I just opened up Triple Town on Facebook for the first time (I’ve been playing on iOS) since developers Spry Fox partnered with publisher Playdom. I was immediately greeted by this cross-promotion bar across the top of...

Last week, David Edery, CEO of Spry Fox, announced that the independent developers behind Triple Town had signed up with Playdom as their publisher. While I fully understand Spry Fox’s reasons, it makes me sad.

I was reading the TechCrunch report of Disney’s acquisition of Playdom and this comment leaped out at me: “The sad truth is that 90% of employees got nothing immediately from this deal. 90% of Playdom employees joined...

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...

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...

The social games space is full of lawsuits. Mob Wars creator David Maestri left SGN to launch the game himself, so they sued him. They settled and Maestri then sued Zynga (creator of Mafia Wars) and Playdom...

The trickle of senior executives from major games companies to startups is threatening to turn into a torrent. Are the days of megalithic publishers numbered? EA COO John Pleasants has quit his job to join Playdom as...