-Acquisition, Ngmoco Axes Bulk Of Staff At iOS Game Studio Freeverse | Mobile gaming outfit Ngmoco has swung the ax on Freeverse, the Mac and iOS game development studio it acquired back in February 2010. Today Ngmoco, which is now owned by Japanese mobile gaming giant DeNA, laid off the bulk of Freeverse’s st... |
| Apr 25, 2012 | Japan’s DeNA signs up Kabam and Nimblebit | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Japan’s DeNA mobile social gaming network has signed up a couple of key American game partners as it expands in the U.S.
Ngmoco, the U.... |
| Apr 25, 2012 | Japan’s DeNA signs up Kabam and Nimblebit | Japan’s DeNA mobile social gaming network has signed up a couple of key American game partners as it expands in the U.S.
Ngmoco, the U.S. division of DeNA, said that hardcore social gaming firm Kabam has agreed to publish games on the Andro... |
| Mar 19, 2012 | Neil Young’s path to the multibillion-dollar mobile social game market (interview) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Neil Young sold his San Francisco startup Ngmoco to Japan’s DeNA for $403 million in the fall of 2010. And that was just the beginning ... |
| Feb 8, 2012 | DeNA Has Big Quarter, Acquiree Ngmoco:( Has Layoffs | Japanese mobile gaming giant DeNA bought mobile app developer Ngmoco last year for $400 million. Since then, the company has acquired a range of other outfits and worked to tie the San Francisco startup in with everything else it does.
In g... |
| Jan 11, 2012 | Ngmoco Partners With Glu Mobile To Bring Gun Bros To Mobage | Following its November partnership with TinyCo, social games outfit ngmoco (now a DeNA-owned company) is partnering with game publisher Glu Mobile, Inc. The deal will brings Glu’s popular Gun Bros game to ngmoco’s Mobage gaming platform for... |
| Nov 10, 2011 | Ngmoco And TinyCo Partner To Bring TinyCo Games To Mobage | Social games outfit ngmoco, now a DeNA-owned company, is partnering with indie mobile game developer TinyCo in order to bring TinyCo’s games to Android and the Mobage social gaming platform. The first two titles to be ported over are Tiny C... |
| Oct 13, 2011 | Mobile social games firm Ngmoco hires chief marketing officer | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Mobile social games firm Ngmoco has hired a former Mattel executive, Michael Staskin, as its chief marketing officer. His job will be t... |
| Aug 23, 2011 | Ngmoco names TV veteran as chief operating officer | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Mobile gaming firm Ngmoco has named a TV executive as its new chief operating officer. The move positions Ngmoco to offer broader enter... |
| Aug 4, 2011 | Ngmoco And AT&T Partner To Bring Social Gaming Platform Mobage To Android Users | AT&T and mobile social games company ngmoco, which is owned by Japanese gaming giant DeNA, have just announced a pretty significant agreement to bring the Mobage social gaming platform to AT&T Android customers.
According to a relea... |
| Jul 26, 2011 | DeNA and Ngmoco launch Mobage mobile social network across globe | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
DeNA and its American subsidiary Ngmoco announced today they have launched the Mobage mobile social network in English-speaking territo... |
| Jul 16, 2011 | Reflections on GamesBeat 2011 and the road ahead in mobile games | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Our well-attended GamesBeat 2011 conference took place this week, and here’s what you missed.
As I noted in a preview story on mobile g... |
| Jun 13, 2011 | Check out the latest speakers for GamesBeat 2011 | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Today we’re revealing the third set of speakers for our third annual GamesBeat 2011 conference. Our slate of speakers will include Bing... |
| Jun 13, 2011 | Check out the latest speakers for GamesBeat 2011 | Today we’re revealing the third set of speakers for our third annual GamesBeat 2011 conference. Our slate of speakers will include Bing Gordon, partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and the former chief creative officer at Electro... |
| Jun 2, 2011 | Ngmoco prepares for Mobage mobile social game network launch | Ngmoco, the mobile gaming startup that was acquired by Japan’s DeNA last year, is preparing to launch its social network for mobile games in the global market.
DeNA already operates the Mobage mobile social network in Japan, where it has a ... |
| Jun 2, 2011 | Ngmoco prepares for Mobage mobile social game network launch | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Ngmoco, the mobile gaming startup that was acquired by Japan’s DeNA last year, is preparing to launch its social network for mobile gam... |
| May 18, 2011 | ngmoco Acquires Mobile Games Developer (And Longtime Partner) Rough Cookie | Exclusive – U.S.-based mobile games developer ngmoco was acquired by Japanese social games publisher DeNA in October 2010, but that doesn’t mean it stopped looking at opportunities to grow through acquisitions of its own, particularly in re... |
| Apr 19, 2011 | VCs see tough and exciting landscape for game startups | The game industry has gotten a lot of love from venture capitalists lately. For many years, VCs invested a small amount of money into games compared to other hot investments such as social media. But in the age of Facebook and mobile gaming... |
| Apr 19, 2011 | VCs see tough and exciting landscape for game startups | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The game industry has gotten a lot of love from venture capitalists lately. For many years, VCs invested a small amount of money into g... |
| Mar 17, 2011 | Ngmoco’s We Rule logs 3 billion minutes of game play in one year | When Ngmoco launched its We Rule kingdom-building game on the iPhone a year ago, it had high hopes. The game was a high-quality title offered for free and meant to take advantage of Apple’s in-app purchase feature for selling virtual goods.... |
| Mar 17, 2011 | Ngmoco’s We Rule logs 3 billion minutes of game play in one year | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
When Ngmoco launched its We Rule kingdom-building game on the iPhone a year ago, it had high hopes. The game was a high-quality title o... |
| Mar 16, 2011 | HeyZap Goes After Social Discovery, Launches Check-in For Mobile Games | Heyzap, a monetization and distribution platform for online casual games, announced today that it’s going mobile. Launching a social discovery application for mobile games on Android, the startup will be bringing the 1.6 million users it ha... |
| Mar 11, 2011 | Ngmoco’s Neil Young foresees multibillion-dollar mobile game companies | Neil Young is the chief executive of Ngmoco, the mobile game publisher that was acquired by Japan’s DeNA for up to $403 million last fall. But Young says that wasn’t just the end point for his company and its success as a publisher of iPhon... |
| Mar 11, 2011 | Ngmoco’s Neil Young foresees multibillion-dollar mobile game companies | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Neil Young is the chief executive of Ngmoco, the mobile game publisher that was acquired by Japan’s DeNA for up to $403 million last fa... |
| Dec 15, 2010 | DeNA and Ngmoco will launch global mobile social network, starting with Samsung phones | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Japan’s DeNA and its Ngmoco subsidiary plan to launch a worldwide mobile social gaming network starting in April. As part of that effor... |
| Dec 15, 2010 | DeNA and Ngmoco will launch global mobile social network, starting with Samsung phones | Japan’s DeNA and its Ngmoco subsidiary plan to launch a worldwide mobile social gaming network starting in April. As part of that effort, Samsung‘s Android phones will use the DeNA Mobage mobile social network.
The mobile social gaming plat... |
| Dec 2, 2010 | Ngmoco to take hit iPhone game Pocket God to Android and Windows Phone 7 | Game maker Ngmoco will make its debut on two new mobile operating systems by taking its hit iPhone game Pocket God to Android and Windows Phone 7.
Pocket God launched in 2009 and has sold more than 3 million copies. It was the indie hit of ... |
| Dec 2, 2010 | Ngmoco to take hit iPhone game Pocket God to Android and Windows Phone 7 | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Game maker Ngmoco will make its debut on two new mobile operating systems by taking its hit iPhone game Pocket God to Android and Windo... |
| Nov 2, 2010 | Casual-game maker OMGPOP pulls in funding; proves social games are still hot | Let’s take a break from all the serious discussion about violent video games for a second and look at casual games startup OMGPOP, which could raise up to $10 million in its current fundraising round, according to a report from All Things D... |
| Oct 14, 2010 | DiscoveryBeat 2010’s latest speakers: Kleiner Perkins’ Bing Gordon and more | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Bing Gordon is sitting pretty in the new gaming gold rush that’s all social and mobile. A partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Bye... |
| Oct 14, 2010 | DiscoveryBeat 2010’s latest speakers: Kleiner Perkins’ Bing Gordon and more | Bing Gordon is sitting pretty in the new gaming gold rush that’s all social and mobile. A partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, he has been the critical consigliere for sizzling startups Ngmoco and Zynga, which have already gener... |
| Oct 12, 2010 | Ngmoco aims to be part of a global social mobile gaming company | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Neil Young, chief executive of iPhone game maker Ngmoco, said in an interview today that he agreed to sell his company to Japan’s DeNA ... |
| Oct 12, 2010 | Japan’s DeNA buys iPhone game publisher Ngmoco for up to $400M | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Japan’s DeNA said today it is buying Ngmoco for up to $400 million in cash and stock in the biggest iPhone-related acquisition to date.... |
| Oct 12, 2010 | Ngmoco aims to be part of a global social mobile gaming company | Neil Young, chief executive of iPhone game maker Ngmoco, said in an interview today that he agreed to sell his company to Japan’s DeNA for $400 million because of a shared vision to build the world’s top social mobile gaming company. DeNA a... |
| Oct 12, 2010 | DeNA to Buy Ngmoco for $403M | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
San Francisco-based iPhone game developer Ngmoco confirmed today on its blog that it will be acquired by DeNA, Japan’s largest maker of mobile games. DeNA said it would pay $4... |
| Oct 12, 2010 | Japan’s DeNA buys iPhone game publisher Ngmoco for up to $400M | Japan’s DeNA said today it is buying Ngmoco for up to $400 million in cash and stock in the biggest iPhone-related acquisition to date.
The deal will create a powerhouse in mobile social gaming, as DeNA is big in Japan, and San Francisco-ba... |
| Oct 8, 2010 | DeNA buying ngmoco for $400 million (report) | Big Japanese mobile gaming company showing a continual interest in Silicon Valley developers
DeNA, a big mobile gaming company in Japan, is in talks to acquire San Francisco-based iOS game developer ngmoco for as much as $400 million, accor... |
| Oct 7, 2010 | Japan's DeNA Mulling $400+ Million Acquisition of ngmoco | Japanese gaming company DeNA is considering an acquisition of San Francisco-based ngmoco, we’ve heard from multiple sources. The price, says one source, is north of $400 million, although that probably includes a very large earnout. ngmoco ... |
| Sep 17, 2010 | Google's Investment Pays Off: Ngmoco Building Plus+ And Games For Android | There’s no absolute formula for success in the mobile app world — but if there was, ngmoco would probably be amongst those closest to having it figured out. Just about everything they touch (Gun Range, WeFarm, Rolando, and their Plus+ gamin... |
| Aug 13, 2010 | Funding roundup - week ending 08/13/10 | Empire Avenue, Marginize, Medialets, ngmoco, TransFS, and WePay: six awesome startups raise funds
This week we've got a social network for buying and selling shares in people and brands, yet another browser sidebar for commenting on Web pag... |
| Aug 11, 2010 | Google Ventures Invests In iPhone Game Developer ngmoco | Google Ventures, the VC arm of the search giant, has made an investment in popular iPhone/iPad game developer ngmoco, say multiple sources. The company, which is already profitable, took the money as part of a new round of funding — probabl... |
| Aug 11, 2010 | Google Ventures reportedly invests in Apple game maker Ngmoco | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Google Ventures has made an investment in iPhone game publisher Ngmoco, according to a report by Techcrunch.
Techcrunch said that the v... |
| Aug 11, 2010 | Google Ventures reportedly invests in Apple game maker Ngmoco | Google Ventures has made an investment in iPhone game publisher Ngmoco, according to a report by Techcrunch.
Techcrunch said that the venture capital arm of Google has made an investment in Ngmoco. That’s startling in part because Ngmoco ha... |
| Jun 24, 2010 | iPhone 4 + Gyroscope + Gaming = All Kinds Of Awesome [Video] | In terms of the hardware, one of the only completely new features on the iPhone 4 is the gyroscope. It’s so new, in fact, that third-party developers haven’t had a chance to play around with it yet because they didn’t have access to the iPh... |
| Jun 7, 2010 | VentureDeal Releases Reports on Q1 VC Funding: ECommerce and Wireless Tech Show Dramatic Increases | According to reports by the venture capital database, VentureDeal, overall venture funding for Internet technologies in the first quarter of 2010 held steady compared to the last quarter of 2009.
These reports assess four sectors: alternati... |
| May 12, 2010 | Ngmoco acquires iPhone game developer Stumptown | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Ngmoco announced today that they’ve acquired fellow iPhone developer Stumptown Game Machine, which developed Touch Pets Dogs exclusivel... |
| May 12, 2010 | Ngmoco acquires Stumptown Game Machine | iPhone gaming companies looking to build the next big hit...
Ngmoco (ngmoco), a popular iPhone gaming app developer, announced it's acquired Stumptown Game Machine, another game developer. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Stumptown... |
| May 12, 2010 | Ngmoco acquires iPhone game developer Stumptown | Ngmoco announced today that they’ve acquired fellow iPhone developer Stumptown Game Machine, which developed Touch Pets Dogs exclusively for Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch in collaboration with Ngmoco in November 2009. The game immediately t... |
| Apr 9, 2010 | Social-game platform makers: “Welcome, Apple. Seriously.” | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
On Friday, Apple announced that it would create its own social platform for games, dubbed Game Center. It’s a place where iPhone, iPod ... |
| Apr 9, 2010 | Social-game platform makers: “Welcome, Apple. Seriously.” | On Friday, Apple announced that it would create its own social platform for games, dubbed Game Center. It’s a place where iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad users can go to socialize with the gaming friends and discover new games. That could help... |
| Apr 6, 2010 | Positronic man and galactic trickster examine primitive tricorder | Q (John de Lancie) and Data (Brent Spiner) rock out with an iPad loaded with Ngmoco stuff. I love it. |
| Apr 5, 2010 | John Doerr: The Next Big Thing | This guest post was written by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers partners John Doerr, Bing Gordon, Chi-Hua Chien and Ellen Pao. We covered KP’s increase in the size of the iFund last week, and additional insights from KP’s Matt Murphy on... |
| Mar 10, 2010 | Mobile game makers: Windows vs. OS X is over, Android vs. iPhone has just begun | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
One thing was crystal clear during today’s mobile games panel at GamesBeat@GDC: Mobile is the next competitive frontier in the game ind... |
| Mar 10, 2010 | Mobile game makers: Windows vs. OS X is over, Android vs. iPhone has just begun | One thing was crystal clear during today’s mobile games panel at GamesBeat@GDC: Mobile is the next competitive frontier in the game industry. The big battle between PCs and Macs is fading into the background, replaced by a new (even more ho... |
| Mar 10, 2010 | Microsoft Gets Mobile Gaming Right. Apple, Sony, Google Should Follow | The Game Developers Conference barely started, but surprising news is already here: Windows Phone 7 games will integrate avatars, gamer handles, and other profile info from the massively popular XBox Live community.
From Kotaku:
Windows Pho... |
| Feb 22, 2010 | iPhone Game House ngmoco Raises $25 Million Series C, Buys Freeverse | Neil Young, the CEO of iPhone game startup ngmoco, wants to “amass enough scale” to accelerate “away from the pack.” He just raised a $25 million series C round and acquired Freeverse, another top iPhone game developer, to help ngmoco keep ... |
| Feb 22, 2010 | Game maker ngmoco raises $25M, buys Freeverse | Can ngmoco become the Zynga of iPhone games? The two look surprisingly similar. Can ngmoco become the Zynga of iPhone games? $25 million says yes. That’s how much the company just raised in a round led by Institutional Venture Partners, wit... |
| Feb 22, 2010 | Ngmoco raises $25M for iPhone games, acquires Freeverse | Making a bigger push into games on the iPhone, Ngmoco has raised $25 million in a third round of venture capital and also acquired iPhone game developer Freeverse.
The round was led by Institutional Venture Partners and included existing sh... |
| Feb 22, 2010 | Ngmoco raises $25M for iPhone games, acquires Freeverse | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Making a bigger push into games on the iPhone, Ngmoco has raised $25 million in a third round of venture capital and also acquired iPho... |
| Feb 12, 2010 | Classic brands vs a new breed of iPhone games | Big brand game developers like EA and Sega just aren't getting it when it comes to porting to iPhone
iPhone games have come a ways. Over the past year or so, we've seen the rise of rich 3D shooter games like Gameloft's NOVA, or wild air com... |
| Jan 13, 2010 | SGN Founder Steps Aside. Randy Breen Takes CEO Role | SGN, a mobile gaming platform and publisher based in Silicon Valley, has named former EA and LucasArts executive Randy Breen as CEO. Founder and former CEO Shervin Pishevar continues at the company as executive chairman. Breen first joined ... |
| Dec 3, 2009 | More speakers for DiscoveryBeat: hi5’s Alex St. John, Ngmoco’s Neil Young, Greystripe’s Michael Chang | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
We’re excited to announce new speakers and program content for DiscoveryBeat, VentureBeat’s event exploring how to get apps noticed in ... |
| Dec 3, 2009 | More speakers for DiscoveryBeat: hi5’s Alex St. John, Ngmoco’s Neil Young, Greystripe’s Michael Chang | We’re excited to announce new speakers and program content for DiscoveryBeat, VentureBeat’s event exploring how to get apps noticed in an age of noise. The event takes place Dec. 8 at the Automattic Lounge on Pier 38 in San Francisco. We’ve... |
| Nov 4, 2009 | Ngmoco scores with iPhone games that charge per time played | With a new game, a new business model, and a new developer platform, iPhone game publisher Ngmoco has been able to land itself on the top of the AppStore charts.
Ngmoco’s Eliminate Pro shooting game moved to the No. 1 spot on Apple’s app do... |
| Nov 4, 2009 | At The Top Of Its Game, And The App Charts, Ngmoco Bets Its Future On In-App Purchases | On Monday, ngmoco released worldwide its latest game for the iPhone and iPod Touch: Eliminate Pro. It’s been downloaded 500,000 times so far at a rate of about 25,000 an hour, currently making it the top free app in iTunes. The top paid app... |
| Nov 4, 2009 | Ngmoco scores with iPhone games that charge per time played | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
With a new game, a new business model, and a new developer platform, iPhone game publisher Ngmoco has been able to land itself on the t... |
| Sep 6, 2009 | HaveASec: A Survey Platform Optimized For Mobile Devices | When it comes to developing mobile applications, one of the biggest problems developers have is collecting user feedback. Even the iPhone App Store, which features user reviews and star ratings, is often loaded with comments that skew eithe... |
| Jul 31, 2009 | Double Down, But Only On The Right Hand | Last weekend, we watched Casino Royale on the beach in Slovenia, just up the Adriatic coast from Montenegro, where the story takes place. I love the scenes at the poker table, particularly the one where Bond goes all in and loses all his mo... |
| Jun 15, 2009 | iPhone game startup Ngmoco hires top Sega executive | The iPhone keeps playing its siren song. And video game executives are falling for it.
Ngmoco, a high-profile iPhone game startup, is announcing today that it’s lured a top Sega of America executive as its new chief publishing officer. Simo... |
| Jun 15, 2009 | Ngmoco Hires Away Sega President Simon Jeffery To Head Up iPhone Game Network | iPhone game developer ngmoco is announcing today its own cross-promotion publishing network fro iPhone games. The publishing network, called Plus+, will be headed up by Simon Jeffery, the current president and COO of Sega of America. Prior ... |
| Mar 24, 2009 | Gaming platform debate: Is the iPhone the future? | We had representatives from Facebook, MySpace, PlayStation, and Nokia discussing new gaming platforms today at our GamesBeat 2009 conference in San Francisco, but most of the passionate debate revolved around a company that wasn’t there — A... |
| Mar 23, 2009 | Ngmoco raises $10 million | San Francisco based, ngmoco, closes $10 million in financing for its popular iPhone games
The iPhone has been a great platform for game developers. Every week, new games are released on the phone and small companies are making money for the... |
| Dec 29, 2008 | Review: Dr. Awesome Micro Surgeon M.D. for iPhone | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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| Sep 17, 2008 | iPhone venture capital iFund begins blogging | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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| Jul 31, 2008 | Kleiner Perkins' iFund Invests In Stealth Gaming Startup ngmoco | Kleiner Perkins is adding to its iFund portfolio of iPhone-focused startups. It’s latest investment is a series A round in stealth gaming company ngmoco. Kleiner partner Bing Gordon, formerly chief creative officer of Electronic Arts, will ... |
