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| Jan 8, 2012 | Facebook Adds In-Game Offers Option For All Developers, Hoping To Further Diversify Revenue | Facebook has just started letting any developer on its platform run advertising offers that pay out directly in the native currency of their games. Let’s say you’re playing Ravenskye City, a new simulation-exploration game from Lolapps, and... |
| Oct 13, 2011 | The Helsinki Spring | I spent the month of September lecturing, and interacting with (literally) thousands of entrepreneurs in two emerging startup markets, Finland and Russia. This is the first of two posts about Finland and entrepreneurship.
I was invited to F... |
| Oct 7, 2011 | The Helsinki Spring | Entrepreneurship in Finland I spent the month of September lecturing, and interacting with (literally) thousands of entrepreneurs in two emerging startup markets, Finland and Russia. This is the first of two posts about Finland and entrepre... |
| May 3, 2011 | EA Acquires Australian Mobile And Online Games Developer Firemint | Electronic Arts (EA) has acquired Firemint, a privately held mobile development studio based in Melbourne, Australia.
Firemint is the 60-people strong company behind games like Flight Control (see video below) and Real Racing.
EA says the d... |
| Mar 25, 2011 | Flurry Launches Support Program For Game Developers, Nabs Director From Playfish | It appears there’s an arms race taking place in the mobile gaming world, and as is often the case in Silicon Valley, it starts with engineering and development talent. Google, for one, took some serious measures at the end of last year to s... |
| 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 25, 2010 | Why social game maker Zynga wants a patent on virtual currencies | Zynga, the creator of social networking games like FarmVille and Mafia Wars, has filed a patent on purchased in-game currency.
Online games have long offered virtual currencies, usually earned by performing actions within a game. The curren... |
| Sep 1, 2010 | Electronic Arts' Madden game hits Facebook | EA hopes to usurp Zynga's dominance as the leading social gamer
If Electronic Arts wants to usurp Zynga's dominance on Facebook, it may have to attract a whole new group of users with its flagship games.
By bringing its well-established Mad... |
| Aug 21, 2010 | Netlog Taking Gaming Seriously, Prepares For US, Dubai Expansion (TCTV) | Netlog, the company that sagely changed its name from Facebox in 2007, is taking this gaming thing pretty seriously. While the bread and butter of the Belgium-based operation is still social— with 69 million members on its youth-centric soc... |
| Aug 10, 2010 | Online and mobile games should generate more revenue than console games | The video games industry is big and getting bigger. But it’s changing. Console games are getting riskier to make, while online and mobile games are taking over the market (see my updated Global Video Games Investment Review, which I’ll be u... |
| Aug 10, 2010 | Online and mobile games should generate more revenue than console games | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The video games industry is big and getting bigger. But it’s changing. Console games are getting riskier to make, while online and mobi... |
| Jul 19, 2010 | Serious Gaming: Looking Ahead to Casual Connect | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
As a newly recruited tech writer here at Xconomy Seattle, I feel I have to be straight with you and reveal a potentially career-threatening secret: I have never been to a gami... |
| Jun 19, 2010 | EA Playfish racks up stats with first branded soccer game, FIFA Superstars | Electronic Arts’ Playfish division rolled out its first major sports title under the EA Sports brand a few weeks ago, and the title has now racked up some interesting stats.
This game, a soccer title dubbed FIFA Superstars, is a big deal in... |
| Jun 19, 2010 | EA Playfish racks up stats with first branded soccer game, FIFA Superstars | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Electronic Arts’ Playfish division rolled out its first major sports title under the EA Sports brand a few weeks ago, and the title has... |
| May 27, 2010 | Andreessen Horowitz Makes Strategic Investment In Mobile Payments Platform Boku | Recently-launched mobile payments startup, Boku, has announced that they have received a strategic investment from VC firm Andreessen Horowitz. Boku has declined to reveal the funding amount from this round, but to date the company has rais... |
| May 14, 2010 | EA Playfish exec touts next-generation Facebook games | Sebastien DeHalleux was the No. 2 executive at Playfish when Electronic Arts acquired the social game company for as much as $400 million in November. At that time, EA was slashing its staff in traditional console games, and its big bet was... |
| May 14, 2010 | EA Playfish exec touts next-generation Facebook games | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Sebastien DeHalleux was the No. 2 executive at Playfish when Electronic Arts acquired the social game company for as much as $400 milli... |
| Apr 20, 2010 | EA Playfish exec: the billion-dollar social game is achievable | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Someone is going to create a social game that pulls in a billion dollars a year in short order, said Sebastien DeHalleux, vice presiden... |
| Apr 20, 2010 | EA Playfish exec: the billion-dollar social game is achievable | Someone is going to create a social game that pulls in a billion dollars a year in short order, said Sebastien DeHalleux, vice president of business development and strategy at EA Interactive and former chief operating officer of EA’s Playf... |
| Mar 5, 2010 | It's a Wrap! Playfish Announce Winners of Pet Society Movie Awards | The BAFTAs are behind us, the Oscars are in front of us, and in the middle, filling the film season void, is the Pet Society Movie Awards. Playfish, the organisers of this glittering new entry onto the awards circuit, are pleased to today u... |
| Jan 26, 2010 | Never Mind the Valley: Here’s London | A settlement for nearly 2,000 years, London is today the most populous greater metropolitan area in Europe with over 13 million residents. Home to popular tourist locations such as Big Ben, The London Eye and Buckingham Palace, London’s sky... |
| Jan 19, 2010 | Mobile Payments Startup Boku Lands $25 Million In Funding; Rebrands Service As Paymo | Mobile payments for micro-transactions on the web are steadily gaining traction. This morning, the space received more validation as several prominent venture capital firms made a significant a investment in recently launched mobile payment... |
| Dec 28, 2009 | Tech trends for 2010 — a Netscape moment coming up | [Bernard Moon works for the Lunsford Group.]
When I made my tech trend predictions for 2009, we were in the middle of an economic meltdown. This year, I’m less focused on the recession and — thanks to my one-year old twin girls — am wading ... |
| Dec 7, 2009 | Turning the tables, Playfish clones Zynga’s poker game on Facebook | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
In the fast-growing social games business, Zynga has proven to be a master of copycatting. Playfish, by contrast, has created a number ... |
| Dec 7, 2009 | Turning the tables, Playfish clones Zynga’s poker game on Facebook | In the fast-growing social games business, Zynga has proven to be a master of copycatting. Playfish, by contrast, has created a number of original titles that have been copied by others.
But today, Playfish is turning the tables with the la... |
| Dec 3, 2009 | Twitter, Amiando, Obopay, And Playfish Are Named Technology Pioneers By The World Economic Forum | Every year the World Economic Forum picks a couple dozen or so up-and-coming technology startups from around the world and dubs them Technology Pioneers. In the past, Technology Pioneers have included Google and Mozilla. Last year, Mint, Et... |
| Nov 30, 2009 | Serious Business looks for life beyond Friends For Sale! | Friends For Sale!, the game where people can “buy” other people as if they are pets, has had tremendous staying power as a popular app on Facebook.
Launched in November 2007, the social game has attracted more than 25 million registered use... |
| Nov 30, 2009 | Serious Business looks for life beyond Friends For Sale! | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Friends For Sale!, the game where people can “buy” other people as if they are pets, has had tremendous staying power as a popular app ... |
| Nov 16, 2009 | Inspired by Nintendo Wii, Playfish CEO tries to broaden appeal of social games | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Playfish scored big last week as Electronic Arts said it would buy the social gaming company for as much as $400 million. That’s a rema... |
| Nov 16, 2009 | Inspired by Nintendo Wii, Playfish CEO tries to broaden appeal of social games | Playfish scored big last week as Electronic Arts said it would buy the social gaming company for as much as $400 million. That’s a remarkable achievement for a company that is just a couple of years old. It’s a validation of the fast growth... |
| Nov 11, 2009 | Exclusive: Playdom Raises A Huge Round At A Huge Valuation | It’s only a day after one of the big three social game developers, Playfish, announced a $400 million acquisition.
And today we’ve confirmed that another one, Playdom, has done its own massive deal: $43 million on a $260 million pre-money v... |
| Nov 9, 2009 | Electronic Arts buys Playfish for as much as $400 million | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Electronic Arts confirmed rumors this morning as it acquired Playfish for $300 million in cash and stock. The move gets EA into the soc... |
| Nov 9, 2009 | EA acquires Playfish for at least $275M | Game developer for social sites like Facebook attracts big money from big game publisher Electronic Arts, one of the world's largest third-party game publishers, announced today the acquisition of social gaming startup Playfish for at least... |
| Nov 9, 2009 | Electronic Arts buys Playfish for as much as $400 million | Electronic Arts confirmed rumors this morning as it acquired Playfish for $300 million in cash and stock. The move gets EA into the social gaming market on Facebook in a big way.
The value of the deal — $275 million in cash, $25 million in ... |
| Nov 6, 2009 | Announcing DiscoveryBeat: The event about how to get your app noticed | VentureBeat is throwing a new mini-conference and networking event, DiscoveryBeat.
DiscoveryBeat addresses one of the biggest conundrums for Silicon Valley’s most dynamic startups and developers: How to get your social game or mobile applic... |
| Nov 6, 2009 | Announcing DiscoveryBeat: The event about how to get your app noticed | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
VentureBeat is throwing a new mini-conference and networking event, DiscoveryBeat.
DiscoveryBeat addresses one of the biggest conundrum... |
| Nov 5, 2009 | Spore Islands launches on Facebook as EA tries social games expansion | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Rumors persist that Electronic Arts plans to buy social gaming startup PlayFish to break into the fast-growing market of Facebook games... |
| Nov 5, 2009 | Spore Islands launches on Facebook as EA tries social games expansion | Rumors persist that Electronic Arts plans to buy social gaming startup PlayFish to break into the fast-growing market of Facebook games.
In the meantime, EA continues to expand into social games on its own. Today, it launched Spore Islands,... |
| Nov 3, 2009 | Offers controversy stirs reactions across social networking industry | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
A relatively obscure part of the social networking business has come into the limelight. It’s about special ads known as “offers” that ... |
| Nov 3, 2009 | Offers controversy stirs reactions across social networking industry | A relatively obscure part of the social networking business has come into the limelight. It’s about special ads known as “offers” that are used to monetize free social games. These offers are like the ads that promise you a discount on your... |
| Oct 29, 2009 | Netlog launches Gatcha!, a cross-network social game distribution platform | I’m currently blogging from a boat, rented by Belgian social network operator Netlog to host about a hundred of their closest business partners for a presentation about their freshly redesigned website and a roadmap of what’s in store for t... |
| Oct 26, 2009 | Norwest’s Tim Chang explains why virtual goods are so hot in social games | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Tim Chang, principal at Norwest Venture Partners, has immersed himself in the online games sector for some time and he says that the ho... |
| Oct 26, 2009 | Social Games: How The Big Three Make Millions | CrunchBase Profile Zynga Playfish Playdom
Location: San Francisco, CA London, UK Mountain View, CA
Money Raised: $39M $21 Million $0
Revenue: Estimated $200M Estimated $75M Estimated $60M
Rumors: Strong 2010 IPO candidate Possible acquisiti... |
| Oct 26, 2009 | Norwest’s Tim Chang explains why virtual goods are so hot in social games | Tim Chang, principal at Norwest Venture Partners, has immersed himself in the online games sector for some time and he says that the hottest business model for game startups in 2009 is virtual goods. With the virtual goods business model, g... |
| Oct 23, 2009 | Hold'em Or Fold'em? Looks Like Playfish Is Still In Play | Last week we reported the rumors that VC-backed Playfish, the social games startup which has had phenomenal growth, was in the process of being acquired by games giant Electronic Arts for $250 million. However, nothing was confirmed at the ... |
| Oct 23, 2009 | Hold everything – Playfish is still in play | Last week we reported the rumors that VC-backed Playfish, the social games startup which has had phenomenal growth, was in the process of being acquired by games giant Electronic Arts for $250 million. However, nothing was confirmed at the ... |
| Oct 16, 2009 | Has Playfish exited to EA for $250m? The VC chatter says yes. | [UK] In the last couple of days there has been enormous speculation in the games industry that Accel-backed Playfish – the Facebook social games startup which has amassed 60 million users with games like Restaurant City – has been bought by... |
| Oct 15, 2009 | The making of Zynga’s Cafe World, the fastest growing social game in history | When Cafe World debuted on Facebook on Sept. 30, it lit up the social network immediately. The title, a simple simulation where you make food and run a restaurant, took off faster than any other social game in history.
In its first seven da... |
| Oct 15, 2009 | The making of Zynga’s Cafe World, the fastest growing social game in history | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
When Cafe World debuted on Facebook on Sept. 30, ... |
| Oct 1, 2009 | Audio interview with Kristian Segerstrale, CEO Playfish | I caught up with Kristian Segerstrale, CEO of Playfish at an event in London today. I asked him about the latest moves at Playfish, what he thinks of Facebook’s recent move away from applications to Facebook Connect and where he thinks it’s... |
| Sep 17, 2009 | Playfish keeps expanding in social games with new San Francisco studio | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Social games makerPlayfish is one of the fastest-growing companies in its field. Today, the company announced that it is opening a new ... |
| Sep 17, 2009 | Playfish keeps expanding in social games with new San Francisco studio | Social games makerPlayfish is one of the fastest-growing companies in its field. Today, the company announced that it is opening a new game development studio in San Francisco.
Even in a recession, it’s clear that social game companies such... |
| Sep 1, 2009 | The Mobile Payments Rivalry Heats Up | Mobile payments for micro-transactions on the web are catching wind and there are several players in the space vying for the top spot in the field. Today, Boku, a recently launched mobile payments conglomorate of sorts, is announcing a slew... |
| Sep 1, 2009 | Games Gone Wild: social gaming just keeps getting hotter | Where commercial success leads, boozy networking events are sure to follow. And so it is with next Wednesday’s Games Gone Wild, a London event put together by Mind Candy‘s Michael Smith (@acton).
Actually, that’s not entirely fair. Games Go... |
| Aug 17, 2009 | Jambool Raises $5 Million For Its Social Gold Micropayments Platform | Jambool, the startup behind the Social Gold micropayments platform, has closed a $5 million funding round led by Madrona Venture Group, with Bay Partners participating as well. The company has now raised around $6 million, after a $1 millio... |
| Jun 12, 2009 | Social game company Zynga says it’s not planning for IPO | Rumors circulated earlier today that leading social game company Zynga could have an initial public offering within 18 months. Here’s what chief executive Mark Pincus says in response: “Zynga is a young company focused on building great soc... |
| Jun 7, 2009 | Playfish excels with quality cross-platform games | In the dimly-lit world of social networking applications, companies tend to privately trash each other — often quite accurately. You hear things like “so-and-so always sends spammy invites” or “so-and-so has a suspect means of making money.... |
| May 12, 2009 | Disciple Is A Real-Time Player-To-Player Fantasy Battlefield For Adults | Casual head to head games, also known as synchronous or real-time games, are becoming increasingly popular on the web. Geewa, Zynga, and Playfish all offer real-time synchronous social games where you can play against another player live, n... |
| May 8, 2009 | Facebook platform developers could see $500M in revenue this year | A growing number of game makers on Facebook are making money from virtual goods — from poker chips to virtual clothes that users can buy or earn while playing gaming applications with their friends on Facebook. The combined ecosystem of the... |
| Apr 3, 2009 | Challenge Your Facebook Friends To A Geewa Game Via Chat | Casual gaming on the Web is quickly moving to the social networks, where people can play with their friends. Just this week, multiplayer casual games site Geewa launched three of its most popular games on Facebook: 8-ball Pool, Backgammon, ... |
| Apr 3, 2009 | Rumor: Zynga making more than $50 million on virtual goods | While Asian web companies are making millions if not billions of dollars on virtual goods, it hasn’t been clear how the business model is panning out in other parts of the world. So here’s another data point. Maybe.
We’re hearing a rumor si... |
| Mar 30, 2009 | Adobe, Facebook introduce new Flash developer tools | Adobe and Facebook are trying to make it easier for any web developer to build Flash-based games and other applications using Facebook data, by co-releasing a new Actionscript 3 client library. Flash is already used in a wide variety of onl... |
| Mar 23, 2009 | GamesBeat 2009 just about sold out; follow us online! | GamesBeat 2009 is our inaugural conference for the gaming industry, and it’s about to sell out. It takes place tomorrow, March 24, at the Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco, CA.
The excitement around GamesBeat is a great example... |
| Mar 19, 2009 | Kontagent brings analytics to Facebook Connect for the iPhone | Another piece of the Facebook developer ecosystem has arrived on the iPhone: Advanced analytics software made by Kontagent. Facebook developers moving to the iPhone, as well as existing iPhone developers, can now get the benefit of the comp... |
| Mar 14, 2009 | Facebook's Dave Morin On The Search for a More Social Web; Connect Comes To The iPhone | We’re here at SXSW, where Facebook’s Senior Platform Manager Dave Morin is speaking about The Search for a More Social Web.
He says that computers have largely been antisocial – it was only with the advent of the computer that we’ve been pl... |
| Mar 6, 2009 | Some Indie Facebook Developers Pulling In Over $700,000 A Month | The mass media may be enamored of the rags-to-riches stories of developers on Apple’s App Store, but it isn’t the only game in town for indie developers to strike it rich. We’ve gotten word from SocialMedia, a popular ad platform for social... |
| Mar 3, 2009 | Index Ventures: Good News for European Start-Ups | Index Ventures today announced the closing of a 350 million early-stage fund, Index Ventures V. Early stage? Wow! And early stage + Europe = Double Wow! How does Index Ventures raise such big funds for early-stage ventures when most invest... |
| Mar 3, 2009 | Index Ventures infuses biotech and cleantech with $438.8M | Index Ventures just announced the closure of a $438.8 million fund intended to finance young biotechnology and cleantech portfolio companies. This is the sixth seed and early-stage fund the London-based firm has raised. Perhaps best know fo... |
| Nov 1, 2008 | Funding roundup: Playfish, Helium raise $17M | Playfish, Helium, TuneCore, and iStores receive funding this week Here's a roundup of companies in the mobile, video, digital media, social network, and advertising sectors that announced their funding this past week.
Playfish raised $17 mi... |
| Oct 28, 2008 | London's Playfish raises $17m series B round | London-based Playfish – which we speculated at one point was doing very well out of its social games on Facebook – has raised a whopping $17 million series B round led by Accel Partners and Index Ventures. This confirms the growing view tha... |
| Oct 28, 2008 | Playfish Gets $17 Million More For Social Games | Over the past year video games have begun invading every computing platform, from social networks to mobile devices. They’ve also been picked up in the portfolios of a number of firms.
London based Playfish has just raised a $17 million ser... |
| Sep 1, 2008 | Is Playfish the 'million dollar a month' facebook developer? | Recently the Facebook watching blog AllFacebook claimed:
There’s a pretty well known secret among top Facebook application developers: one developer is generating over $1 million a month. Who is that developer exactly? Well, most people won... |
| Mar 11, 2008 | Playfish pulls in $3M seed for social gaming | Another social, casual gaming startup has brought in an initial investment for development, with several games lined up for release this year.
Playfish, which is based in London, already has a game called Who Has The Biggest Brain? on Faceb... |
| Mar 3, 2008 | 10 Social Apps Demo at GSP West | Tonight at the Graphing Social Patterns, 10 social applications gave demonstrations for the GSP West AppNite. The first six applications were Facebook Apps and the last four were Open Social applications. Facebook Applications
Who Has the B... |
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