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SupersonicAds Gets $4.2 Million for In-Game Ads Platform
London — SupersonicAds, a social in-game advertising platform developer, raised $4.2 million from Greylock Partners to help compete with other international markets.
The new funding...
Wooga Goes Mobile, Starting with 'Diamond Dash'
Germany — Social game developer wooga announced Tuesday at a Casual Connect conference in Seattle, Wash., that it is expanding its business into mobile....
Live Gamer Acquires Brandport and GamerDNA
New York — Live Gamer, a game e-commerce and advertising firm, has acquired both Brandport and GamerDNA as part of a move into the...
Games Are Serious Business: Electronic Arts Buys PopCap
Electronic Arts Inc. has agreed to acquire PopCap Games Inc. in a deal that could be worth $1.3 billion, depending on the casual game...
Video Games Industry Grows Digitally
Spending on video games went up to $5.9 billion in the U.S. during the first quarter, an increase of 1.5 percent over the same...
Retro Games Part of Marvel's Transmedia Strategy
Marvel.com launched a free videogame as an element in the buildup to the feature film Captain America: The First Avenger, which opens on July...
Zynga's 'PrivacyVille' Eases Players' Concerns
San Francisco, Calif. — Zynga launched an educational game Thursday that guides players through different aspects of user privacy, then rewards them for successful...
Apple's App Downloads Surpass 15 Billion
San Jose, Calif. — Apple Corp. announced Thursday that over 15 billion apps have been downloaded from its app store from more than 200...
Gaming Revenue to Exceed $74 Billion in 2011
San Francisco, Calif. — Consumer spending on video game software and hardware is expected to hit $74 billion this year, research group Gartner predicted...
Gamevil Establishes Partnership Fund
Gamevil, a mobile game publisher and developer located in the U.S. and Korea, announced that it had earmarked $10 million to invest in partnerships...
