Category - Industry News

InnoGames Shuts Down Kartuga and Studio...

Hamburg, July 16th, 2013. Today, online games publisher InnoGames and Development Studio Ticking Bomb Games announced the discontinuation of the pirate-MMO Kartuga. Simultaneously the companies’ partnership was disbanded. Regardless of its...

gamigo Acquires Airwin Entertainment

July 2nd, 2013 — gamigo AG acquires 100% of the Austrian company Airwin Entertainment GmbH from A1 Telekom Austria AG. The company hereby expands its Online games portfolio to mobile games. Airwin Entertainment was founded in 2011 and has...

EA’s Sean Decker Joins CCP Games

REYKJAVIK, ICELAND – July 2, 2013 – CCP Games, the world’s leading independent developer of massively multiplayer games, today announced it has hired Sean Decker as its new senior vice president of product development. Decker will lead the...

Zynga Names Don Mattrick Chief Executive...

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – July 1, 2013 – Zynga Inc. a leading provider of social game services, today announced that the Company has appointed Don Mattrick as Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors, effective July 8, 2013...

E3 2013 Sees Over 48K Attendees

July 1st, 2013 — More than 48,000 video game industry professionals, investor analysts, journalists, and retailers from 102 countries converged in Los Angeles last month to experience the future of interactive entertainment at E3, the...

Rob Dyer Leaves Zynga

June 25, 2013 — Zynga’s Vice President of Partner Publishing, Rob Dyer announced today that he is no longer with the company and will be pursuing other opportunities within the mobile and social gaming space. Hired in November 2011, Dyer...

Nordic Games Picks Up Silver and Desperados

Vienna, Austria (June 24th 2013) – Nordic Games announced today that it has signed and closed an asset purchase agreement with Atari SAS recently regarding  two of Atari’s intellectual properties, Desperados and Silver. The acquisition itself...