Funium has launched its new genealogy-themed Facebook game, Family Village. The game blends city-building social gameplay with a player’s real-world genealogical data provided by an integration with FamilyLink‘s We’re Related application. Through We’re Related, Family Village can access online public historical documents including including census records, newspaper articles, and marriage records. These documents are available for players [...]
EA Sports has launched World Series Superstars for Facebook, its fourth social game and the third game in the Superstars series. World Series Superstars is baseball-themed game officially licensed by MLB Advanced Media and the MLB Players Association. It was developed by EA Sports in conjunction with Playfish, EA’s wholly owned social games subsidiary. Tweet
DoubleDown has announced that its flagship DoubleDown Casino app for Facebook has passed 1 million monthly active users and 300,000 daily active users on Facebook. DoubleDown has also hired Charles Harper as its new Vice President of Business Development. Harper is credited with selling the first online in-game advertisement. Harper will help the company maintain [...]
Virtual world Gaia Online and social network Zynga are rolling out charity virtual goods to raise money for victims of the recent earthquake and subsequent tsunami that struck Japan over the weekend. Gaia Online’s virtual goods will raise money for the Red Cross. Gaia Online says that it will make the value of all charity virtual [...]
Today SEGA of America launches its first social game, SEGA PLAY! Baseball, on Facebook. The game allows users to create, customize, and manage a baseball team made up of players created by users and their friends. Users can customize their own team names, uniforms, avatars, customize player skills, and recruit players from their friends’ teams. [...]
Nexon plans to publish its oldest and most popular MMOs, MapleStory and KartRider, on the Facebook platform later this year. The Facebook versions of the games will be reimagined for the platform rather than direct ports. The Facebook version of MapleStory will be called MapleStory Adventure and will be a simplified RPG developed in Flash [...]
Media Chaperone has raised a $1 million round led by Leo Capital Holdings. Media Chaperone is the developer of the Piggyback Facebook app, which lets parents monitor a child’s activity and spending in partner virtual worlds and online games in real time. Parents can also opt to pay for a child’s virtual goods purchases through [...]
Popular online casual games site King.com has launched a Facebook application. King.com’s Facebook app will support 26 skill-based games drawn from the casual site’s catalog of over 200 and integrate a competitive tournament system, leaderboards, achievements, and virtual goods sales. King.com’s Website launched in 2003 and now draws over 27 million monthly active users and [...]
Social developer Zynga is seeking a new $250 million round of investment in a deal that would value the company at $7 to $9 billion dollars, according to the Wall Street Journal. This indicates that Zynga has roughly doubled its value in the past year. In April 2010 Zynga filed papers authorizing the issuance of [...]
Social game and app analytics firm Kontagent now tracks over 100 million Facebook users, over 500 million daily “event messages”, and over 15 billion messages per month through its Kontagent Social Event Tracking Platform. That means Kontagent has partnered with enough top social games and apps to be tracking the activity of roughly one out [...]
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