In 2010, Prince Fahad quit Facebook and hopped on a plane back to Saudi, itching to "ignite the culture" of entrepreneurship and new media, and has since launched several successful gaming start-ups, including Na3m Games.
Parallel gaming started in massive multiplayer games like Everquest, but it's everywhere now.
Mork has an extensive background in mobile gaming, starting in 2001 when he created his own games company.
Arctic Startup reports that Finnish social gaming start-up everyplay has exited stealth mode and released a Facebook game called Kamu World.
The game is a collaboration between Electronic Arts and the team behind Playfish, the casual gaming start-up that EA acquired a few years ago.
Strauss Zelnick has run a worldwide music company, a video gaming start-up, and a movie studio.
"In politics, the language of entrepreneurship didn't really exist until this year," said Mr. Feld, who is also a board member of Zynga, a social gaming start-up.
The startling growth in virtual goods has led to a series of megadeals for gaming start-ups in the past few months.
But Mark knew that free was the next big thing, and he went harder than anyone else," said Gabriel Leydon, the founder of Addmired, another gaming start-up.
He sits on the boards of Dell, Wal-Mart, Brightheve-commerceomarketplaceEtsyand Ethe and the gaming start-up Vostu.
