socalTECH
JULY 20, 2020
El Segundo-based Carbonated Games , a developer of mobile games, has raised $8.5M in a seed funding round, the company said late last week. The company is led by founder and CEO Travis Boatman. The company says its founders are from Zynga, Electronic Arts and Blizzard, and that it was founded in 2015.
socalTECH
JULY 9, 2012
Los Angeles-based Buffalo Studios , a social gaming developer founded by former Electronic Arts (EA) executives, said today that it has released its first, mobile game, for Apple iOS. The timed bingo game is free.
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socalTECH
JUNE 5, 2012
Agoura Hills-based THQ said late Monday that it has sold off its rights to produce titles for the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) brand, to Electronic Arts. According to THQ, the sale resulted in an undisclosed cash payment to THQ, and allows THQ to continue to publish its existing console and mobile titles through March 31, 2013.
socalTECH
JUNE 24, 2013
In its post, giving a number of its reasons for the investment, IVP said that "We Love LA", citing the success of LA''s JAMDAT Mobile , the mobile gaming firm which went public and was eventually acquired by Electronic Arts--which was founded by Mitch Lasky, who sits on Snapchat''s board and is a partner at Benchmark.
TechCrunch LA
JANUARY 16, 2019
A slew of banks are coming together to back a new roll-up strategy for the Los Angeles-based mobile gaming studio, Jam City and giving the company $145 million in new funding to carry that out. Jam City is coming off of a strong year of company growth. New Harry Potter game, launching today, lets players enroll in Hogwarts.
SoCal Tech Calendar
OCTOBER 19, 2009
With all of the major console and PC video game companies in Los Angeles (Electronic Arts, Activision, THQ, Blizzard), it only makes sense to discuss how more and more games are bringing in aspects of social media to enhance game play. See [link] (more).
TechCrunch LA
OCTOBER 29, 2019
The Los Angeles-based mobile game development studio Scopely has become America’s newest unicorn thanks to a $200 million financing which values the company at a whopping $1.4 ” The unicorn gaming company has amassed increasingly larger rounds over the past three years on a nearly annual basis. .
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