Posts Tagged ‘Gaming’

Over a hundred submissions have been posted on Tumblr and the number of entries is expected to continue to grow until the contest closes after Christmas. Last summer, Wattpad’s hugely successful photo-sharing contest on Instagram received over 2,500 submissions.

Join Baratunde Thurston (left), The Onion’s Director of Digital and author of How to Be Black, for an entertaining look at creative social media campaigns in our Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting February 16. Other speakers include Morin Oluwole (Facebook), Tim Devane (bitly), and SocialTimes' writer Devon Glenn.   Register now.

Sony Computer Entertainment now has dedicated social media applications for the handheld device, including Facebook, foursquare, Skype and Twitter. But we will not hold the device until its launch in Japan by the end of 2011, followed by the U.S. and Europe early next year.

For over half a century, Peanuts has graced newspapers, books, television and Broadway, and now the brand is changing with the digital times. The brand is timeless. I am sure it will be very profitable in the social media world.

“We’ve worked closely with Rovio to bring the first full version of Angry Birds to the TV — and best of all, we’re including it for free with the top-of-the-line XS model,” said Roku Founder and CEO Anthony Wood.

Hey US gamers! If you’re dying to find out what’s going on in Los Angeles at the annual E3 Electronic Entertainment Expo, you’re in for a treat—the whole thing is streaming live on YouTube.

The way I see it, the GameSpot app for iPad takes advantage of the iPad’s responsive high-resolution multi-touch display to create an enhanced browsing and search experience. Users can quickly search for specific games by title, or browse reviews by genre, platform, release date or score. Sometimes, you can find some awesome tunes, too. The app lets users bookmark games they already own as well as the games they want to learn more about. In addition, users can preview screenshots of gameplay before they buy, and access walk-through videos to help guide them through the ins and outs of a game after they purchase.

Hey game developers!  If you’ve got a great idea for a new mobile game you could win up to $10,000 in the GameCast 2011 Contest, hosted by MoMinis, a cross-platform mobile gaming solution for developers.  How does the contest work?  It’s simple.  Just build your mobile game using the MoMinis Studio and you could win [...]

Ravenwood Fair, reported as last week’s top weekly gainer, is at the top of this week’s list with a weekly growth of 1.1 million active users. As of now, Ravenwood Fair is about 500,000 active users ahead of It Girl, a Crowdstar creation.

I am the kind of guy who wants to sit back and play a game without having any types of distractions. I don’t want to have to get up from the couch to let my dog in, and I don’t want my messenger to jingle every single time I receive a message; Raptr is a service that – in my opinion anyways – creates distractions.

Gamification is changing the way companies are hiring. Zynga was recently valued at $5.5 Billion dollars and mobile gaming as an industry is expected to grow up to $10 Billion dollars by 2014. Digg lays off 37% of its workforce and San Francisco is wondering where is all the talent?