RockYou didn’t have to go far to find its new chief executive. It has selected its chief operating officer Lisa Marino as the new boss of the social game company.

Marino has effectively been running the Redwood City, Calif.-based company si...

Pecha Kucha, which will take center stage at next week’s 6th Annual MI6 Game Marketing Conference, is a conference session format where a series of speakers show 20 slides for 20 seconds before they scoot off the stage to make way for the next present...

Aiming to do good with a good game, game startup Talkie is rolling out its Facebook game Ecotopia today in a private beta test. This game has some extra oomph from its allies: actor Harrison Ford and nonprofit Conservation International.

The game...

Getting the best talent together is a good strategy in any market. Loot Drop, a new social game developer, is banking on that idea as it takes on the likes of Zynga, Disney, and Electronic Arts in Facebook games.

The San Mateo, Calif.-based compa...

Zio Studios, a 45-person animation and gaming startup based in Bogotá, Colombia, has announced that local venture capital firm Promotora, has invested $1.3M in the company in a first round of institutional funding.  According to CEO Alejandro Gonzalez...

LOLapps has had a big hit with its social game Ravenwood Fair, which has grown to 10 million monthly active users since its launch in October. So the company has done what game publishers always do with a hit: launch an expansion game.

If the exp...