Big Fish, the casual games company, today announced that it had raised $83 million from top tier investors including Balderton, General Catalyst and Salmon River. Balderton, of course, owns 100% of Codemasters, a stake in Habbo Hotel...

Venturebeat reports that Google is nearing a release of its in-game advertising platform. This is fantastic news. Google is the master at making setting up and installing revenuie-generating code in your websites simple – I’ve used Adsense...

I’ve just written a new article over at casualgaming.biz on the cognitive surplus. An enormous, untapped, and above all free, resource to create content, and potentially the biggest societal shift since the Industrial Revolution. Don’t believe me?...

Gamejacket is a new company that offer an innovative way for casual games developers to generate revenue. Developers upload the game to GameJacket and get back a wrapped file. That wrapped file is freely distributable and hosted...

Playfish, the social games company, has raised an additional $1 million from Accel Partners. Playfish is a new breed of Internet games company. Unlike traditional web games businesses, you can’t play games on their site: their games...

A new report from SharpBrains, Inc states that brain exercise games generated over $225 million of sales in the US alone in 2007. Since the category seems to have been invented by Dr Kawashima’s Brain Training which...

Mousebreaker.com, a casual gaming portal aimed squarely at males aged 18-34, has just been snapped up for a reported “seven figure sum.” IPC Media, publisher of titles ranging from lads mags Nuts and >Loaded to NME and...