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WildTangent’s Weekly Games Played Snapshot

Strong Titles Live On In WildClub In the world of online games, titles come and go fairly quickly depending on the game, but what’s surprising is the staying power of certain games that continue to live on and on and on … long after their initial release date.  So this week we dug in to [...]

WildTangent Expands into Bay Area

We announced today we’ve opened a San Francisco office and have brought on board Benjamin Chen as Director of Audience Development and Strategic Partnerships. The expansion reflects our acceleration of our advertising platform into the growing business of social and mobile games. Chen joins our Ad Sales team, which currently partners with numerous Bay Area [...]

WildTangent team–Behind the Scenes video

Microsoft came into our offices to interview WildTangent as we were preparing to launch the new Games App. Take a look as Mike Peronto, our CEO, and Matt Shea, SVP Product Development, give a brief description of our thinking behind the new games service. Mike says, “WildTangent does for games what Netflix does for movies and what [...]

New to WildTangent?

The WildTangent Games App comes with many new computers, and we know the holidays are when people often receive computers as gifts. For those of you who are new to WildTangent, welcome!  Here’s a brief overview of what we’re all about: WildTangent Games is a global online games service with more than 1,300 games.  We [...]

BRB, monsters to slay–

We’re all really excited about the upcoming release (early 2011) of the fourth FATE game! Yes, it does have a title, but it’s still a secret. I can say that it takes place far away from good ole’ Grove, and you start the game as a brand new hero. Incidentally, you might be responsible for [...]

New Tab

Have you noticed the plus sign at the top of the Games App?  See image below: If you click on the plus sign, you’ll see recently played games as well as your account information, but you’ll also see links to other popular sites like Facebook, Pandora and Hulu. It gives you the simple convenience of [...]

We’re Here to Help

Hello! My name is Burke and I work in the customer support department here at WildTangent.  We believe in doing everything we can for the people who contact us looking for help.  We also like to hire friendly, capable and smart individuals who also enjoy creating a positive experience for our customers. The people who [...]

Why the new website?

Why the new website? Welcome everyone! I’m Matt and I oversee WildTangent’s product and technology division. We’ve been busily working on updating our service for a while now and are excited to finally give you a chance to dive in and start using it.  I thought I would take just a few minutes to give [...]