It has become something of a meme that young kids take to smartphones and tablets like fish to water. Today sees a development that could foster that idea along with more content for them to consume. Mindshapes, an educational games publisher started in 2010 by five execs with a track…

During the three-day outage last week that affected data services for millions of BlackBerry users, RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) executives were focused first on getting services up and running before talking about compensation. Today the company finally came out with its first (and so far, only public) apology in kind: a…

Sky Sports breached two Ofcom guidelines governing promotion and prominence of products in programmes, by showing the logo for games publisher Electronic Arts (NSDQ: ERTS) 14 times during one football match.

Electronic Arts (NSDQ: ERTS) has confirmed it has purchased Chillingo, a U.K. publisher of Angry Birds and other iPhone and iPad games, reports the LA Times.

The day after Nokia started shipping its flagship N8 smartphone, it released a furry of statistics to make the point that it was making progress in building out its Ovi Store and distributing applications. It said 200,000 people sign up daily for the Ovi Store; downloads have increased to 2.3…

Electronic Arts (NSDQ: ERTS), which has long held many official national licenses for FIFA-endorsed soccer video games, is building on its soccer credentials by getting named the first “official sports technology partner” of the English Premier League, the world’s biggest club league. That means…

BBC Worldwide has tapped Electronic Arts (NSDQ: ERTS) exec Robert Nashak to help build up its gaming offerings as EVP of Digital Entertainment. During the nearly two years he spent at EA, Nashak’s last role was as a VP charged with overseeing the company’s social gaming group. He previously led…

Jeremy Liew is a Managing Director at Lightspeed Venture Partners, where he focuses on investments in the internet and mobile sectors, with a particular interest in social media, commerce, gaming, financial and methods for increasing monetization. He blogs on these topics at lsvp.wordpress.com. In 2009, social gaming exploded onto the…

Social gaming firm Playfish has been the subject of several acquisition rumours recently - in particular, that Electronic Arts (NSDQ: ERTS) has already agreed to buy the social-gaming company for $250 million via Alley Insider) and, in another, that Playfish is just playing the field in search of an even…

EA Mobile has appointed Luca Pagano as its new publishing head for its European operations, the company has confirmed. The hire was first reported by mobile-ent.biz, which said Pagano is replacing its VP of European publishing, Javier Ferreira, who left in January, and Tim Harrison, EA Mobile’s European marketing director,…

Electronic Arts’ mobile division in Europe has hired former Vodafone games boss Tim Harrison as its director or marketing, reports Mobile Entertainment. Harrison had worked with industry standards body OMTP following his departure from the mobile carrier. Now he will join EA Mobile in September, from when he will work…

Four major mobile game companies—EA, Gameloft, Glu and I-play—have agreed to release their games across all UK operators on the same day. The deal was brokered by the UK video games industry trade body ELSPA (Entertainment Leisure Software Publishers Association), and aims to grow the mobile game market by replicating…

T-Mobile and EA have teamed up for a FIFA World Cup promotion: “Special edition Nokia handsets—namely the 6280, 6131 and N70—will come complete with the game, along with World Cup anthem Celebrate the Day, the Nokia football theme, icons, wallpapers and access to tournament highlights…The bundles will also include free…