DeNA And ngmoco Launch Mobile Social Gaming Platform Mobage Worldwide

DeNA, GREE: Japan's Mobile Social Gaming Giants Report Impressive Financial Numbers

GREE and Mobage are brand names that don’t ring a bell with too many people (yet) as far as markets like the US or Europe are concerned, but these mobile social gaming platforms are hugely successful in Japan. The Tokyo-based companies behind these homegrown gaming networks, GREE and DeNA, ...

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 release, Mobage will serve as a hub for AT&T Android users...

Viximo Goes After Mobile Game Developers With Launch Of Social Zone

Viximo, originally a virtual goods marketplace until moving into web-based social game distribution a couple of years back, is shifting yet again. This time, Viximo is moving to mobile. Today, the company is introducing a platform for mobile game developers called Social Zone which delivers a mod...

Ngmoco Partners With Glu Mobile To Bring Gun Bros To Mobage

Following its November partnership with TinyCo, socialgames outfitngmoco(now a DeNA-owned company) is partnering with game publisher Glu Mobile, Inc. The deal will brings Glu’s popular Gun Brosgame to ngmoco’s Mobage gaming platform for Android.No word yet on whether the rest of Glu&#...

King.com Buys Fabrication Games as it Pushes Onto Mobile, Eyes Possible 2013 IPO

Swedish gaming company King.com just acquired Stockholm-based developer Fabrication Games in a big push to expand onto Android and iOS this year.With the deal, King.com picks up Fabrication’s talent, games and developer tools. Terms weren’t disclosed, but I would assume the acquisitio...

Amazon's Appstore For Android Turns One: 31K Apps, Millions Sold

This morning, Amazon announced its mobile app marketplace, the Amazon Appstore for Android, is celebrating its first birthdaywith a week-long sale on some of its most popular apps.The company also took the time to share some figures about the Appstore’s growth over the past year, including ...

Zynga Is In Talks To Buy "Draw Something" Maker OMGPOP

Zynga is in talks to acquire OMGPOP, the maker of massive hit Draw Something, according to a source with direct knowledge of the discussions. It’s my understanding that the talks have not yet entered the more advanced, exclusivity stage because there are still other Japanese buyers like GRE...

Halfbrick Acquires Onan Games So It Can Port Fruit Ninja Everywhere

Australia’sHalfbrick Studios, creators of Fruit Ninja, has just acquired Spain’s Onan Games, developers of the Mandreel technology for porting games across platforms from a single C++ code base. The buy will let Halfbrick efficiently deliver its games to iOS, Android, and Facebook whi...

Japanese Gaming Giant GREE Debuts Its First U.S.-Designed Title For Western Audiences

GREE, the $5.9 billion Japanese mobile gaming company making a big push in international markets, debuted its first-ever title designed by U.S. talent for Western audiences today.Taking the evergreen zombie theme that has fueled countless mobile gaming hits, GREE’s game “Zombie Jombie...

Despite The Name, Report Finds "Mobile Games" Are Played Most Often At Home

Casual and mobile games company Miniclip has teamed up with app monetization platform and ad server MoPub, today releasing a joint study on the behavior of mobile gamers, breaking the group down by age, gender, and content preference. The biggest surprise from the study came in this little nugget...