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Facebook Gaming Actually Is Being Worked on at Activision
Business Insider
Now, however, Kotick has stated that Activision is indeed working on Facebook. "Sometimes we need some kind of a specialized skill –like right now there is a lot of work being done on Facebook games. We've always been a platform agnostic company, ...
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Dexter will cut Facebook into itsy bitsy pieces with his new social game
Games.com News (blog)
The game, developed by Mark Ecko Entertainment's Ecko Code studio, is called Dexter: Slice of Life, and it sounds like no Facebook game we've ever heard of. According to Gamerlive.tv, which had an in-depth preview of the game at this year's Comic-Con ...
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New Facebook Game Teaches Cybersecurity Skills
Patch.com
By Holly Nunn The cyber security game CyberVille can be accessed through Facebook. The Arlington-based Air Force Association is continuing its effort to educate young people on the importance of cybersecurity by meeting students where they are: on ...
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Microsoft Drops Into Social Gaming From the Cloud
All Things Digital
In return for the assistance, the game developers must host their games on Windows Azure, which is the name of Microsoft's cloud technology. Today, Amazon hosts many online games, including big Facebook games, developed by Zynga and others. ...
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A Facebook Game that's Actually Good for Something: MyConservationPark Links ...
PR Web (press release)
Good World Games and The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund are excited to announce their partnership in MyConservationPark's Gorilla mission, playable at http://www.myconservationpark.com/fossey. It's a fun, educational Facebook game that allows players to ...
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Developers' big decision: Whether to bet the farm on Facebook
InfoWorld (blog)
Zynga, developer of the popular Facebook games FarmVille, FrontierVille, and Mafia Wars, among others, is a current darling among the latest round of high-tech IPOs. In its pre-IPO filing with the SEC, Zynga revealed it earned almost $600 million in ...
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Gameloft's 'Order & Chaos' Hits Facebook
Touch Arcade
Considering all this, the most interesting part of the last podcast is a Facebook game of all things, which should be more than a little familiar to some of you (proper part queued up for your viewing pleasure): Utilizing the Unity web player plugin, ...
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Facebook Apps Provider North Social Steps Up Their Game With Hire From ...
Benzinga
"North Social tools level the playing field for everyone looking to take advantage of Facebook's reach. The next level of innovation will center around deeper user engagement, which is something gaming companies know a lot about," said Alex Bernstein, ...
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Playdom teases new game Galaxy of Wonder
Gamezebo
By Andrew Webster Playdom has been churning out excellent Facebook games on a regular basis lately, with recent hits ranging from ESPN Sports Bar & Grill and NBA Dynasty to Gardens of Time and Deep Realms. While we already know the developer is hard at ...
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Zynga Filing Reveals Company's Extensive Exclusivity Deal With Facebook
Gamasutra
In addition, Zynga has agreed to inform Facebook of any new games on the platform at least a week before launch, and exclusivity terms apply to these titles as soon as they go live. To hold up its own end of the bargain, Facebook has committed to help ...
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Why Social Games Are Eating the Industry's Lunch
Business Insider
Strategy, simulation, RPG and beat-'em-up games have some very prominent examples throughout the decades from the PC and console gaming spheres and underneath the banner ads, the Flash-based graphics, the Facebook integration and everything else, ...
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Game Insight Shuns iOS for Android, Prepares to Tell Facebook Crime Story
Inside Social Games
For example, Trushkina explains that life simulation game Life Story did well for Game Insight on Orkut, but failed to perform on Russian social networks. Its top Facebook game, Mystery Manor, is doing well on just three networks — monetizing ...
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Try Fruit Ninja for free on Android before it dices up Facebook
Games.com News (blog)
(Well, that's like ... the whole game, right?) Pretty much. Look, if you haven't downloaded the game after reading two paragraphs on it, there's pretty much no excuse for it. The game just entered its alpha testing phase on Facebook, ...
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Let It Fly on Facebook
Gamasutra
Mr Jiebo Zeng, the PIC of TC mini-games studio said it's great to have cooperation with such strong and experienced game distributer. MOffY has strong technical team to complete the intergration as a Facebook game developer and market this game with ...
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The Google+ Early Adopter Versus the Facebook Mom
Forbes (blog)
So it is to women that brands seek to woo and engage on Facebook with casual social games, contests, how to videos and of course, coupons and more coupons. The growing number of women, or more specifically mothers (and fathers too), are also the reason ...
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CoD and Farmville are both important, says Square Enix
Videogamer.com
But at the same time, you have millions of people playing Farmville on Facebook, and again, this type of game is not wrong. These consumers can't be wrong. "I think both are important. Both of these games are right, both of these games are doing things ...
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Pet Society: Vacation takes your Facebook pet on a tropical iPhone journey
Games.com News (blog)
Aside from granting you bonuses upon your initial login, however, your Facebook level doesn't carry over here, and you'll start from Level 1. After being run through a general tutorial, you'll learn that many of the Facebook game's elements have been ...
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Social Games Studio Vostu Countersues Zynga Over Copying Claim
Gamasutra
by Mike Rose [Social/Online, Business] Social gaming start-up Vostu has hit back at Facebook giant Zynga's claims that it is blatantly copying its most popular games, by filing a countersuit with the US District Court in the Northern District of ...
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Mobile MMO Order & Chaos Online coming to Facebook
Gamezebo
Earlier this year the sci-fi first-person shooter series NOVA came to the social network with NOVA Elite, a free-to-play, multiplayer focused shooter with in-game microtransactions. The developer has also released a pair of original Facebook games as ...
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XLGames making Civilization MMO
Joystiq
by Jef Reahard on Jul 21st 2011 9:00AM Get ready, Civilization fans, as your favorite franchise is heading to MMO-land (and no, we're not talking about the Civ World Facebook game). A couple of months ago we told you about XLGames' partnership with ...
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BBC Worldwide to publish independent games
Digital Spy
Harris added that BBC Worldwide is to release games on a number of platforms in the near future. "We have Facebook titles under development, we're working on consoles, Flash and XBLA and PSN," he said. "Over the next year you will hopefully start ...
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Roku revamps hardware, get Angry Birds, doesn't raise prices
ConsumerReports.org
The new streaming players, which wear the Roku 2 banner, also get some new games, including support for the popular—and addictive—Angry Birds, plus access to Facebook and movies from Epix HD, as well as some Netflix enhancements. ...
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Facebook users revolt over 'diabolical' iPhone app
Financial Times
"There has always been that sense that it lagged behind the Facebook feature set. It got location, but it doesn't have any games." Joe Hewitt, the creator of Facebook for iPhone, left the company in May, after earlier stopping work on the project amid ...
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Bingo Blitz on Facebook proves that grandma's old game still has some life
Games.com News (blog)
by Brandy Shaul, Posted Jul 21st 2011 12:41AM While there are already quite a few Bingo games on Facebook, Bingo Blitz can easily take the cake for having the most exciting name. Buffalo Studios claims that Bingo Blitz isn't "your Grandma's Bingo ...
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Quepasa Buying Pa.-Based myYearbook.com
ABC News
The myYearbook site is popular among high school-aged users, who use it to chat, play games and buy and sell items with virtual money. Quepasa, whose own networking site is aimed at Latinos and also features online games, said it would pay $18 million ...
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Want to make a show more social? Start with the script
Reuters
By Ryan Lawler at GigaOm Much of what we think about when it comes to social TV happens when a show hits the air and viewers start tweeting about it and sharing moments on Facebook. But to truly leverage social media to promote a TV series, ...
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ASSASSIN'S CREED: Planning A Game Franchise
WhatCulture!
Since the first game was released in 2007 the brand has been ever expanding, Revelations will become the fourth chapter in the main series. There have been four other games released into the handheld market, and even a promotional Facebook game, ...
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EA Unveils Special Editions of Star Wars: The Old Republic -- Available for ...
MarketWatch (press release)
StarWarsTheOldRepublic.com/pre-order , follow the game on Twitter at http://twitter.com/swtor or "Like" Star Wars: The Old Republic on Facebook at http://facebook.com/starwarstheoldrepublic . * Conditions and restrictions apply. See www. ...
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Facebook-- Pied Piper of the New World Order's technological control grid
OpEdNews
Along with that, Facebook games provide useful information about a person by cloaking personality questions inside a gift wrap of fantasy. Facebook also knows who your real friends are. Even if you have a page with 5000 friends, list no personal ...
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More info on Battlelog, the Facebook of Battlefield 3
CNET
While there's no shortage of statistical sites for Battlefield games, the Battlelog service aims to be different with an infusion of social features. In an official blog update posted today, DICE describes Battlelog as a service where "players will be ...
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The Game Of The Summer: Goodman League vs. Drew League
Dime Magazine
This is a game that we've never had before. It's a mega-game." What started as back-and-forth trash talking on Facebook and Twitter between the leagues turned into a reality after Durant went over and played in the Drew. "He came and played and he ...
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Google+ meets with early success
San Jose Mercury News
Nor does it have the massive list of games and other apps built by independent developers and outside companies like Zynga that run on the Facebook platform. There has been criticism that Google+ is too male-centric, although Gundotra and Horowitz ...
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NBA 2k12 to feature legends Jordan, Bird and Magic
Examiner.com
Take a look at the covers. Which one do you like the best? Is there anyone out there who will pursue all three covers? Follow Kevin McGuire's sports video game updates and conversation on Google+, Twitter and Facebook.
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'The Hunger Games' Official Teaser Poster
Clevver TV
The poster's debut came over on the Official Hunger Games Facebook Page, which is pretty amazing and has a really great run-down on all of the characters. And ultimate fans, if you haven't entered the Ultimate Hunger Games Fan Sweeps yet, you've gotta ...
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It's Obvious Why Zynga Wanted PopCap So Badly
Business Insider
Now we know why Zynga was so desperate: its amended IPO filing revealed new details about Zynga's relationship with Facebook, which is much deeper than we thought. In particular, most of Zynga's biggest hit games are exclusive to the Facebook platform, ...
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Jets lineman Kris Jenkins opts to retire due to ailing knees
AHN | All Headline News
The mind is always willing to play, but my body deserves the rest," Jenkins stated on Facebook Wednesday. Selected 44th overall by the Carolina Panthers in the 2001 NFL Draft, Jenkins played in four Pro Bowl games and was selected to three All-Pro ...
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Battlefield: Bad Company 2 from EA available for Sony Ericsson's Xperia PLAY
Reuters (press release)
... a solid reputation for its pioneering and market leadership in mobile gaming. For more information about EA Mobile, please visit www.EAMobile.com, join us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/EAMobile or follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/EAMobile. ...
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Get Ready to Rumble! Battle Bears Characters Take Their Fight to FunChat
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Follow @FunMobility on Twitter, friend us on Facebook, or visit www.funmobility.com to learn more about the company and products. SkyVu Entertainment, Inc. produces original mobile-social games. SkyVu specializes in creating original character ...
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The day technology takes over
Your Houston News
Facebook, Twitter, video games, texting, iPods and iPads are just a few of the everyday tools in a teen's life. Constantly feeling connected with our friends, the obsessive technological engagement keeps us feeling as if life is one big party that ...
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4th & Battery™ Brings Make-A-Wish Dream to Life with Allied Star Police App ...
PR Newswire (press release)
4th & Battery is expected to produce several games per year, primarily small-scale, arcade-style games for platforms ranging from PC to Facebook® and iPhone. 4th and Battery is located in a secret druidic chamber below one of Seattle's largest public ...
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Vitrue expands with GamesThatGive buy
Atlanta Business Chronicle
Atlanta-based Vitrue said the acquisition will let it add gaming functionality to its social marketing platform -- the Vitrue SRM -- letting brands to create custom games on Facebook and maintain consistent brand visibility. The platform will now allow ...
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Twitter Finalizing $800 Million Funding Deal- $8 Billion Valuation
Online Social Media
JP Morgan who also have invested in Facebook are reportedly involved in the Twitter funding round through its digital-growth fund. DST also has stakes in games developer Zynga, who in fact provide Facebook with their most popular games. ...
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Fight breaks out at Iowa Games event
Dubuque Telegraph Herald
Jenkins, released by New York in February, said Wednesday on his Facebook page that he is "going to hang up the cleats!" DES MOINES -- Iowa State has been picked to finish ninth in the slimmed-down Big 12. The Cyclones were picked to finish ...
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Sexually Explicit Facebook Page Targeting Local Teens Removed
NBC4i.com
But hey, I guess it's all gonna be fun and games until someone loses a life." A Facebook representative issued a statement saying the company would not comment on any specific page. But less than an hour after NBC4's Nadia Bashir contacted the social ...
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