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Spare me your criticisms. I hate Farmville and its kin for the same reasons you do. Games like that are manipulative, reliant on spamming and barely constitute being called games at all.
And yet…what would happen if one came along …
Z2Live, the creator of hit free-to-play social games on mobile devices, is announcing today it has acquired Big Sandwich Games in Vancouver, Canada.
The deal will add nine employees to Z2Live’s work force. Terms were not disclosed. But the deal …
If you wanted to illustrate the massive changes rippling through the video-game industry, you couldn’t do much better than Z2Live‘s acquisition of Vancouver, BC-based Big Sandwich Games.
As a standalone studio, Big Sandwich was mostly focused on games for the …
Z2Live, the fast-growing Seattle mobile gaming company, announced today that it is buying Big Sandwich Games of Vancouver, B.C. for an undisclosed price. The acquisition gives Z2Live, maker of Trade Nations, Battle Nations and Metalstorm, a “foot hold in the …
Z2Live, creators of genre defining, free-to-play social games for mobile devices, today announces the acquisition of Big Sandwich Games, an independent full-service game development studio based in Vancouver, BC.
Led by game industry veterans Glenn Barnes and Tyler Sigman, the …
MetalStorm: Wingman by Z2Live Inc. is an aerial combat app done right. There is much to love about this game and it offers the best air-to-air battle game we have tested on an iOS device to date.
This game gets …
Battle Nations, a role playing action game by Z2Live, situates you in a science fiction world of Imperial Forces, rebel raiders, and, for some reason, raptors. You are an Imperial soldier out to crush the rebels, a bunch of gas-mask …
The very first time most people play a freemium sim, they reach a point where they think “that’s it?” After all, you’ve put time and possibly money into growing your crops, building your tower or expanding your kingdom, and then …
There are a lot of people out there playing games like FarmVille and the like; however, there aren’t too many games out there of that ilk that have the machismo that Battle Nations does. This is FarmVillefor guys, people, …
With the launch of Battle Nations on iOS, developer Z2Live is hoping to repeat the success that has made it a force in the free-to-play games market.
Seattle-based Z2Live might not be as well-known as other mobile developers like Angry …
You may have played Z2Live’s first big freemium iOS game, Trade Nations, and the recently released Battle Nations is a sort of spiritual sequel to that one. It features the same kind of Farmville-style gameplay, so if that turns you …
Seeing how popular FarmVille has been, as well as freemium titles that have been influenced heavily on the game, the genre has been heavily adopted by female gamers as most men are off shooting things in Modern Warfare 3 or …
“No one has taken a freemium approach to air combat,” explains Z2Live’s Chief Operating Officer, Lou Fasulo. On Thursday, MetalStorm: Online changes all that. With a dearth of good air combat games available on iOS, MetalStorm: Online is a breath …
I’ve almost got target lock when the enemy banks sharply to the left. “Sonofabitch!” I shout, pouring on the speed and rolling my plane, leaning hard to the side, as if my body movements will make the craft more responsive. …
In the past year, Z2Live president and CEO David Bluhm has seen the Seattle startup triple in size, launch a hit social game, reach profitability and raise $2.5 million in a new funding round. Through it all, Bluhm has remained …
Z2Live, creating the next generation of mobile games, announced that it has closed a Series B investment from venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson joining Z2Live’s original investor, Madrona Venture Group. This investment recognizes the runaway success of Z2Live’s launch …
