A few days ago, mobile/social gaming crew Digital Chocolate (headed by the original founder of EA Trip Hawkins) released Gangs of Boomtown exclusively to Google+. According to our sister sites Inside Social Games, the game is “a blend of quests, multiplayer quickdraw contests and citybuilding mechanics” and seems to follow the same visual style as other Digital Chocolate games like Zombie Lane and Millionaire City.
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Zombie Lane, a new social game for Facebook by Digital Chocolate, brings the zombie craze to the social realm. Unlike other zombie games, Zombie Lane adds a little humor to the scenario — as if zombie fighting was a serious matter in the first place. The good news, however, is that Zombie Lane is currently recruiting players from around the globe to take back the neighborhood from endless waves of killer zombies.
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Digital Chocolate, one of the premier social games and mobile game makers in the US, announced they just raised $12 million in Series D funding. The question is what they’re going to do with this money, but I presume it’s going to be simple: make more games!
TechCrunch is reporting that social games makers Digital Chocolate are filing a lawsuit against Zynga for unspecified reasons. There aren’t any details about the particulars but it is likely related to a patent or a intellectual property matter. We’ve covered Digital Chocolate in depth over the years, and in fact had an in depth interview with founder Trip Hawkins (who was also the founder of Electronic Arts… yes, THAT Electronic Arts). Read on for more details. [Update: Zynga's quote is below]
Mobile and social games developer Digital Chocolate just announced a multi-million dollar revolving line of credit from Bridge Capital Holding, a subsidiary of a Silicon Valley-based full-service business bank. Digital Chocolate’s expansion into the social and mobile gaming scene seems to be paying off as they actively update their Nanoverse series on Facebook as well as their recently launched city builder Millionaire City that currently has 350K MAUs. Read more after the jump.
Simulation city-building games continue to be the prized genre being embraced by big and small developers alike, although several of these games are simply copies of one another. There are a few companies, however, that strive to differentiate themselves, and Digital Chocolate is notably one of them. Recently the multi-platform game developer announced the launch of Millionaire City, a city building game where players run their city as CEOs while making tons of money. This is their 5th launched title Facebook and prior games include NanoStar Siege, MMA Pro Fighter, NanoTowns, and Safari Kingdom.
Trip Hawkins, CEO of Digital Chocolate, posted an interesting article on the company’s blog last night, suggesting that growth in social gaming has become increasingly challenging, yet he effectively argues how virtual goods could grow to become a $60 billion market in the Western hemisphere. There are a number of interesting ideas postulated by the company CEO, all highlighted below.
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Digital Chocolate, best known for their various iPhone game hits, today announced the launch of NanoTowns, a city-building game for Facebook. The game focuses on creating a unique city by creating businesses, keeping citizens happy, and completing quests. It combines elements from old city-building games like SimCity with social elements from games like Cafe World and even Mafia Wars. Overall, the game has fun, cartoony graphics and is a rewarding experience, but only time will tell if it successfuly gains traffic: as of this writing the game has only 5,200 fans.
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Break Media has announced that they will be working on a new Social Game based on their CagePotato MMA Video property. The game will be titled “MMA FightPicker” and will involve elements of Social Games and Fantasy sports. Break Media opened up a game studio in China in Q4 ’09, and plans to release over 6 games for Break Media in 2010.
