gWallet has partnered with Old Navy for a $15,000 contest that challenges developers to make mock-ups that creatively integrate the Old Navy brand into a social network, game, or virtual world in original and effective ways. The contest begins in early February and will give competing developers ten days to complete their mock-ups. gWallet and [...]
Platform developer BringIt has partnered with CrowdStar to create a skill-based puzzle game called Pop Boom. Users will be able to play Pop Boom as a freestanding app or as a mini-game integrated into CrowdStar’s Happy Aquarium. Pop Boom will be integrated into other games by the end of the month. Pop Boom integrates BringIt’s [...]
YouWeb‘s Peter Relan is taking over as CEO of CrowdStar, according to VentureBeat. Former CEO Niren Hiro is stepping down after less than a year, but will advise Relan and continue to do angel investments in the future. Hiro is stepping down to an unspecified disagreement with Relan regarding the future of the company. Hiro [...]
Crowdstar has launched its Happy Island social game on Bing, with a new mini-game included. The Bing version was made possible through the Sibblingz multiplatform social game engine. Crowdstar says this launch makes Happy Island the first social game that’s fully playable inside a search browser. Users can opt to link their Bing Happy Island [...]
Social game developer CrowdStar is partnering with Microsoft to bring social games to Microsoft’s Web platforms. CrowdStar’s games will be featured as part of Microsoft’s Bing Games and then roll out to other Microsoft platforms, like Windows Live Messenger and MSN Games, which Microsoft plans to revamp. CrowdStar’s games on Bing Games will be able [...]
Rock band Bon Jovi is partnering with CrowdStar, through interactive agency Sparkart and in partnership with Island Def Jam Music Group, to promote its upcoming album release through a line of branded virtual goods. The line will be issued in CrowdStar’s It Girl, Happy Island, and Happy Aquarium social games. Users will be able to [...]
CrowdStar announced today that it would use the Sibblingz multi-platform engine to publish its hit Facebook social game, It Girl, for Android and iOS devices. Sibblingz says its multi-device game ports reach over 10 million players across all platforms. Sibblingz has previously ported CrowdStar’s Happy Island to Android and iOS using similar methods. It Girl [...]
Customizable avatars are one of the defining features of virtual worlds and may soon become a major feature in social gaming. Zynga is introducing heavily customizable avatars into its flagship game FarmVille while CrowdStar is attributing high earnings from its new game It Girl to customizable avatars. While many social games have featured avatars before [...]
Social game developer CrowdStar announced that it has more than quadrupled its usual ARPU in its latest game, It Girl. CrowdStar says It Girl's launch is its most successful to date and that the game's already-high ARPU is steadily growing. CrowdStar credits the game's success to techniques the company learned from the Japanese social game [...]
Welcome to the Virtual Goods News Wrap-Up for the week of October 9, 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. A Bit Lucky Scores On Facebook With Its Lucky Train Game: Start-up A Bit Lucky has [...]
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