I saw an announcement from a casual games company that made me sit up and take notice for the first time in ages. Exent runs Free Ride Games, a casual gaming site with 2.1 million monthly users....

For anyone who thinks that social games are not real business, last week proved them so wrong. Between 10th and 17th November nearly every major social games company raised money or was bought, and one or two...

Here’s one minute and fifty five seconds on how mainstream – and financially important – Playfish has become if Reuters wants to interview the CEO.

As I work with my clients, I’ve realised that all of them are trying to do the same thing. They want to pour users into the top of the business and get profits out of the bottom....

PopCap has raised $22.5 million, the first time it has taken outside investment. The investment in the makers of casual games like Bejewelled was led by Meritech Capital Partners. Typically, investors put money into businesses which have...

Casualgaming.biz has a thought-provoking article based on recent comments from John Riccitiello. In a leaked internal memo, published by Bloomberg, Riccitiello says that Madden 2010, “one of our highest-rated and best-marketed Madden titles in years” had disappointing...

That’s the bold claim from Playfish co-founder Sebastien de Halleux in an interview with the Financial Times this morning. His claim is an estimate “based on average revenues of $1 per month from the 20 per cent...