It was part of the early wave of iPhone game developers, and one of the first to be snapped up by a Far Eastern partner. But now ngmoco is no more, as parent DeNA shuts its San...

Are you old enough to remember the dotcom boom? Between 1997 and 2000, the NASDAQ, a tech-focused equity market in the US, soared, reaching its peak on March 10, 2000. Now do you remember the tragic story...

Today, Nintendo accepted that the world has changed. In a surprise announcement, Nintendo revealed it had negotiated a substantial partnership with DeNA to bring Nintendo IP to smart devices. The companies took equity stakes in each other:...

The team behind The Drowning, DeNA’s high-end first person shooter for tablets, say that they have invented gesture controls for a touch screen FPS that “works well when you get used to it”. They have applied for...

In 2012, both F2P and mobile gaming did amazingly well, until pretty well everyone would admit that they have their upsides and are here to stay. Legions of ex-console developers have dived into mobile. How much of a...

Widely trailed last week, ngmoco today confirmed its $400m acquisition by Japan’s DeNA. Not bad for a business that is barely two years old. Kudos to Neil Young and the rest of the team. ngMoco was one...