Posts Tagged ‘Free Games Online’

myYearbook and its 20 million users are about to get a lot more OMG and a healthy dose of POP as talented games designers OMGPOP have agreed to release their games on myYearbook’s newly opened application platform. OMGPOP has consistently been one of our favorite games portals here at Social Times, and we covered its battle with standard casual gaming portals last year. The game designers focus on fun realtime multiplayer games that require active participation and create a stronger community across their games. Will this lead to OMGPOP making more distribution deals in the future?

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As we suspected a few days ago in our 3 Reasons That Disney Would Buy Playdom article, Disney has announced plans to acquire Playdom.  The financials have been disclosed and at $563.2 million plus a $200 million earnout, the deal is larger than the approximately $400 million dollar deal that EA made to buy Playfish.  As we reported, the match is good, based on Playdom’s existing properties and Disney’s IP.  Once again, social gaming explodes to a whole new level… When will the growth stop?

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Reports are flying in this week that Disney is in late stage talks to buy Playdom for $600 million.  The rumors are strongly confirmed by TechCrunch sources and seem to have some weight.  What would Disney have to gain by acquiring a company like Playdom?  A lot.  Playdom touches 40,000,000 MAUs and produces great games like Wild Ones.  The company has strong management in its ex-EA CEO John Pleasants and CFO Christa Quarles.  I take a look at some of the reasons they would be interested.

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