ourWorld Integrated Into Tagged.com

By On March 1, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Tagged.com has partnered with FlowPlay to integrate the latter's virtual world,ourWorld, with its social network. Tagged boasts 16 million monthly active users (35% in the U.S.), but only 28% of those are under 24 years old. That's interesting because not only can Tagged expose ourWorld to millions of new eyes, it will also expose the virtual world to [...]

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ourWorld Integrated Into Tagged.com

By On March 1, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Tagged.com has partnered with FlowPlay to integrate the latter's virtual world, ourWorld, with its social network. Tagged boasts 16 million monthly active users (35% in the U.S.), but only 28% of those are under 24 years old. That's interesting because not only can Tagged expose ourWorld to millions of new eyes, it will also expose [...]

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Popcap Hires New CFO

By On August 17, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Casual game developer Popcap, the company behind popular casual titles including Zuma and Bejeweled, today said it had hired Robert Chamberlain as its new Chief Financial Officer. The privately held game operator hinted at taking itself public by identifying Chamberlain's previous  roles with F5 Networks, Onyx Software, Watchguard Technologies and other companies as resulting in [...]

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FlowPlay To Integrate PopCap Games And Goods Into OurWorld

By On June 2, 2009 · Leave a Comment

FlowPlay has announced an interesting partnership with PopCap Games that sees the launch of a PopCap Arcade and Bejeweled Jewelry Store in its 1.7 million user ourWorld.com virtual world. The PopCap Arcade lets ourWorld.com users play selections from PopCap's popular casual game offerings in a unique way, since FlowPlay intends to monetize the PopCap Arcade [...]

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GamersFirst Adds OurWorld to Lineup

By On June 2, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Free-to-play game hub GamersFirst will now serve as an entry point for the avatar-based casual game/virtual world from FlowPlay, OurWorld. The deal builds out the game suite from GamersFirst, the game portal owned by Korea-based K2 Network. FlowPlay says it will look to K2 for counsel in the areas of monetization and customer retention. "OurWorld [...]

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FlowPlay Platform To Provide Virtual World For FanHub, More On The Way

By On May 14, 2009 · 1 Comment

TheFanHub.com  is a crowd-sourced fansite funded by game designer David Perry. It brings together content about movies, games, comics, television, and more in a social setting where users can network, post, and chat.  Soon it will also have a virtual world built on the FlowPlay platform. Tweet

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FlowPlay Raises $1 Million, Licensing Tech To Others

By On April 22, 2009 · Leave a Comment

FlowPlay, the creator of tween and young teen virtual world OurWorld, has raised $1 million. That's enough to carry the company over into profitability CEO Derrick Morton told TechFlash.  OurWorld, launched just over a year ago, mixes casual games with a larger narrative and social environment. FlowPlay previously raised $500,000 in angel funding and a [...]

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FlowPlay Raises $1 Million, Licensing Tech To Others

By On April 22, 2009 · Leave a Comment

FlowPlay, the creator of tween and young teen virtual world OurWorld, has raised $1 million. That's enough to carry the company over into profitability CEO Derrick Morton told TechFlash.  OurWorld, launched just over a year ago, mixes casual games with a larger narrative and social environment. FlowPlay previously raised $500,000 in angel funding and a [...]

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FlowPlay Distributing Casual Games Through Miniclip

By On February 10, 2009 · 1 Comment

FlowPlay, the developer of OurWorld, is announcing today that it has signed a long-term agreement to distribute its casual games through Miniclip. It's an interesting choice considering OurWorld is a browser-based virtual world centered around casual games, which the company previously described as "Miniclip meets Second Life" and boasted of having longer play sessions in [...]

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