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The movement is (still) just beginning for games on Facebook
Gamezebo
Where are the Facebook games for my teenage cousin who loves playing her Nintendo DS, or my brother who loves to play Xbox? Many have argued that social games mainly just appeal to 45-year-old women. While it's true that "casual gamers" and ...
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How to Make a Facebook Game: Just Add 'Wars'
Games.com News (blog)
Poking fun at this unoriginal naming convention, Kris Naudus, a logophile on Wordnik, created a list of actual Facebook games called "How to Make a Facebook Game". She jokingly sums up the process, thusly: Many of Zynga's games that end in "Wars" have ...
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Lenny Kravitz to play Cinna in 'The Hunger Games'
Baltimore Sun
By Tierney Bricker Zap2it Lionsgate has announced via the "The Hunger Games" Facebook account that rocker Lenny Kravitz will be taking on the role of Cinna in the film adaption of Suzanne Collins' dystopian novel. In the book, Cinna is Katniss' ...
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How to Be a Gaming Entrepreneur
Entrepreneur
Power: The company launched in December, but already has deals with game companies representing around 40 million players. Strength: iSwifter is doubling the number of employees to 10, stat. Delivering a solution. Until now, bringing a Facebook game to ...
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Feature: Unsocial Games
Gamasutra
Costikyan, who, vastly prefers multiplayer experiences to single-player ones, sees many ways in which developers could use tested social mechanics to improve their games in the Facebook space. Why they don't is a mystery, he writes: "The peculiarity of ...
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Gamasutra
Q&A: EA's Craig Malanka On Social Strategy
Mediapost.com
We always look at the sports through the lens of our games. We can be on Facebook instantly engaging our consumers about that goal or highlights through the game or tie it back to the game in that regard. In our NHL game, with the [current] playoffs, ...
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The9 Invests in US Social Game Developer
Marbridge Consulting
Zhu added that The9 is in serious discussions with Crowdstar to introduce Crowdstar's most successful Facebook social games to the China market, and to cooperate with Crowdstar on mobile social games.
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Ghost Recon Goes Free-to-Play on PC
1UP.com
By Chris Pereira, 05/24/2011 Free-to-play isn't just a model for Facebook games and MMOs anymore, as evidenced by games like Battlefield Heroes and Play4Free. Ubisoft will be adopting the free-to-play model for a new Ghost Recon game it announced today ...
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Intel Capital Unveils $24.5M in Investments
Xconomy
The new Intel portfolio companies include Burlingame, CA-based CrowdStar, which makes social games for Facebook and mobile devices; Las Vegas-based webcaster iStreamPlanet; Calabasas, CA-based Music Mastermind, which is developing an online platform ...
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Countdown: Bettman, Spirit on Facebook and Monta's tattoo
Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)
Atlanta is a big city and has hosted world class sporting events, but your team often played to a half empty building and an avg of 6000 households watched games on cable (Edm averaged 150000 households btw). I sincerely feel empathy for the die-hard ...
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Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)
Gree Pushes Mobile Games Beyond Japan
Wall Street Journal
In the US, social games, such as those played on Facebook, have mainly targeted traditional computer users. But in Japan, where cellphones have been Internet-capable for years, more people play such games on mobile handsets. Japanese mobile users are ...
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THQ: Next WWE game to have advanced game engine
Gamepur
A new status on official Facebook page of WWE Games points out that the next game in the franchise will have much improved game engine. THQ revealed on Facebook: "The second future WWEgames (THQ) anagram tweeted by Creative Director, Cory Ledesma has ...
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Gamepur
Not Nearly Over—Why PC Games Are Not Dying and Won't Anytime Soon
Gamezebo
With computers almost completely disseminated through developed countries, every type of game has a place. From hard-core games found on consoles to $10 indie games to casual games on Facebook, a much larger variety of price points, genres, ...
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The tech boom is back, strap yourself in
Sydney Morning Herald
Zynga is responsible for those awful flash games in Facebook; Mafia Wars, Farmville and Cityville. It's run by Mark Pincus, the poster child for a bad boy in Silicon Valley. The games are horrible, but they're addictive as hell. ...
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Sydney Morning Herald
Review: Sony Ericsson Xperia Play - The PlayStation Phone
IntoMobile
Nintendo is having none of it, leaving it a two-horse race between the established video game pros. The only real x-factor is Apple, who has done a great job at popularizing mobile apps, games being the most used among them. ...
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IntoMobile
Rocket Ninja Seeing Retention Rise After Launching 3D Mode in Wrestler ...
Inside Social Games
By AJ Glasser Social game developer Rocket Ninja debuted its proprietary 3D Facebook game engine, Shr3d, this month in pro wrestling combat game Wrestler: Unstoppable. The company reports that just 10 days live, the game is already seeing a spike in ...
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The Oregon Trail v. Frontierville: A Trademark Battle for our Childhood
American University Intellectual Property Brief
The Learning Company, owners of the Oregon Trail franchise, want to keep the Trail to themselves and are suing Zynga, the makers of Farmville, Cityville, and Frontierville, over the "Oregon Trail" expansion pack to the Facebook-based game Frontierville ...
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Game Night at the NYPL
New Yorker (blog)
Collaboration was built into the game in other ways. Even before the players set foot in the library, a social experiment had begun. Through a Facebook group and the Twitter hashtag #findthefuture, some players had already started to form teams and lay ...
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New Yorker (blog)
Five New Tools to Help You Add a Game to Your Website
Entrepreneur
Mikal E. Belicove is a market positioning, social media, and management consultant specializing in website usability and business blogging. His latest book, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Facebook, is now available at bookstores. ...
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Entrepreneur
Bing Gordon Of Kleiner-Perkins Talks Zynga At TechCrunch Disrupt
SFGate.com (blog)
In other words, about 10 percent of Facebook social game users like the ones Zynga produces become paid users in Asia. That's about $60 per person, but he says it's going to be higher than that in America. Arrington asked if that idea that everything ...
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Announcing first speakers at GamesBeat 2011 conference on mobile games
VentureBeat
Console games dominated the news in the past, but the center of attention is rapidly shifting toward mobile as more and more users play games on the run. While there are hundreds of millions of gamers on Facebook, analysts believe the number could be ...
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VentureBeat
Fans cry foul over panhandling dog at NYC stadiums
msnbc.com
5 jersey for Mets games, pinstripes for Yankee games and has a plastic container for donations at her feet. Outcry over Coffee's alleged abuse prompted the creation of a Facebook page, "Stop Abusing Coffee," that already has more than 5000 fans. ...
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msnbc.com
Cats get into gaming with tablet games from Friskies
TG Daily
You can play the games for free and learn more about Friskies and the new games by visiting www.GamesforCats.com or www.Facebook.com/Friskies. Users will soon be able to download the apps from the iTunes app store. Friskies plans to release more games ...
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TG Daily
Tessera Technologies, Zynga, Art & Fragrances: Intellectual Property
Bloomberg
In 2010 Zynga and the Learning Co. had discussed having the San Francisco-based company create a version of the game for Facebook Inc.'s social-media website. Discussions came to naught, according to the complaint, and Learning Co. used a different ...
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MMObility: Three new games for your browser or smartphone
Joystiq
... and travel-friendly games around, including browser-based and smartphone MMOs. Join him as he investigates the best, worst, and most daring games to hit the smallest devices! Email him suggestions, or follow him on Twitter, Facebook, or Raptr.
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'Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3′ Reveal Trailer
The Flickcast
by John Carle, May 24 2011 Last week, Activision launched the Facebook page and released teaser trailers for quite possibly one of the most anticipated games of the past decade: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. The teasers hinted that the game would be ...
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GeoPalz Launches Game Site To Promote Kids' Fitness
techrockies.com
GeoPalz said, in addition to media access and devices in the home, it will be adding an API to allow third party websites to unlock products and credits on sites like iTunes, Facebook, Target, and REI.
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Women's afternoon TV: RIP
Macleans.ca
In an article published by Business Insider in 2010, Tod Sacerdoti wrote that the true soap opera killer was Zynga, a company that provides interactive Facebook games and thereby "turned casual online gaming into social gaming." Why would people follow ...
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Rugby World Cup 2011 facebook page reaches one million "likes"
Insidethegames.biz
The tournament organisers will be using these various media platforms to interact with and offer news services to fans, including results, interviews, videos, photos and games. Fans wishing to "like" the Rugby World Cup on facebook can do so by ...
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Games can rival Hollywood
Eurogamer.net
Films inspired by the medium of games have been around for years. In the olden days there was The Wizard, and more recent times there's been Scott Pilgrim. There's even a film about Facebook. Does Malmberg think a gigantic event like the PSN hack could ...
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GameHouse Announces Mobile Games Line-Up
PR Newswire (press release)
With the largest catalog of 3000 casual games and counting, we offer more games and more ways to play them-all across an expansive mix of channels including online, download, smartphone, tablets, and Facebook. We believe that it's good to game and that ...
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LEGO Universe Developer: I Will Never Make an MMO Again
Kotaku
Expect to see us foray across a ridiculous variety of game ideas, including "real games" such as Vorp!, the first multiplayer online battle arena and best-looking game on Facebook (in this author's so humble opinion), currently in alpha testing. ...
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Another Game and Another Blown Opportunity
BoSox Injection
I personally stand in Papelbon's corner on this one. You can't just let "GREATNESS" walk out the door and right now Papelbon is "GREAT." For all the latest news and analysis from BoSox Injection, follow us on Twitter, Facebook, or with our RSS feed.
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BoSox Injection
Matrix Games to Publish Frozen Synapse!
Gamasutra
Be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel, Facebook page, and Twitter account to get more details on Frozen Synapse and other Matrix products! David Heath, Director of Operations for Matrix Games, said " Frozen Synapse is unique and exciting in so ...
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Watchlist: A Self-Conscious Web Experiment From CBS News
New York Times (blog)
In the premiere episode the struggle by Ms. Lazar and her producers to find an intelligent way to discuss current events through the lenses of Facebook and Twitter (here, as in most discussions, the alpha and omega of social networking) was palpable ...
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New York Times (blog)
World Golf Tour Builds World-Class Sports Advertising Team with Mark Jung and ...
Gamut News
WGT is currently running a campaign for Ketel One (www.facebook.com/KetelOne) that includes a Facebook promotion, virtual golf tournament and Ketel One in-game avatars. WGT also worked closely with Wild Tangent, a top online gaming media agency partner ...
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Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green playing games with each other or not?
Green Celebrity Network
Be sweet -- please share good news on Facebook, Like this website, Stumble, Digg, and help RE-TWEET! Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green playing games with each other or not? Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green are the new hot in Hollywood celebrity couple ...
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Industry Stalwarts Join 2011 Game Developers Conference Online Main Conference ...
PR Newswire (press release)
Programming expert Chris Mayer, founder of Night Owl Games, the company behind massively multiplayer Facebook strategy title Dungeon Overlord, and a veteran of companies such as NCSoft, EA and Sony Online. In addition to the above Main Conference ...
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Data-Swiping 'Super Mario' Games Infiltrate Chrome Web Store
SecurityNewsDaily
"This item can read every page that you visit — your bank, your web email, your Facebook page, and so on." "This gives your computer a virus," reads a comment posted five days ago. Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer for the Finnish security firm ...
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SecurityNewsDaily
Giveaway: Wii games winner announced
OCRegister
Giveaway winner will receive this collection of Nintendo Select Wii video games. There were over 100 entries in the giveaway. Many readers left comments on OC Moms as well as in Facebook, and posted and Tweeted the link out to their friends. ...
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MLS Fantasy Gurus: Help with Week 11
Major League Soccer
You can also get updates on these and MLS Projected Starting Lineups from us at MLS Fantasy Gurus on Facebook and Twitter every week. Tip(s) of the week: New York, LA, Houston, Dallas, Seattle and Colorado will all play twice. ...
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Major League Soccer
Taun Taun's Game Finds: ThinkGeek's iCade lives & Kirby's Epic Yarn pouch
Examiner.com
With more 3DS games coming out, it would be great to see more items to choose from. To stay connected, click the "Subscribe" button above. In addition, you can also follow me on Twitter and Facebook. Got a news tip? Send it to tanya@8bitfix.com.
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American Licorice Company Announces Sour Punch "How Far Would You Go" Video ...
PR Newswire (press release)
The video contest adds another layer to the interactive elements on the Sour Punch® Facebook page and brand website where registered visitors can interact with other fans, play Sour Punch® games, and watch videos from past contests. ...
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QB Wilson looking at Auburn
msnbc.com
On Saturday, Demetrius Goode announced — via Facebook, of course — that he will be transferring from Alabama to North Alabama. By way of the Birmingham News, North Alabama head coach Terry Bowden has confirmed via a statement that the running back ...
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VIACOM'A' : The Game is About to Change! EA and Spike TV Come Together for ...
4-traders (press release)
Spike, home to the annual Video Game Awards, the biggest night of the year for the game industry, plans to deliver more than 20 hours of live E3-related programming across multiple platforms - including television, online, Facebook and mobile - from a ...
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Jennifer Lawrence Talks Kristen Stewart Comparisons
Clevver TV
I'm Joslyn Davis in Hollywood with the latest word on The Hunger Games. MTV just sat down with Academy Award nominee Jennifer Lawrence to get the latest on Katniss Everdeen, and of course talk about how her life is changing. The conversation turned to ...
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Riverdale duo more than pitcher, catcher
The Daily News Journal
MURFREESBORO — Rachel Albritton and Katie Brown kick-started their friendship three years ago on Facebook shortly before the two became neighbors. The two Riverdale softball players have been inseparable since then, be it at the pool in the offseason ...
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