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Read More »PopCap axes 730,000-user Facebook game
EA PopCap has dropped ZipZapPlay’s Facebook game Baking Life, despite the title having almost three quarters of a million players. The free-to-play game will close at the end of the month. Users who have bought in-game currency using real money will not be able to use this in other PopCap-owned …
Read More »Gaikai and cloud gaming ‘coming to Facebook’
CLOUD GAMING EUROPE: David Perry says 'core' games could be next for the social network
Read More »Playdom to publish Spry Fox indie title
Partnership 'could bring millions of new players' to Triple Town, says Disney exec
Read More »NEW YEAR, NEW JOB: Havok on harnessing social media
Daily advice on job hunting from the industry's top companies. Today: tips from Havok on using social media to get a job
Read More »Team 17 takes over Iguana assets
Staff and more head to the studio that made its name with Worms
Read More »Zynga settles CityVille copyright lawsuit
Social games giant Zynga has ended its legal action on Brazilian games firm Vostu for alleged copyright infringement. Zynga took legal action on Vostu in June for ‘infringement of its creative works’ including titles such as Zynga’s popular Facebook game CityVille. Now Vostu has agreed to pay a fee to …
Read More »Zynga set its value at $7 billion
Firm's stock market launch due December 15th
Read More »Signs point to Facebook IPO in New Year
Social networking behemoth Facebook could be eyeing up the long awaited transition to a public company with an IPO that could amount to $10 billion. On Monday theWall Street Journal suggestedthat Facebook is looking to kick off the IPO between April and June of 2012. The deal could be based …
Read More »Mafia Wars 2 ‘loses 900,000 users since October’
Less then ten per cent of users returning to play title every day, new data suggests
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