Google Alert - Facebook Games News
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| Zynga, Maker of Facebook Games, Plans an IPO Bloomberg Photographer: Courtesy of Zynga May 25 (Bloomberg) -- Bob Rice, general managing partner at Tangent Capital Partners LLC, discusses the prospects for an initial public offering by Zynga Inc. Zynga, the biggest maker of games on Facebook, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg: Social games could teach music, movies a thing ... Games.com News (blog) Traditional publishers like EA have enlisted developers like EA2D to promote their existing games via Facebook games. Even better, Facebook is digging its claws right into traditional games like the upcoming Uncharted 3, bringing the social graph right ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Turkey's Peak Games raises $5M for social gaming VentureBeat Sidar Sahin, chief executive of the company, said in an interview that the company hopes to expand its roster of social games into markets such as Brazil and the broader Middle East region. "We believe the next big Facebook games will come from an ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| The App Store Effect: "Free" Games Pay! PR Newswire (press release) NEW YORK, May 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Digital distribution of "free" games has emerged as a bright spot in an otherwise flat casual games download industry. iPhone, Android, and Facebook have introduced free casual game play to the wider mass-market, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Music, TV Are Next Social Frontiers: Zuckerberg Bloomberg Facebook began letting third-party developers offer games on its site in 2007. Since then, social-gaming companies such as Zynga Inc. have become among the largest in the industry. Zynga, the biggest provider of games on Facebook, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Serious games to be featured at Tech@State conference Washington Post (blog) Breakthrough is the organization behind America 2049, a dystopic Facebook game set in the future that teaches players about social issues using real historical documents as they track down an escaped fugitive. More serious than your average Facebook ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Little buyer's remorse for real money spent on virtual goods in social games The Canadian Press Analyst Paul Verna said social gaming exploded in 2010 and game developer Zynga has consistently dominated the ranks of the top FaceBook games, for example with "FarmVille," "CityVille," "FrontierVille" and "Mafia Wars." Even though gaming companies ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| SocialGO Rolls Out a Social Network Platform For Gamers San Francisco Chronicle (press release) While many people who think of social media and gaming in one sentence, they tend to think about social games such as Mafia Wars and Farmville which are played on Facebook. Instead SocialGO is providing a social media platform that all gamers, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Zynga's Red Hot IPO Could Set Gaming Stocks on Fire Seeking Alpha Majesco has been moving into the social/mobile space and has a close tie to Zynga, with its upcoming game, Parking Wars 2. Based on the A&E TV series, Parking Wars 2 is the second installment of the hit Facebook game. It is being developed by Area/Code ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Wrestler: Unstoppable on Facebook: Wrestling that's deeper than 3D Games.com News (blog) Rocket Ninja could have easily created a Facebook game that was all about the action, but it didn't with Wrestler: Unstoppable. Alright, so maybe a major draw of this social brawler is the fighting, but between a clan system similar to Mafia Wars' mob ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Interview: Pretty Simple talks funding, following up My Shops Gamezebo We founded Pretty Simple in January 2010 with the idea to make original games on Facebook. We play and love a lot of games on Facebook and we do our best to create games that are a little different from what the others do. We hope that our users can ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Tecmo's JollyWood on Facebook: Jolly well polished, but standard fare Games.com News (blog) by Joe Osborne, Posted May 24th 2011 4:35PM When it comes to form, Facebook games sure have come a long way since Mafia Wars, but function is another story. JollyWood, Tecmo Koei's first serious outing on the platform, is a prime example of just that. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Supercell Raises $12 Million to Develop Games for the Hardcore Social Gamers All Things Digital (blog) What do you get when you cross a social game, like FarmVille, with elements from a hardcore online game, like World of Warcraft? "The company was founded on the idea that there's a gap between the social games on Facebook, like FarmVille, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Clavier Expects Zynga Valuation to Rise With an IPO Washington Post May 25 (Bloomberg) -- Jeff Clavier, founder and president of SoftTech VC, talks about the possibility of an initial public offering by Zynga Inc. Zynga, the biggest maker of games on Facebook, may file for an IPO by the end of June, a person familiar ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| TinyCo launches $5 million TinyFund for devs VatorNews Games today are more complicated, deeper and have a higher production value. "[Mobile] is how Facebook felt two years ago, with a few players having success but no clear market leader. Over the next 12 months, the ad market will get extremely ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Hero's Blend of City-Building and Adventure Sees Steady MAU Growth but ... Inside Social Games By Pete Davison Hero is a role-playing game for Facebook from Chinese developer Hero Legend. The game previously appeared on our top 20 list of emerging Facebook games in December, about six months after its launch. After holding steady throughout the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| "200000 Explorers Join Star Arcade to Capture Precious Diamonds" SYS-CON Media (press release) The game is also going to be launched on Facebook to enable web based gamers to play against other Facebook users or their opponents using mobile phones. Star Arcade is also delivering many other multi player games using a combination of "Freemium" and ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Ritter Says LinkedIn Created Social Media IPO `Urgency' Washington Post Zynga is the biggest maker of games on Facebook. Ritter speaks with Deirdre Bolton on Bloomberg Television's "InsideTrack." (Source: Bloomberg) (/Bloomberg) Correction: Clarification: Comments our editors find particularly useful or relevant are ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Why Dark Energy Digital Won't Just Give Up on Hydrophobia Giant Bomb If you play a game on Facebook you can bet your behaviour and profile information is being used to improve the game and help the developer make better games in the future--why on earth would we not do the same?" See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| IGT Brings sbX™ System to High Winds Casino in Oklahoma PR Newswire (press release) "The sbX™ system allows High Winds Casino to access and configure the largest available library of server-based games, and to create a truly dynamic slot floor based on their players' preferences in just minutes." As part of the sbX™ system, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Garland ISD Elementary School Student Tyler Kapadia Wins $10000 Scholarship in ... EON: Enhanced Online News (press release) ... and can now be viewed on-demand on Livestream on Facebook or directly from Livestream. Currently, students in more than 70 school districts across the country are using DimensionU games including New York City Public Schools, Chicago Public Schools ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| In reminder of '90s, LinkedIn has big first day Las Vegas Sun It may not be as much fun as playing games, chatting and posting pictures on Facebook, but LinkedIn has steadily grown since it started in 2003 and it's now adding about a million accounts a week. In a key distinction from the dot-com days, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Grand Theft Auto publisher gets serious about social games Games.com News (blog) I also expect that Take-Two will be eyeballing its more successful sports games -- like Top Spin and Major League Baseball 2K -- and see if either of these can make a splash in the still very experimental sports gaming scene on Facebook and other ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Reportlinker Adds Global Digital Media - Online Sector Entertains the World SunHerald.com (press release) Facebook is well positioned in the social gaming area too, offering popular games such as Zynga's Farmville via both online and mobile channels. Advertising is still the key source of revenue for online entertainment providers and around 15% of overall ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Fans near, far keep tabs on 'Hunger Games' production in Shelby Shelby Star On the other side, just feet away at the intersection of Morgan and Blanton streets, crew workers continue progress on a new piece of the set for the film 'The Hunger Games.' "I think it's very exciting," Pearson said of the filming. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Top Reasons Fans Follow Brands on Facebook WebProNews For instance, two suggestions that are particularly interesting are fans wanting the "ability to take part in games, competitions" as well as fans wanting "invitations to events related to the brand beyond Facebook." These two particular suggestions ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Bubble Trouble: LinkedIn Deal Has 'Floodgates Open' Fox Business He notes the differences between Web 2.0 and the Internet Bubble: "There's real revenue and profits suggesting these companies -- Facebook, Groupon, Zynga -- are the fastest-growing companies we've ever seen. Zynga didn't exist a couple of years ago, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Alex Avila and Winning Games You Shouldn't Motor City Bengals Sometimes, if you are going to be a good ballclub, you have to win games that you probably shouldn't win. Last night in Detroit, the Tigers won a game in which Justin Verlander allowed six earned runs in just six innings of work, a game that saw the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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