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Developers Now Working with Google+ Social Gaming Team
SlashGear
A few game developers who have thus far made their bulks of cash from working with Facebook for social gaming have spoken with the folks at Gamasutra on how they plan on working with Google as soon as possible to have their games interact to the ...
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Smeet: Let's Meet in a Virtual World
Inside Social Games
Smeet launched in September of 2010 and steadily climbed in monthly active and daily active users to a high of 582000 MAU and 63000 DAU between February and May 2011 when it first turned up on our list of emerging Facebook games. The game took a heavy ...
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Inside Social Games
Quepasa Games' First Social Game Achieves 150000+ Installs in Its First 10 ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Cidade Maravilhosa - Rio is a city-building game that is localized for Latin American audiences and invites users to build their own Rio de Janeiro. The game's Facebook launch comes on the heels of successful launches on Orkut and Quepasa Corporation's ...
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Zynga Games May Be Valued at $15-20 Billion in IPO Preparation
Game Rant
Zynga Games is set to file an IPO which may see the company valued at 15 to 20 billion dollars – comparable to other gaming industry giants such as Electronic Arts. The undisputed top dog in the world of Facebook Games, Zynga, has just announced that ...
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Five seemingly contradictory things we learned from GameHorizon 2011
Pocket Gamer.Biz
As Louis Castle pointed out, the games that Zynga releases on Facebook are updated at least weekly, with junior team members given the responsibility to make key decisions quickly. Helped by real-time metrics, Facebook games are constantly being ...
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P&G's Bounty Picks Up Fans From Social Gaming
AdAge.com
The past two years have been all about Facebook and Zynga and the millions of people playing social games. And asking how do you monetize that -- is it through microtransaction, advertising, or both?" said Nielsen Games analyst Bradley Raczka. ...
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AdAge.com
Nintendo has 'no plans' to localize Xenoblade
GameSpot
In a posting to its Facebook account last night, the publisher thanked the fanbase for showing enthusiasm for the games, then broke the bad news. "We never say 'never,' but we can confirm that there are no plans to bring these three games to the ...
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Civilization World taps Live Gamer for monetization on Facebook
VentureBeat
As the Facebook game industry shifts toward Facebook's Facebook Credits virtual currency ahead of the July 1 deadline, Live Gamer is making itself useful in helping with the transition. New York-based Live Gamer is announcing today that it will handle ...
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Halo's creator has Facebook, mobile games and lots of money in its sights
Games.com News (blog)
It's designed to track analytics for all of its games, provide united leader board services and to be deployed through both Facebook and Apple's Game Center. (So, Bungie is lookin' at Facebook, eh?) Check out the full interview here, where the Parsons ...
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How Mobile Is Getting More Social
ClickZ News
Companies such as Zynga and Popcap Games, which already have valuable applications for their users on the web version of Facebook, will find single sign-on to be very effective in mobile too. For example, in a recent post, "How Popcap Games Cracked the ...
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ClickZ News
Tyranny in Farmville
OpenMarket.org
On the first count, Facebook's new rule seeking what almost amounts to exclusivity might be tight-fisted, but it's not that bad. It won't dictate prices in browser-based games, and I doubt it will even dictate prices in social gaming. ...
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Japan's Gaming Juggernaut Wants To Kill Facebook
Business Insider
Gree, the leader in mobile gaming in Japan, wants 1 billion users, its CEO told Reuters. And it wants to rival Facebook. First of all, though you may not have heard of it, Gree is pretty huge. It's a leader in Japan in mobile, social games, ...
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Business Insider
Perry: Gaikai Uses Modern, Not 5-yr-old Hardware
Tom's Hardware Guide
"World of Warcraft has an average 30 clicks before users can get into the game play, whereas 'Farmville' has an average of two clicks," Perry said. "Our focus is on how to make these big games convenient for playing on a platform like Facebook. ...
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AT&T signs deal to bring Zynga games to phones
Forbes
Financial terms were not disclosed. The announcement comes as Zynga, which also makes the popular Facebook game "FarmVille," is reportedly preparing to file papers for an initial public offering as soon as this week.
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Friendster Relaunches With Focus On Social Gaming
Gamasutra
Users can also log in with Facebook Connect and invite friends automatically from contact lists on networks including AOL, Gmail and Yahoo. Launched in 2002 as one of the first online social networks, Friendster grew to include a reported 115 million ...
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Gamasutra
In Gaming, Free-to-Play Can Pay
Wired News (blog)
By the mid '00s, we saw games imported from Korea, and by the end of the decade we saw native releases like Electronic Arts' free-to-play shooter Battlefield Heroes, and Zynga's free-to-play Facebook phenomenon FarmVille. The business model has since ...
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Wired News (blog)
MySpace Collapse: How The Social Network Fell Apart
Huffington Post
It took almost a year after Facebook had made the move for MySpace to finally agree to let developers onto the site. Of course, apps--including popular social games like Farmville--have contributed greatly to Facebook's success. ...
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Play, Policy, and Tree Planting: How Gaming Is Changing the World
Huffington Post
Players can also connect with their Facebook friends, sending gifts to each other and visiting neighboring maps to perform helpful actions. The key to games like Ecotopia is to engage a wide, diverse audience on Facebook and to format engagement in a ...
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Fan Cave crew heading west for All-Star Game
MLB.com
Fittingly, the two will mark the occasion on Social Media Day 2011, as the MLB Fan Cave is a fan engagement platform centered around shareable online content and fan interaction with O'Hara and Wagner via Facebook and Twitter. ...
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Interview with Howard Marks, Gamzee
socalTech.com
Facebook really saved the day, however, with games of Facebook which are free to play online. I didn't predict Facebook, but I just thought something would happen in that area. I think now, mobile games and tablet games are becoming important, ...
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socalTech.com
July 4th Guide: FarmVille, CityVille, FrontierVille & more
Games.com News (blog)
If not, you better prepare yourself, because your favorite Facebook games are already getting into gear with new July 4th items, features, and other exciting goodies. I know you don't want to miss any of the awesome limited time, All-American, red, ...
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Wrapup of ZINO's Entertainment Investment Forum
TechFlash
The free game sphere has grown significantly, and gamers would rather purchase add-ons. Markets have expanded as puzzle and Facebook games have attracted two groups that have strayed away from gaming in the past: the middle-aged population and females. ...
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HitPoint signs up Facebook back catalogue for TeePee Games discovery platform
Pocket Gamer.Biz
"HitPoint Inc. is known for creating well developed highly enjoyable titles so we were more than happy to include their titles in our catalogue of Facebook games," said head of content at TeePee, Darren Newnham. "We have very stringent quality controls ...
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Gamelab 2011: MUD Creator Bartle: 'Current Social Games Are Not Fun'
Gamasutra
"Games played on social network sites is what we mean by social games ... These games are categorized more by the platform than that they are social themselves." Most games on Facebook, "despite being called social, are basically solo games, ...
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Gamasutra
It's Social Media Day -- again!
CNN International
The league is giving everyone who has "liked" their favorite team on Facebook a chance to win tickets to the July 12 All-Star Game. Fans attending Thursday's nine MLB games who check in using the league's mobile app can get a free T-shirt if they're ...
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Facebook's Zuckerberg: TV, books, movies next in line for social disruption
GeekWire
We've already seen this in the games industry with the traditional big players now chasing companies like Zynga and other startups building social games. "The next 5 years are going to be about all the crazy things you can do now that all those people ...
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GeekWire
Holy Town: Facebook Gets a 'Christian Farmville'
Christian Post
He added, "She thought that allowing users to create their very own church would be fantastic, and it would provide a fantastic escape for Christians on Facebook who played other popular games." Immediately that very same day, he began designing the ...
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Christian Post
Going Beyond The Facebook Like Land Grab
AllFacebook
It's hard to avoid mention of game mechanics these days and for good reason: They work! Direct2Drive, an online distributor of Mac and PC games, wanted to leverage its Facebook fans to broaden its brand reach, create better word-of-mouth ...
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AllFacebook
The games people play
Ventura County Reporter
What sets this apart from other Facebook-based games are the detailed designs and the ability for cooperative play, solving puzzles alongside your Victorian pals. Of course, there is the ability to share every single (and I do mean every single) ...
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Ventura County Reporter
The rise of free-to-play games
PC Advisor
To some minds, it evokes the unpleasantness (for traditional gamers) of Facebook games such as FarmVille - a cynical system that's constantly trying to coax pennies out for you simply for the option to keep playing rather than waiting a few hours until ...
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PC Advisor
T Bone Burnett & Danny Elfman to Create Music for 'The Hunger Games'
mediabistro.com
Many Hunger Games fans have reacted happily to the announcement on Facebook. Lionsgate's head of film music Tracy McKnight explained: "The Hunger Games is such a special property – it has worldwide mass appeal, but it's also sophisticated, cerebral, ...
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mediabistro.com
Tablet For Elderly Well-Being On The Way
Twice
The preconfigured tablet features an intuitive interface with secure, one-touch access to video chats, email, the Internet, Facebook, games and puzzles, and other interactive content. No general computer knowledge is needed to operate Angela, ...
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Twice
Procter & Gamble finding new ways to clean up on Facebook
Cincinnati Business Courier (blog)
I don't play any games on Facebook, even though I feel really bad about myself when I see my friends sending "Farmville" gift requests to each other. And then they send me one and I don't do anything with it. The gift request just sits there on my wall ...
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"World of Warcraft" offers first chunk of game for free
IFC
Up until recently, there was a stigma attached to free-to-play games. Most examples of the category live on the web, in browser-based games or on Facebook, where an entertainment experience gets doled out in a slow dripfeed. ...
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Lolapps acquires a Flash game engine that makes Facebook games run fast
VentureBeat
When that game debuted last year, it was a step above the animation quality of many other Facebook games. "It's a strategic move for us," Sethi said in an interview. Lolapps used the engine again in its groundbreaking title, Ravenwood Fair, ...
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3 Surefire Ways To Turn Facebook Likes Into Love
AllFacebook
Even the NBA got the ball rolling — asking playoff fans to post their favorite play from the previous night's playoff game on Facebook, and then asking others to vote for the best video. It upped the fan base and boosted ratings for the games. ...
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UFC 132 Faber vs. Cruz: Preliminary Card Betting Guide
SBR Forum
The preliminary fights start at 6pm on facebook, followed by two fights at 8pm (ET) on Spike and the Main Event on pay-preview at 9pm(ET). The fight will feature two of the top 10 bantamweights in the world. The placement of the fight shows even ...
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SBR Forum
AF Expo 2011: Everything You Wanted to Know About Facebook
EContent (press release)
With videos of the extreme sports and athletes that the company sponsors, games, and contests, the purveyor of brown sugar water now has 21 million fans who it can reach and influence through its Facebook page. Handled correctly, a Facebook page can ...
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The Woman Who Organized The Illegal Celebrity/Wall Street Poker Games Was ...
Business Insider
... games and even said she hired women to come to the games and massage the players. She also named regular players in the illegal ring. After news of the story broke, she has "gone into hiding, even deleting her Facebook profile," Radar Online said. ...
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Business Insider
Field & Stream Fishing Launches New iOS Release
Business Wire (press release)
Rich social networking features have been built in that let players post their achievements to Facebook and global leaderboards. Players can also be notified of how well their friends are fishing the very same spot. "It is fun to tell a fish story, ...
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Letter: Facebook program will help parents monitor kids
NorthJersey.com
Many parents today are not aware of their kids' actions on a computer; a large majority of kids spend hours and hours on Facebook posting pictures, commenting friends, playing games, and etc. A program like "A Peek at Facebook" for adults at the ...
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Nexon Mobile Unveils MapleStory Cygnus Knights Edition for iOS
Business Wire (press release)
Nexon Mobile also plans to add a real time PvP mode in the mini games which will support platform integration with Facebook and Twitter. MapleStory Cygnus Knights Edition is the second MapleStory iOS title released in the Nexon Mobile catalogue. ...
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BlackBerry OS 7 Will Let Any App Post to Twitter, Facebook, & More
BerryReview
That means apps like BerryReader, Games, screenshot apps, and more will all be able to tap into your Facebook, Twitter, and other networks without having to setup their own solution. It will simply be able to use that built in menu to send a tweet or ...
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Chartwell Announces Youwin.com
MarketWatch (press release)
... Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter for the latest news. YouWin.com is the new brand of WinUnited.com. Mark Blandford, founder of SportingBet.com has acquired the major shareholding and rebranded Youwin.com as part of his gaming portfolio via Valhalla ...
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ABC15 celebrates Social Media Day!
ABC15.com (KNXV-TV)
... and I got involved with facebook because my mom was connected. Relatives I have not seen for years I now interact with regularly. Social Media is definitely not just for the kids. Jan Plog: It has helped me find old friends, play games with friends ...
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ABC15.com (KNXV-TV)
Astros prospect J.D. Martinez writes inspirational message on batting gloves
Examiner.com
He earned All-Star berths in three consecutive seasons, as well as being named the 2010 South Atlantic League MVP, for hitting .362 with 15 home runs, 64 RBI, 31 doubles and three triples while posting a 1.030 OPS in 88 games at Class A Lexington. ...
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Disney Channel's 'Friends For Change' Takeover
Clevver TV
Of course, it was a special 3-part Friends for Change Games -- which meant the viewers got to see almost all of their favorite DC stars participate in physical challenges, all in the green or environmentally friendly theme. This weekend, 12.3-million ...
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