Welcome to the Virtual Worlds News Wrap-Up for the week of July 30, 2010. The Wrap-Up is where VWN spotlights stories that we didn't get to cover individually, but still make for interesting reading about the virtual worlds industry. Dire Wolf Creating Lego Universe Trading Card Game: The Lego Group has selected recently opened developer [...]
The Vietnam Ministry of Information and Communications is restricting public Internet access and banning online game ads, according to the Viet Nam News. The move comes as a response to complaints about increases in juvenile crime and school truancy that citizens believe are caused by letting young people get "addicted" to freemium online games. To [...]
Developer Realtime Worlds is entering the virtual worlds business with its latest project, a 3D world with social features called Project: MyWorld. This world uses map information from GIS services to create 3D renders of entire countries. Users can then edit the procedurally generated data using special in-game tools. The suggested use is to make [...]
Freemium MMO publisher Nexon America saw 26% quarter-over-quarter growth in revenue for Q2 2010, according to GamesBeat. In the same time period, US console game revenues shrank. While Nexon America did not release specific revenue numbers, it did say that revenue for the month of June alone was up 36% year-over-year. dtsv.dtse_post_220_permalink = ‘http://www.engagedigital.com/blog/2010/07/30/revenue-up-26-in-q2-for-nexon-america/’; dtsv.dtse_post_220_title [...]
Over a year after Apple's introduction of in-app transactions with iOS 3.0, only 2% of all apps on the app store support the feature according to mobile analytics company Distimo's latest monthly report. The Apple iPad supports a higher proportion of apps that support in-app transactions, about 10%. On both platforms, the Games and Social [...]
Welcome to the Virtual Goods News Wrap-Up for the week of July 30, 2010. The Wrap-Up is where VGN spotlights stories that we didn't get to cover individually, but still make for interesting reading about the virtual goods industry. DST: A Mutual Fund Of Hot Startups, With A Russian Accent: Facebook and Zynga backer DST [...]
enVie Interactive LLC is developing a new 3D virtual world called VIE or Virtual Island of Entertainment. enVie describes VIE as combining the "best features" of social networks, MMOs, and virtual worlds. VIE will launch in beta in the second half of 2010. For now, enVie has announced the executive team that will be responsible [...]
Planet Cazmo is going to partner with Fox's Teen Choice 2010 awards and entertainment mogul Tony Mottola to create a custom virtual environment called the Virtual Teen Choice Beach Party. The special virtual environment will be directly accessible from a link on the Teen Choice Website. The Teen Choice 2010 awards will air August 9 [...]
Social game dev Playdom and Harrah's Interactive Entertainment are partnering to release a new World Series of Poker game to Facebook and other social networks. The deal appears to have been negotiated before Playdom was recently acquired by Disney, since the press release refers to Playdom as "privately held." The game itself will be a [...]
Gofresh will relauch its former mobile social network itsmy.com as a mobile social game portal in August. Itsmy launched the first social games on its network roughly a year and a half ago. The company's mobile browser-based game offerings have proven so successful that now Itsmy wants to focus entirely on gaming. Itsmy is planning [...]
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