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fbFund awards company's Social Arcade game-creation tool

SPECIAL REPORT: London-based team is responsible for some of the biggest social games apps

Facebook is in hot water with anti-knife crime campaigners over a new game that allows user to ‘stab’ each other. The application allows members to send a knife icon to friends, with accompanying text that informs them they have been ‘shanked’ – a street slang term for ‘knifed’. For the …

Activision CEO Bobby Kotick has told Conde Nast’s Portfolio magazine that the popularity of Facebook is a "challenge" his firm must overcome. After stating that he believed Activision could continue to grow at a rate that outpaced the overall games market and the publisher’s competitors, Kotick was asked: ‘Is there …

Sony’s PlayStation division was tantalisingly close to spearheading the ‘online social community’ phenomenon – beating the likes of MySpace to the idea. That’s according to former Sony Entertainment President Chris Deering, who revealed to MCV that a secret Facebook-style web networking platform was being worked on behind-the-scenes by those responsible …

Speculation mounts that casual game firm will buy popular Facebook application - battle with EA in the offing?

EA is to unveil a new development team focused on games for casual networks, reports MCV sister site Develop – head over there for the full story

Popular Facebook casual game under fire for infringing Scrabble copyright