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 ...
Having co-founded two massively successful companies – mobile firm Macrospace and social gaming company Playfish, the latter of which was acquired by EA last year for an estimated $300 million – few ...
Social gaming, a rising niche built atop platforms such as Facebook, took a big step toward legitimacy on Monday when video game giant Electronic Arts said it was acquiring Playfish for $300 million.
Currently, EA’s casual gaming division, Pogo, offers only a handful of Pogo games on Facebook. Pogo.com recently celebrated its tenth anniversary, but according to QuantCast, its U.S. traffic is down ...
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Social gaming firm Playfish has raised $17 million in Series B investment, which will partly be used to fuel the company's expansion onto platforms other than Facebook possibly including iPhone and ...
Electronic Arts Inc has acquired privately held Playfish for $275 million in cash plus other consideration as the maker of the "Madden NFL" series expands in the growing social gaming sector. By ...
Playfish, one of the largest and fastest growing social games developers, announced Saturday the availability of its popular title, “Who Has the Biggest Brain?” for iPhone and iPod Touch. Who Has The ...
Social games publisher Playfish has announced that its games have been installed more than 100 million times by users of Facebook, MySpace and Bebo. The figure doesn't include iPhone sales of its Who ...
Who Was There: The third and final keynote address of GDC Austin 2009 was delivered by Playfish COO and cofounder Sebastian de Halleux. Playfish is a social gaming specialist and creator of popular ...
Who Was There: The third and final keynote address of GDC Austin 2009 was delivered by Playfish COO and cofounder Sebastian de Halleux. Playfish is a social gaming specialist and creator of popular ...