Yahoo has continued its acquisition spree and bought yet another start-up, not big as Tumblr though. In a bid to expand itself in the gaming arena, Yahoo has acquired PlayerScale, which makes software infrastructure for cross-platform gaming. Terms of the deal were not disclosed but PlayerScale will not shut down after the buyout. “Today we acquired PlayerScale. We intend to continue to...

Zapak has announced that its mobile games have clocked 100 million downloads on the Nokia Store. The mobile gaming division of Reliance Entertainment Digital has reached the 100 million mark from 50,000 in a span of 14 months. The gaming company shared that there were 22 games with over 1 million downloads that included games like Chhota Bheem Racing, Ninja Strike, ICC Cricket World Cup 2011,...

Zynga shut down 11 games last December because these titles were not doing very well. The company has been facing very serious problems in terms of financials and stock market performance. Besides this, many senior management people have jumped ship leaving the company in a quandary. Zynga used Facebook to rocket ahead a few years back but now things are not very good between both companies and Zynga...

Mobility Fund house One97 has liquidated its stake in Singapore based TheMobileGamer (TMG). The deal comprises of complete reshuffle of shares held by previous stock-holders. The newly issued shares will be equally held (41.08%) by telecom firm SingTel and Japan’s Softbank. TMG is primarily involved in developing mobile gaming software. It publishes social themed mobile games. These are subsequently...

Naukri.com’s latest social media efforts are being focused on their old ‘Hari Sadu’ Campaign. They have released a new game app on Facebook called ‘The Big Clash’ and has 3 games through which you can defeat (read crush) Hari Sadu. The 3 games are Archery, Boxing and Shooting, which are Olympic games. This is an example of Naukri leveraging the ongoing Olympics to get sports inclined fans...

Game development in India is gaining momentum in terms of the quality of the games produced and the global appeal they have. We have seen how Games2Win’s Parking Frenzy became the most popular game on iTunes. Besides that, Jump Games has also had several hits with their renewed focus on Indian themed mobile games. Social gaming is one aspect which has not yet hit the Indian mainstream in terms of...

Social media game giant Zynga launched its first true Arcade game called Bubble Safari. The Game’s protagonist Bubbles, is a plucky monkey living the good life in his lush jungle home. That is until his monkey sweetheart and his group of closest friends, are captured by unscrupulous poachers. You control Bubbles as he journeys across the jungle collecting fruit as he rescues his friends, encountering...

Zapak.com, India’s leading online gaming portal have officially announced the launch of their social cricket game called Cricville. This is the companies second foray into social gaming, the earlier one being Tambola. The game was initially in released in a closed beta program to select people to review. It seems the ratings are through the roof on this one. The game is specially designed for Facebook...

Zynga, the world’s biggest social gaming developer has now released ‘Scramble with Friends. This new game is available on the App Store and is coming soon to Android. This game has only been released for mobile devices following the success of ‘Words with Friends’ which was a runaway hit. Their ‘With Friends’ series of games are interesting because of the social dimension that they add...

Ojas Venture Partners has co-invested in US-based social gaming start-up Play140. The other investor is SOS Ventures of China. The amount of investment was undisclosed. Play140 was founded in 2010 by three entrepreneurs – Shawn Broderick, Andrea Shubert and Tom Monaghan. Play140 develops simple text-based social games which can be played on platforms like Twitter and Facebook. e.g. T.A.G. is an...