European social game developer Wooga has over taken Playdom to become the 4th largest social gaming company on Facebook. Wooga boasts an active community of 20 MMAUs which it garnered within 20 months.
Social networking site myYearbook just announced the acquisition of Five Android apps and a multiplayer engine. These efforts are a part of myYearbook’s mobile strategy which is anticipated to see the biggest growth.
Interactive entertainment provider Nexon has invested $5M in A Bit Lucky, a social game developer. The two companies will work together to create high quality free-to-play social games. More after the jump
A new video from the Microsoft WGX team shows some intersting theories of how XBox Live could work in the future using Kinect and integrating with a ton of different technologies. The video demonstrates the ability to play games from work, and how players will be able to interact in a new, improved “Windows Gaming Experience” (WGX).
Although the video does not have details on how these will get implemented, if ever, it definitely opens the mind to considering new potential for the XBox Live service, which just yesterday was deemed by Zynga as “too small”. Check out the video below.
The earthquake in Japan and the flood of tsunami devastate some of the most major areas. As a warm and caring gesture for the country and its survivors, Weeworld.com and its WeeMee Avatar Creator app are offering items for sale with 100% of the proceeds going to Japan Earthquake relief. Kibou the Shibu Inu pup (sells for 500 points or $1) quickly made it into the top 10 most purchased items on WeeWorld, showing strong outpouring of support for Japan from U.S. teens.
Gaming company Gaia Online has stepped up to the bat to benefit Red Cross’ aid efforts in Japan by pledging to match up to $10,000 worth of virtual gifts
PapayaMobile has recently partnered with global non-profit One Economy to empower mobile apps that serve a public purpose.
Many of us have been wondering how long it would be before more hardcore games appeared on Facebook. At both the Flash Gaming Summit and the Game Developers Conference I had a very interesting conversations with the Unity platform developers who showed me some new games and shared a few stats regarding the Unity 3D engine and its emergence on Facebook.
In an effort to effectively monetize audiences worldwide, Zynga is partnering with MOL accessportal to sell Zynga Game Cards in six asian countries including India.
EA announced today that their “EA Partners” group will be offering publishing services to independent social and mobile game developers. In a nutshell, small devs will now be able to sign up with EA and access their marketing and development resources.
