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Americans Played Anything but Social Games During the Holidays
The number of people playing games on Facebook tanked last week, as some game makers were unable to capitalize on people’s downtime during the holidays. The drop-off in players affected almost all...
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Zynga Confirms It Is Seeking Partners for Online Gambling Initiatives
Zynga is getting ready to try its hand at online gambling. The company has confirmed to All Things D that it is actively investigating several opportunities, and is in talks with several partners about...
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Ex-PopCap Developer Looking for New Ways to Monetize Mobile Games
Free apps today are primarily monetized through advertising or virtual goods. But one of PopCap’s original developers, Roy Liu, believes he has come up with an alternative. Gimmie, based in San...
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Visa Places Bet on New Approach to Payments With Rare Investment in TrialPay
Visa, Greylock’s Reid Hoffman and others are pouring $40 million into TrialPay, which helps companies like Facebook, Gap and Fandango increase sales through the use of incentives. The Mountain View,...
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Stuck Like Glue: Zynga Accounts for 12 Percent of Facebook Revenue in 2011
Zynga is mentioned 24 times in Facebook’s filing, but the most notable mention is related to the game company’s huge contribution to the social network’s top line. Facebook said today in its filing...
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Can There Be Another Rovio? Outfit7 Wants to Give It a Shot.
Outfit7 says its games on the iPhone and iPad have hit more than 300 million downloads since launching a year and a half ago. At that size, it claims to have outpaced Rovio’s Angry Birds, which took 20...
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Disney Hopes Brands Are the Best Protection Against Social Gaming Copycats
Disney’s next game on Facebook takes its inspiration from the company’s Animal Kingdom Park in Orlando, where 1,700 animals inhabit 500 acres. And because of its strong association with a brand, the...
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Amazon Matches Apple's Revenue Split for In-App Payments
Starting today, Amazon is finally giving developers in its Appstore the opportunity to sell digital content and subscriptions within their apps. As part of the announcement, the retailer is also...
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Zynga Accounted for 15 Percent of Facebook's Revenues in Q1, Down From Last Year
Zynga doesn’t report first-quarter earnings until Thursday, but Facebook let the cat out of the bag a little early today in an updated regulatory filing for its upcoming public offering. Before you get...
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Is Zynga Becoming Less Dependent on Facebook?
Just as I said yesterday, analysts have started to do their best to spell out what Facebook’s first-quarter results mean for Zynga. In a lengthy analysis done by Robert W. Baird & Co., the...
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Zynga Reports Higher Revenues, Loss in First Quarter
Zynga reported a net loss of $85 million, or 12 cents a share on revenues of $329 million, in the first quarter ended March 31. When excluding some charges, including stock-based compensation, the...
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As Nintendo Fades, Zynga Continues to Grow
It’s a battle between Mario and the farm, and the farm seems to be winning. Yesterday, Nintendo reported an annual loss — its first in more than three decades — after revenues fell 36 percent. Hours...
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Zynga's Top-Performing Game? Yep, Still FarmVille.
Despite launching three long years ago, the Facebook game FarmVille continues to be Zynga’s runaway hit. In the company’s first-quarter report, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission...
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E3 Interview: EA's Riccitiello Promises to Make "Eyeballs Peel"
There’s no doubt it has been a tough year for Electronic Arts and its CEO John Riccitiello. Over the past 12 months, the gaming giant’s stock has been cut in half, falling to $13.12 a share, down from...
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Hints of an Ad Network, but No Ad Network: First Facebook Ads Appear on...
You may notice something different while goofing off at work playing FarmVille this morning: The first Facebook ads are appearing on Zynga.com’s in-game pages, marking the first time ever that the...
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Zynga's Stock Pops Based on a High Chance of Meeting Low Expectations
Ahead of Zynga’s second-quarter earnings report on Wednesday, the company’s stock gained 6 percent on the strong likelihood that it will meet — but not beat — analyst expectations. Companies normally...
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Amazon's New Game Studio Targets Facebook First, but Mobile Is Next
Amazon has launched its first game on Facebook, but don’t expect the e-commerce giant to stop there. Over the past two months, the company has made several announcements in the videogame space,...
View ArticleFacebook Makes Subscription Payments Available to All Developers
Facebook is opening up subscription services to all applications on the social network starting today. Now, if developers want to, they can provide premium versions of a game, or access to virtual...
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Amazon Expanding In-App Purchases to Include the Sale and Delivery of...
In what is one of the best demonstrations of Amazon’s tablet and commerce businesses coming together, the company is letting developers sell physical goods inside of their games with one click. While...
View ArticleAmerican Express Poaches Boku CTO Erich Ringewald
A second executive from Boku, a mobile payments company in San Francisco, has signed on with American Express. Erich Ringewald, who was Boku’s co-founder and CTO, will join the company as VP of...
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