2009 was the year in which Facebook trounced MySpace. Rupert Murdoch’s magical acquisition has been losing its lustre for a while. But, perhaps surprisingly, the main driver of Facebook’s success may have been games. Two reports just...

Jonathan Miller, head of digital activities at NewsCorp, has said that “MySpace is and will be more in the future a gaming platform, a space for people to meet and play games” (Thanks to GI.biz for quoting...

The analysis is, by necessity, rough, but there is a good chance that Zynga is now the largest web gaming business in the US. Zynga is growing, profitable and bigger than Yahoo. Does anyone still seriously claim...

As I talk more and more to developers about self-publishing, I am becoming more convinced that tapping into user’s existing social networks is a powerful, cost-effective and viral marketing tool for many games. I’ve tended to focus...