RealNetworks today announced that Atul Bali, a 20-year gaming industry vet, will head up the company’s video game division beginning later this month. Bali was previously the CEO of Aristocrat Technologies,… Read More
Chances are, if you own a smartphone, you play a freemium or free-to-play game — downloading the app for free, with the ability to unlock features for a price. Whether… Read More
RealNetworks’ GameHouse division continued making a splash in the social gaming arena today, announcing the acquisition of social casino company Slingo Inc. for $15.6 million. Slingo is an immensely popular online game with billions of… Read More
Real-money gambling hasn’t quite made it to the United States yet, but that doesn’t mean you can’t win a nice chunk of money — like, $100,000 — via free-to-play social… Read More
Matt Hulett, the Seattle startup veteran who was most recently president of RealNetworks’ video-game division, has been named the CEO of ClickBank, a Boise-based digital content creation, distribution and marketing… Read More
GameHouse is placing a bigger bet on casino-style social gaming starting today— moving beyond its existing Facebook slots game to launch a larger casino on the social network, with more… Read More
Keela Robison is returning to her roots. After stints at Amazon.com and WhitePages, Robison is returning to RealNetworks’ and its GameHouse unit. Robison, who will serve as vice president of… Read More
RealNetworks today posted first-quarter revenue of $67 million, a decline of 23 percent, with a quarterly loss of $17 million — slipping further into the red as all of its… Read More
William Blake, the former general manager of parallel computing platforms at Microsoft Corp., has been named senior vice president and chief technology officer at supercomputer giant Cray Inc. Blake has more… Read More
Yapta has named GameHouse president Matt Hulett to the board, part of an ongoing transformation of the Seattle startup from a consumer travel company to one focused on business-to-business services.… Read More
Guest Commentary: The video game industry is changing like never before. Here are my best attempts at peering into the crystal ball for 2012: Prediction #1: Tablets are the new game… Read More
A new survey commissioned by GameHouse, the RealNetworks video-game division, finds that women who play online games are more social than those who don’t and also have sex more frequently… Read More
Facebook is beginning to expand its Facebook Credits system beyond its own social networking site with a new initiative called Facebook Credits for Websites. Seattle-based GameHouse, the RealNetworks games division,… Read More
Given the timing, EA’s blockbuster deal to acquire Seattle’s PopCap Games for between $750 million and $1.3 billion is destined to be Topic No. 1 in the hallways at next… Read More
Back in the 1990s, Braden Moulton scripted a website to display his resume as if it were the opening text sequence of the Star Wars movies. Of course, it got… Read More