The acquisition of Playdom by Disney is all about exploiting Disney’s IP on social plafforms. But will it work? Disney has paid $563.2 million, mainly in cash, plus a $200 million earnout for Playdom. that’s a total...

The news that 888 Corporation has spent up to $48 million on gaming company Mytopia is, at one level, no surprise. It’s all about CPA Gambling companies are experts at two things: customer acquisition and understanding legislation....

The Financial Times yesterday ran a story arguing that the social games industry is about to see a lot of acquisitions. It said that a senior executive at a leading social games company thinks that “smaller developers...

The Financial Times has reported a rumour that German browser game company Bigpoint has appointed investment bankers and is considering a sale. The report (written by Mergermarkets, a news service aimed at investment bankers, and behind a...

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...

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...

There’s no smoke without fire, they say, and the rumours of EA’s acquisition of Playfish would have stupefied all the bees in the US (not that there are any left, of course). And today it was confirmed...