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Program Announced for Smartphone & Tablet Games Summit – Early Rate Ends Today

Neil Vidyarthi — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:28:10 +0000

The preliminary program for our Smartphone & Tablet Games Summit is announced. Join us in San Francisco on June 26^th for panels, discussions, and networking with leaders in the mobile games space. Early registration pricing is $299 and effective through today, April 18^th.

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Have You Tried the New House M.D. Facebook Game?

Neil Vidyarthi — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:21:35 +0000

One of the big questions that social game designers have is whether adding a brand to a game will improve its fate on Facebook. In 2008, it seemed obvious that including a cool brand would help a game go viral, but since then the top games have in fact been new brands developed by Zynga. In the meantime, a few branded games have been released, including EA’s Sims Social which has done tremendously, as well as a few Ubisoft titles.

Well, add one more to the Ubisoft lineup, as House MD: Critical Cases for Facebook has arrived.

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Pinterest Co-Founder Exits | Groupon’s Stock Drops | Tumblr’s Facebook Integration

Andrew Freedman — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 08:55:04 +0000

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Pinterest Co-Founder, Paul Sciarra, Leaves for Andreessen Horowitz (Paul Sciarra /Pinterest Blog)
I’ve accepted a role as an entrepreneur-in-residence at Andreessen Horowitz. I hope that eventually leads me back to doing what I’ve done for the past three and a half years — namely, building cool things with awesome people with unexpected results. Startup Grind Paul takes a significant amount of time in his post to clarify his role in building the company, perhaps to make sure it’s clear in the history books what he actually did to make Pinterest the huge success it is today. TechCrunch Andreessen Horowitz is one of the leaders among VCs building out the services that they offer to young companies beyond funding. The EIC role will see Sciarra potentially help Andreessen evaluate future investments, offer advice and assistance to its portfolio companies and perhaps even aid Andreessen Horowitz to be more disruptive in its own ventures. SocialTimes Co-founder Ben Silbermann recently gave an interview for a lengthy feature in Fortune magazine. He also sat down for a Q&A with investor and entrepreneur Chris Dixon at the SXSW Interactive conference in Austin, TX. Silbermann has been the sole window to the inner workings of a company that hasn’t done much self-promotion outside the Facebook Timeline. continued…

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ContraVille? Konami Signs Up to Make Games for Zynga.com

Neil Vidyarthi — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:00:10 +0000

There are no allegiances in gaming anymore. There was a time when developing games for the Nintendo Entertainment System meant that you were strongly pressured not to make games for other consoles. For me, I was on the Nintendo ship until they lost Square and Final Fantasy VII was produced for the Sony Playstation. Well, these days platform creators like Nintendo and Sony have new competition in the form of Zynga and OnLive, and Zynga just recently announced that Konami, one of the largest console game makers in the world, will be producing games for their new Zynga.com platform.

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GFace Promises a Cloud Gaming Social Network With Console Quality Gameplay

Neil Vidyarthi — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:52:12 +0000

A new social network that promises to combine high-quality console level games to easy, social matchmaking is gaining buzz around the web. The service is called GFace, and they’ve just recently opened up to a closed beta. We take a look at some of GFace’s features below.

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Lil’ Birds for iPhone: Trade Virtual Birds & Treats with Facebook Friends

Todd Ogasawara — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 05:30:39 +0000

We started off the holiday season in the U.S. with one of more social of holidays yesterday – Thanksgiving. If you’re looking for one more social outlet, there’s a new free game that seems to have impressed the people providing customer ratings in the iTunes App Store. The free iPhone game Lil’ Birds by Villain lets you find, feed, pet and breed virtual games.
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EA Mobile Launches Bejeweled, Dead Space and Monopoly for Kindle Fire

Kenna McHugh — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 15:36:20 +0000

Just in time for Amazon’s Kindle Fire, EA Mobile rolled out six of its most popular titles for the Amazon Appstore for Android. Each game has been optimized for Kindle Fire to offer incredible gameplay and mind-blowing graphics.
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Flurry: Nintendo DS Game Software Revenue Marketshare Sliding Rapidly as Smartphone Revenue Rockets Upward

Todd Ogasawara — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 05:00:40 +0000

Data source: Flurry.

Flurry, an analytics company that focuses on the mobile world, published their data of portable game software revenue marketshare from 2009 to 2011 (using projections to estimate November and December revenue). In it, the compare game revenues for the Nintendo DS, Sony PSP and the combined revenue for Android and iOS (iPhone/iPad). Based on this, Flurry asks:
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Top 10 Facebook Game Gets Movie Deal

Megan O'Neill — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:55:00 +0000

Fans of Monster Galaxy, the popular Facebook and mobile game from Gaia Interactive, are in for a treat. Gaia Interactive has partnered with Radar Pictures to bring Monster Galaxy to the big screen.
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Retro Atari Games Now Available For Android

Frank McPherson — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 20:48:19 +0000

Long time video game enthusiasts might appreciate the ability to play retro games on current mobile devices. If you count yourself amongst the enthusiast crowd and have a device running Android, you will be happy to know that Atari’s Greatest Hits is now available in the Android Market after being available for iOS since April.
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Kinectimals for Windows Phone: More Fun Than a Barrel of Lions, Tigers and Cheetahs

Todd Ogasawara — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 06:55:59 +0000

How much fun can a game be that has no car chases, weapons fire, thrown birds or violence? The answer is quite a lot if it is the newly released version of a an Xbox 360 favorite Kinectimals. Kinectimals for Windows Phone costs $2.99 and doesn’t require the human player to jump and twist as required when using an Xbox 360 with Kinect. Your fingers, however, will get a workout interacting with the virtual big cat on the screen.
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Angry Birds Passed Half-Billion Downloads. 100 Million Downloads in Just the Past Two Weeks!

Todd Ogasawara — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 05:06:57 +0000

Angry Birds will mark its 23rd month (not years) on the market next week Friday. It launched on December 11, 2009. In less than two years Angry Birds has become so iconic that it is recognized even by people who have never played the game. Let’s take a look at some of the other remarkable numbers this mobile game franchise has generated in less than two years starting with this item from Reuters:
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GameFly Adds Social Networking To Their Android App

Frank McPherson — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 21:59:12 +0000

GameFly is a very popular video game rental service that works like Netflix. If you have an Android phone and use GameFly you might want to grab the free GameFly app, which you can use to manage your game queue. A new version of the GameFly app has been released that adds social networking to what is already a very strong offering for gamers.
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Goldrun Puts Puppy World Virtual Dogs in the Real World for a Month Long Game

Todd Ogasawara — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 06:18:18 +0000

GoldRun, an Augmented Reality (AR) marketing firm, teamed with OMGPOP to create an AR campaign for the free iPhone game Puppy World. Taking photos of virtual Puppy World characters in the real world earns points. The winner of the month-long AR game will be able to choose which dog breed will be added to the Puppy World game.
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Burn the Rope (Xbox LIVE): Another Entertaining iOS Casual Game Makes its Way to Windows Phone

Todd Ogasawara — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 06:42:50 +0000

Burn the Rope has made its way from the iOS universe to Windows Phone. The $2.99 takes a relatively simple premise – burn all the rope by making sure the flame(s) always burn upwards – and creates increasingly complex scenarios to solve. Manipulating the phone to keep that flame moving upward is a lot tricker than it sounds after the first one or two simple scenarios.
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