Titan Gaming just has just raised $1m from a bunch of angels for its tournament gaming platform. I am deeply sceptical about this model for hardcore gamers. The past is littered with tournament gaming failures such as...

Following my posts this week on Four reasons why VCs won’t fund games companies and Seed, Series A, Series B: Why the wrong funding can kill your company, I’ve just come another excellent post which I urge...

Not all investors are the same. A seed investor is looking for something very different from a Series B investor. Get the wrong investor for your stage of development, and it can kill your business stone dead....

Alice Taylor (of @wonderlandblog / Channel 4 fame) tweeted last week to ask why games companies couldn’t get VC funding in this country. I promised an answer in the blog, and here it is. The basic answer...

Rumours have abounded that Chris de Wolfe, the founder of MySpace, was about to make a major acquisition in the social games space. He’s just done it. Together with MySpace co-founders Colin Digiaro, and Aber Whitcomb and...

Hong Kong-based developer 6 Waves has just raised $17.5 million from Insight Venture Partners. The company, which has only 18 employees, is one of the largest developers on Facebook. According to AppData, 6 Waves ranks #6 by...

Zynga has just announced a new round of funding led by Digital Sky Technologies. Other new investors include Andreesen Horowitz and Tiger Global while Institutional Venture Partners added to its position in the company. DST recently invested...