This article was first published in two parts by Games Industry.biz on 27 October 2010 and 27 November, as part of Tim's monthly column 'Money Games'.
Part One - Is it the Right Time to Sell Up?
Ngmoco is the most recent in a string of headline-grabbing online and mobile games deals in the last year, each with an apparently more stratospheric exit multiple (price as a multiple of revenue or operating profit) than the next - Playfish, Tapulous, Playdom anyone?