For those who don't want to miss a dime of that precious tax money, Playfish launched a mobile web companion app for My Empire. While you can't access and fiddle with your entire city using My Empire ...

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 ...

ow that parrot that stands just under the logo of Pirates Ahoy, spy glass in hand? Apparently, Playfish feels that it deserves a name. Why? We have no idea. Not to mention that the company mentions no ...

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 ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Accel Partners news every morning. The video games industry is one of the last media sectors to face disruption from the internet. But ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Social gaming firm Playfish has raised $17 million in Series B investment, which will partly be used to fuel the company's expansion onto platforms other than Facebook possibly including iPhone and ...

Electronic Arts Inc has acquired privately held Playfish for $275 million in cash plus other consideration as the maker of the "Madden NFL" series expands in the growing social gaming sector. By ...

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 ...