While the goal of Disney Interactive Group remains the combined research and development across mobile, video, and online gaming, CEO Bob Iger has split the tasks of managing the group to two presidents. The two placed in charge of the media group are former Electronic Arts executive John Pleasants and Jimmy Pitaro, who recently resigned […]
Over the past few weeks, rumors regarding an impending acquisition of Playdom, a prominent supplier of online games on social networking sites such as Facebook or Myspace, by Disney continued to become more substantial. Today, Disney has finally confirmed that it is indeed acquiring the organization for a total sum of $563.2 million. Playdom itself […]
When Disney gets into the game, they don’t do so lightly. So the rumors floating around that the media empire is eying social gaming developer Playdom come with major possible weight for the casual market. The two companies are reportedly in negotiations valued at $600 million dollars, that would give the House of Mouse access […]
Long thought dead behind its rival social networking site Facebook, Myspace is making a big push towards the social gaming front with the announcement of its creation of the Myspace Games Lab. Built with third-party development in mind, Myspace has also created an in-house team for internal IP creation. Confirmed studios within the program are […]