Earlier this month social game developer Zynga sent a Cease & Desist letter to Blingville, a rival social game on Facebook that was in beta testing. The letter claimed that the name “Blingville” violated Zynga’s trademarks and threatened the company with legal action if the game’s name was not changed. Zynga operates several major titles [...]
Developer CausePlay has launched a new social game, Hospitopia, that will donate 10% of its revenue to the Children’s Miracle Network. The Children’s Miracle Network is a charity that raises funds for about 170 children’s hospitals. Hospitopia players will have the option of selecting a particular children’s hospital to receive proceeds from their gameplay, which [...]
Nexon America has announced that developers Antic Entertainment and One2Tribe will share $1 million in funding awarded to them through the Nexon Initiative, for the development of games for Nexon’s worldwide publishing network. The Nexon Initiative is a program Nexon launched in spring of last year to identify and fund new game development projects that [...]
IMVU has issued several announcements today concerning the growth of its virtual goods catalog, the promotion of Kevin Henshaw to Vice President of Business Development, and IMVU’s selection as a Red Herring Global 100 Tech Start-up. IMVU was selected based on its performance, technology innovation, management quality, strategy and market penetration. Henshaw joined IMVU in [...]
Andreas Weidenhaupt has announced that he will step down from his current role as CEO of Frogster Online Gaming in April. The Frogster board of directors will take over his duties. Weidenhaupt will remain with Frogster Online Gaming as a consultant. Frogster Online Gaming is the publisher of the freemium online MMO Runes of Magic [...]
Activision Blizzard is cracking down on RMT in its World of Warcraft MMORPG by filing intellectual property complaints with PayPal. Users who are accepting payments through PayPal for World of Warcraft virtual currency, avatars, and virtual items have begun to receive notices that they must remove all World of Warcraft-related virtual goods or lose their [...]
Engage! and Toy Fair are pleased to provide a special speed networking session taking place in Hall E at the Javits Center on February 15 at 12pm. Don’t miss out on the hottest networking event of the year! This event brings together professionals from the toy industry with professionals from the technology industry in a [...]
Welcome to the Engage Digital Wrap-Up for the week of January 29, 2011. 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. £480m Dev Fund As Tencent Begins Mobile Raid: Tencent has started a 5 billion yuan [...]
Virtual world Woozworld today announced the hire of David Weiser as its new Chief Marketing Officer. Weiser will be responsible for user acquisition, user experience, virtual goods sales, and ad revenue. Weiser comes to Woozworld from his start-up Netrokid Communications, a marketing firm that assisted other companies in virtual world and social media development. Weiser [...]
Korean freemium MMORPG developer Webzen has acquired rival Ymir Entertainment, developer of the Metin2 freemium MMORPG. Ymir Entertainment was founded in 1999 and has created freemium MMORPGs like Inferna, Metin, and Metin2. Its most popular game by far is Metin2, which can be played in over 18 different languages and operates in Europe, China, Japan, [...]
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