Today the payment services provider Social Gold announced that it would partner with the white label social app developer LOLapps to power payments in apps that feature premium virtual gifts and virtual goods. LOLapps serves a community of over 40 million monthly active users, distributed across both user-created apps created with their white label tools [...]
Today market research firm Niko Partners issued a new report on the state of online gaming in China, predicting that current Chinese online game revenues will triple to $9.2 billion by the year 2014. The majority of Chinese online gaming revenue is generated through sales of virtual goods to players in freemium games. The 2009 [...]
Social game developer and publisher Playdom has acquired Three Melons, an Argentinian online game developer. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed. In additions to numerous casual games, Three Melons has been working onBola, an online soccer game with over 145,000 daily active Facebook users, and a Unity-based casual MMO . A year ago it picked up [...]
Hangout Industries, the company behind Facebook game Fashion City, has raised $2 million in equity from its existing backers. It has previously raised $6 million from Highland Capital Partners and Polaris Venture Partners in March 2007 and another $4 million last June. dtsv.dtse_post_509_permalink = ‘http://www.engagedigital.com/blog/2010/03/31/hangout-industries-gets-2m-looking-for-3m-more/’; dtsv.dtse_post_509_title = ‘Hangout Industries Gets $2M, Looking For $3M More’;
Social game developer and publisher Playdom has acquired Three Melons, an Argentinian online game developer. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed. In additions to numerous casual games, Three Melons has been working on Bola, an online soccer game with over 145,000 daily active Facebook users, and a Unity-based casual MMO . A year [...]
Social game developer and publisher Playdom has acquired Three Melons, an Argentinian online game developer. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed. In additions to numerous casual games, Three Melons has been working on Bola, an online soccer game with over 145,000 daily active Facebook users, and a Unity-based casual MMO . A year [...]
Hangout Industries, the company behind Facebook game Fashion City, has raised $2 million in equity from its existing backers. It has previously raised $6 million from Highland Capital Partners and Polaris Venture Partners in March 2007 and another $4 million last June. dtsv.dtse_post_2263_permalink = ‘http://www.engagedigital.com/blog/2010/03/31/hangout-industries-gets-2m-looking-for-3m-more-2/’; dtsv.dtse_post_2263_title = ‘Hangout Industries Gets $2M, Looking For $3M More’;
Today Linden Lab is officially announcing four updates to Second Life aimed at making the "first hour" experience more appealing for new, mainstream users. Among the additions are the previously discussed Viewer 2, which, among other things, simplifies the user experience, and Shared Media, which allows users to integrate more traditional Web content into Second [...]
Today Linden Lab is officially announcing four updates to Second Life aimed at making the "first hour" experience more appealing for new, mainstream users. Among the additions are the previously discussed Viewer 2, which, among other things, simplifies the user experience, and Shared Media, which allows users to integrate more traditional Web content into Second [...]
Today the mobile social gaming platform Scoreloop announced the launch of a new set of monetization tools for its Scoreloop SDK. The new tools will allow every Scoreloop game to feature its own in-game virtual currency and give developers the technology to quickly build virtual goods storefronts inside their apps. Scoreloop CEO Marc Gumpinger says [...]
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