Last week we reported the rumors that VC-backed Playfish, the social games startup which has had phenomenal growth, was in the process of being acquired by games giant Electronic Arts for $250 million ...

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Electronic Arts confirmed rumors this morning as it acquired Playfish for $300 million in cash and stock. The move gets EA into the social gaming market on Facebook in a big way. The value of the deal ...

The game maker that brought you Pet Society and The Sims Social has finally said goodbye to its last co-founder. Playfish co-founder Kristian Segerstrale follows former co-founders Halleux and Sami ...

If you glance at the top lineup of gaming applications on the Facebook or MySpace platform, you’ll notice an interesting fact. Not one is the product of a major gaming publisher. Instead a group of ...

Having co-founded two massively successful companies – mobile firm Macrospace and social gaming company Playfish, the latter of which was acquired by EA last year for an estimated $300 million – few ...

Social gaming, a rising niche built atop platforms such as Facebook, took a big step toward legitimacy on Monday when video game giant Electronic Arts said it was acquiring Playfish for $300 million.

NEW YORK) — As its packaged video games business lags, Electronic Arts has snapped up Playfish, the creator of popular social networking games such as “Who Has the Biggest Brain” and “Pet Society,” ...

Currently, EA’s casual gaming division, Pogo, offers only a handful of Pogo games on Facebook. Pogo.com recently celebrated its tenth anniversary, but according to QuantCast, its U.S. traffic is down ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Electronic Arts has entered the fast-growing market for games on social networks with its $400m purchase of ...

Fortunately, all the old-fashioned ways of collecting coins like visiting friends, selling items back to the store and spinning the Daily Lottery Wheel aren't going anywhere. While it seems that ...