The goldrush is still on for social games, and employees seem to be the biggest beneficiaries. That’s the message from Vonchurch, a specialized recruited that has placed 120 candidates in social games companies since September 2009, in...

According to TechCrunch, Google has secretly invested $100 million in Zynga. (Congratulations to Michael Arrington for that scoop.) TechCrunch says: “The investment was made by Google itself, not Google Ventures, say our sources, and it’s a highly...

The Virtual Goods Forum over the past two days has been packed full of useful statistics. The most useful came from Vikas Gupta, CEO of Social Gold, and I’ve embedded it below. The key takeaways are that...

I’m working with Vision + Media, the digital and creative agency for the North West, to deliver a free masterclass on Making money from social games. It’s a full day course on the theory and practice of...

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...

If anyone needed any convincing that Zynga is the undisputed champion of social games, their new game, Treasure Isle, provides all the evidence you need. It was launched at the start of April. As of yesterday, less...

I’m at the State of Independence conference in York today, organised by Codeworks GameHorizon. Here are my quick thoughts on Jeferson Valadares’ talk. He’s a Playfish designer talking about making social games. Playfish focuses on Viral distribution,...