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social gaming ’
We make a lot of fun of people who forsake any semblance of a life in favor of playing 'social' games on Facebook, well, alright I do but if you were honest you would admit you do ...
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NASA, despite getting a cut in funding, is still buzzing about. They launched a Facebook game titled Space Race Blastoff which is a multiplayer game. The social network continues to be a hotbed of interaction and social gaming ...
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Zynga, the massively popular social game developer, has been working on an online version of Bingo which will be available exclusively to Facebook users. What's quite funny about it all is that the senior demographic continues to ...
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Say the word Atari to just about any person who's played video games in their life and they'll instantly know what you're talking about. Atari had the first home game systems of their kind and are synonymous ...
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After making the biggest Internet stock offering since Google, online game maker Zynga debuted on the Nasdaq Global Market with an uninspiring performance as shares closed at $9.50 on Friday, down 5 percent from IPO price.
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Social gaming behemoth Zynga will officially launch their IPO on Friday and it's expected to be the biggest offering for an internet based company since Google went public in 2004.
With the success of such games as Words ...
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Reuters is reporting that Facebook's revenue for the first half of 2011 has doubled to $1.6 billion. Net income for the same period is placed at $500 million. They're a privately-held company so no one can force ...
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Best Buy and Zynga have teamed up to take the popular electronics store to Zynga's gaming masses. Under their newly formed partnership CityVille players will be able to open their very own Best Buy stores and collected ...
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Considering the success of Facebook's social gaming platform - 200 million players worth of success - one might think that Facebook is feeling just a bit threatened by the launch of Google's new social gaming platform for ...
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According to a report from tech website AllThingsD, Google is gunning for more than becoming the social networking king; they're also going after Facebook and Apple's highly lucrative social gaming market. Come on, try to act surprised.
As ...
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I'm sure I wasn't alone in hoping whatever that whole 'Bungie Aerospace' thing Bungie has been teasing for the past several months was their first game. Well, apparently it isn't. While it isn't Bungie's next title, what ...
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Addicted to Words With Friends yet?
Zynga has added a second "With Friends" title to the franchise, unleashing Hanging With Friends to a populace already experiencing delirium tremens when separated from their smartphones for more than twenty minutes. ...
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If you're like me and you haven't been swayed by the current Facebook gaming options like FarmVille, social gaming developer Zynga has something that just might get you on board with the whole social gaming fad.
In comes ...
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For a show that stopped being funny over a decade ago, The Simpsons can still turn over a buck or three. That's probably why EA will be bringing the dysfunctional family to Facebook in September.
Alas, that's virtually ...
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I don't know how much money developer Zynga has made from FarmVille, but it must be a crapload because it's somehow encouraged Lady Gaga to sign up to a Gaga/FarmVille crossover thing called GagaVille. *checks date* Nope, ...
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An interesting theory has been posited by Adweek, concerning the mostly-concurrent rise of social gaming via social networks- like FarmVille on Facebook- and the death of daytime soaps.
A few weeks ago, two long-running TV soaps were cut ...
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Self-appointed 'core' gamers might point and scoff from their high horses at Facebook gaming, but hey, publishers of 'core' game franchises plainly see social network gaming as a big chunk of their future.
Take Epic Games. Speaking to ...
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A new Facebook game called BlingVille has apparently pissed off Zynga, the company behind hits FarmVille and CityVille, because it uses the 'Ville' suffix. Zynga - like the schoolyard bully it is - is preparing to take ...
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Sorry, did someone say World of Warcraft was on the way out? Hm? It was the game's own publisher? Oh, right. D'oh.
Far from being on its last legs, expansion World of Warcraft: Cataclysm hit stores last week, ...
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In a super-lengthy interview with game developer Jonathan Blow, Gamasutra uncovers the thought process that goes into the creation of the plague of social games on Facebook like FarmVille, Mafia Wars or FrontierVille.
It turns out the ...
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Mark Pincus, head of FarmVille and Mafia Wars maker Zynga, is about to be cast as the gaming industry's latest pantomime villain. Speaking to SF Weekly, an ex-Zynga employee has revealed how Pincus told him:
"I don't fucking ...
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If you've had any doubt that GoogleMe is a serious project at Google, that should be laid to rest recently with their host of recent acquisitions that include the virtual currency firm Jambool, the app making firm ...
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