Facebook Has It All Wrong When It Comes To Social Games Only five of the top 100 Facebook applications are synchronous games – enabling users to interact in real time – and, of these, only one is in the Top 25 – Zynga Poker. Every week, it seems, a new “social” game comes out with yet another take on the same asynchronous mechanics that we’ve seen a hundred times before: whether it’s plow land, choose se [..]
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Vigster - A Social Games Shelf [Vigster] Typical — you wait years for a social network for gamers, then two roll up at once. Yesterday we had Dennis Fong's Raptr but this fine evening/afternoon/morning (delete as appropriate) we shall be looking at Vigster. [..]
Report: EA acquires social games dev Playfish
Industry sources claim EA has completed a deal to acquire social games developer Playfish, report Inside Social Games and Silicon Alley Insider. Unconfirmed estimates put EA's buyout bill at $250 million, while ISG believes Playfis [..]
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Google Makes A Big Push Into Social Games (GOOG)
Google is taking a page from Facebook's early strategy and building a social gaming platform.
A LinkedIn job posting uncovered by TechCrunch this morning advertises for a Product Manager, Games.
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No More Heroes Developer Making Way More Social Games [Blip]
Grasshopper Manufacture and social network company DeNA established a new joint venture called "Grasshopper Social Network Service" that will make social games, exclusively for DeNA's Mobage smartphone platform. More »
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Track your GTA IV stats with Rockstar Games Social Club Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Online
Taking a cue from Bungie's stat-a-riffic Bungie.net service, Rockstar Games has just announced the Rockstar Games Soc [..]
"Super Whales" Are Spending Over $10,000 On Social Games Social gaming micropayment platform Social Gold gave Inside Social Games a look at how much its top customers were spending, and the results are pretty staggering.
The top five spenders on Social Gold's network have [..]
Diner Dash dev PlayFirst hit with layoffs after social games fail
PlayFirst, developer of mobile and social games like Diner Dash and Chocolatier, is going through a period of "restructuring." According to Gamasutra, this includes an unspecified number of layoffs at the studio, which had o [..]