Posts Tagged ‘MMORPG’

Imagine being whisked away to a land of talking pink squirrels, bouncy ivory trees, and an iconic little white cat in trouble. Well that’s exactly what you’ll encounter in Sanrio Digital’s Hello Kitty Online, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) featuring Hello Kitty and all of her fluffy, friendly pals. Players can create a [...]

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.

Social gaming has some 250 million+ players on Facebook alone, its top companies have valuations in the billions, it attracts heavy investment from major corporations like EA, Disney, and Google, but here’s something social gaming doesn’t really have: Its own Wikipedia entry. As of this writing, Wikipedia’s Social Games entry is a placeholder, while the [...]

Microsoft has done a massive overhaul on its popular search engine Bing today with the notable addition of Bing Entertainment which will provide an avenue for users to discover and search for media and games. By integrating easy to access casual games and other media, Microsoft hopes for searchers to stick around longer. Microsoft has [...]

We recently wrote about social gaming companies receiving funding, highlighting SGN’s success in securing $2m in funding from Tomorrow Ventures and Zynga supposedly raising $147m from Japan’s SoftBank amidst a competitive market. As the dust settles, another significant player announcing a round of funding is Playdom who just raised a $44m round from Bessemer, New [...]

We here at Social Times watch social games on a daily basis, and in light of the social gaming phenomena and some of the recent analyses of the subject, we are proud to introduce our 6 part series regarding the evolution of the gaming industry from version 1.0 to 2.0. We’ll be discussing how the [...]

This week has been shockingly fun for the visitors of E3 – from the advent of Microsoft Kinect for Xbox 360 to the Playstation®Move system that uses a wii-like controller – there’s not been a shortage of announcements that will be renovating the current entertainment landscape. Amidst the flurry of announcements is a deal between [...]

Social gaming has a unique appeal that’s taken the traditional industry by storm. One can now go on slideshare.net and find an influx of presentations on what features social games should include, but there’s not much availability of literature, asides from works from Nicole Lazarro, that invigorates the intellectual mind about the appeal of social [...]

Social Gaming Titans Zynga and DeNA are suiting up for a battle of epic proportions. Zynga’s aggressive plans for eastward expansion seem to be solidified by an infusion of $147m from Japan’s SoftBank. Despite Zynga’s potent warchest, Japan’s DeNA already has a strong foundation on mobile and PC Platforms. DeNA is also turning up the [...]

Acquiring investment isn’t a simple task – as many indie game developers have come to know. Despite jaw-dropping requirements some VC’s may pose, there are players in the social gaming space making headway, the latest of which is Sneaky Games. The Austin-based social gaming company announced raising a ‘six-figure’ investment from angels and Liahona Ventures. [...]

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 [...]