This week’s social gaming news included Namco and Konami entering social gaming with Pacman and Frogger, Raj covering a special report on emotions in social games at GDC 2010, OfferPal releasing a report indicating that 30% of gamers can’t afford virtual currency, MySpace and hi5 announcing a big shift to games, and Digital Chocolate releasing NanoTowns and Sony releasing their classic PoxNora on Facebook. Read on for more!
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Launch a social media campaign that will build your brand and deliver results in our online Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting June 7. Speakers include Abigail Cusick (Bravo Digital), Gregory Galant (Sawhorse Media), Alex Leo (Thomson Reuters Digital), Jim Tobin (Ignite Social Media), and many more. Read the reviews. This week’s news had Adobe partnering with Playspan to power the marketplace, the founders of MySpace acquiring the Mindjolt games aggregator, Playdom acquire another social gaming firm, hi5 create a direct Facebook porting API and hi5 acquiring Big Six Games. We also took a look at a report by Lolapps involving social game invitation diffusion, reviewed HitOrnot, a music-based social game, and looked at Match Defense: Toy Soldiers, a game that involves a connected game experience over Facebook and XBox. Read on for more!
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The Social Games industry had a flurry of news this week. A report indicated Zynga could be worth more than $3 billion, Playfish announced that players sent 60 million valentine’s day virtual goods across Pet Society, Zynga confirmed that there will be no subscription for Farmville, WildTangent entered the advertising game with BrandBoost, we talked with Manu Rekhi at Lolapps about their Dante’s Inferno game and more! Read on for more.
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This week, we saw a Facebook Connected version of Diner Dash, the legendary creator of Ultima start a Facebook games startup, Zynga open a new office in Bangalore, Miniclip.com partner up with Social Gold, and we reviewed the King of Kung Fu. Read on for information!
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Another big week for Social Games, with Microsoft, Electronic Arts, Zynga and Offerpal making big announcements. Microsoft is considering purchase of Crowdstar, makers of Happy Acquarium, Electronic Arts has announced a Madden NFL Game and more for Facebook, Zynga acquires the makers of Friends for Sale and Offerpal releases tasks, an easy new way to buy virtual currency. Read on for more!
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The world of social games was abuzz this week of January 25, 2010. EA is looking for more social games companies, Sony Online Entertainment partners with Live Gamer, Taito uses OpenFeint for its iPhone titles, Break Media enters Social Gaming, and more. Read on for this week’s social gaming news.
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