At launch EngageDigital is the combination of our 3.5 year old VirtualWorldsNews.com blog and our 2 year old VirtualGoodsNews.com blog with a bunch of fresh news stories coming. ED already contains an archive of more than 4,300 articles from VWN and VGN. Both of those blogs will cease to publish on Monday and redirect their [...]
Welcome to the Engage Digital Wrap-Up for the week of October 30, 2010. The Wrap-Up is where Engage Digital spotlights stories that we didn’t get to cover individually, but still make for interesting reading about the business of user engagement. Allods Online “More Free-To-Play Than Ever” With New Patch: Allods Online‘s latest patch gives free [...]
Runes of Magic publisher Frogster Interactive has promoted three new executives to replace the three it abruptly dismissed last month. Dominic Scheve was already Vice President of Operations and Finance at Frogster but will now also oversee human resources, legal affairs, finance, and the administration department. Daniel Ullrich will move from Product Management Director for [...]
Cooee GmbH, parent company of the Club Cooee virtual world, announced that it has received an undisclosed but “substantial” round of funding from French venture capital firms Generis Capital Partners and Innoven Partenaires along with an unnamed angel investor and existing investor Aurelia Private Equity. In addition, Club Cooee has partnered with Windows Live Messenger [...]
Mind Candy‘s Moshi Monsters virtual worlds has passed 29 million registered users across 150 countries, according to figures disclosed to TechCrunch. About 20 million of those users were acquired in the past year. Roughly 35% of all users are from the US while another 30% are from the UK. One in three UK kids between the ages [...]
British technology firm HuzuTech has announced that it will launch a white label 3D virtual world platform, HuzuVirtual, next week. The platform is for use by brands, publishers, film, and TV production houses that want to create promotional virtual worlds. The platform is designed to be flexible, scalable, and fully customizable. HuzuTech plans to initially work with [...]
Thailand has announced a new 3D browser-based virtual world, Thailand Planet, designed to show off Thailand’s technological, business, and tourism strengths. The new virtual world is part of Thailand’s current “creative economy” policy. The government hopes that Thailand Planet will improve Thailand’s global image and create new business opportunities. Thailand Planet will showcase real-world attractions, [...]
Music-themed virtual world for teens Planet Cazmo has announced a fall virtual concert season including artists Far East Movement, Shakira, and Ne-Yo. Far East Movement will perform in Planet Cazmo on October 29 at 7 PM EST. The concert will be available throughout the weekend until midnight on October 30. Shakira will perform in Planet [...]
Gaia Online has released the results of a survey issued to its users about the upcoming midterm elections. Users who completed the survey got an “I Vote” virtual item. Over 28,000 Gaia Online users responded to the survey. Roughly 86% of Gaia Online’s users are between the ages of 13 and 24. The survey found [...]
Chinese freemium MMO publisher ChangYou announced that its Q3 revenues were up 25% year-over-year and 10% quarter-over-quarter to $85.6 million, a record high for the company. Profits for the quarter were also up to an all-time high of $45.3 million, which is a 20% increase year-over-year and an 8% increase quarter-over-quarter. ChangYou expects revenues to [...]
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