FooPets Joins The Ultimate Game Card

By On February 11, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Today PlaySpan announced that the popular social virtual pet game FooPets would be joining the family games accepting payment through the Ultimate Game Card. FooPets serves a community of roughly five million users who can access the game through Facebook, MySpace, or Korea's Cyworld social networks. It is one of the few social applications that [...]

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News Brief: FooPets Joins The Ultimate Game Card

By On February 10, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Today PlaySpan announced that the popular social virtual pet game FooPets would be joining the family games accepting payment through the Ultimate Game Card. FooPets serves a community of roughly five million users who can access the game through Facebook, MySpace, or Korea's Cyworld social networks. It is one of the few social applications that [...]

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FooPets Expands To Asian Market

By On August 26, 2009 · 1 Comment

Today FooMojo, Inc., announced that it would be expanding operation of its popular FooPets virtual pet social game into two Chinese social networks. FooPets will be available in China on the RenRen and Kaixin social networks operated by Oak Pacific International (OPI), with new users encouraged to pick a FooPet to add to their profile [...]

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Is Valentine’s Day The Most Important Virtual Gifting Day Of The Year?

By On February 11, 2009 · 1 Comment

With Valentine's Day approaching this Saturday, more platforms than just WeeWorld are preparing to launch virtual gifting services. Today Avalanche, owner and operator of the social dating sites Matchmaker, Date, and Amor, announced the addition of a virtual gifting service across all three platforms.  FooPets has also announced the FooGift service in its popular virtual [...]

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FooPets Revamps Realism for User Demand

By On December 30, 2008 · 2 Comments

Just before the holidays, FooMojo rolled out of stealth mode, changing its Facebook app Pokey into FooPets. With the change came greater realism, more options, and the ability for users to take their pets out of Facebook and on to the Web and beyond. Judging from comments, reviews on the Pokey app, and user communities, [...]

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Who’s New to Virtual Worlds – December 19, 2008, Wrap Up

By On December 19, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Bandai-Namco has launched a Tekken / Soul Calibur Lounge in the Japanese version Home for the PlayStation 3. More info. C/O Berlin has opened a gallery of its exhibitions in mirror world Twinity. More info in the PDF. Singaporean department store Tangs is opening a space in Second Life. More info. The Rochester Institute of [...]

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FooPets Stocking Up On Branded Goods; Considering Open Market

By On December 17, 2008 · Leave a Comment

FooPets, which launched today as a new, realistic virtual pets service, is monetizing primarily on virtual goods sales. It's already drawing attention from major brands in the $41 billion/year U.S. market for pet goods. In addition to a partnership with Twentieth-Century Fox to promote "Marley & Me," FooPets will feature Purina Dog Chow as the [...]

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FooPets Stocking Up On Branded Goods; Considering Open Market

By On December 17, 2008 · 5 Comments

FooPets, which launched today as a new, realistic virtual pets service, is monetizing primarily on virtual goods sales. It's already drawing attention from major brands in the $41 billion/year U.S. market for pet goods. In addition to a partnership with Twentieth-Century Fox to promote "Marley & Me," FooPets will feature Purina Dog Chow as the [...]

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FooMojo Closes $9.9 Million in Series A

By On December 17, 2008 · Leave a Comment

FooMojo announced today that it had closed a $9.9 million Series A round led by SoftBank Capital and SoftBank Corp. The company, which exited stealth mode today, creates realistic virtual pets for social networks, the Web, and the iPhone. It's also currently developing a virtual world for users to mingle with their pets. With a [...]

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FooPets Launches Realistic Virtual Pets, World on the Way

By On December 17, 2008 · 42 Comments

FooMojo announced today the launch of FooPets, a realistic virtual pet that brings the company out of almost a year in stealth mode. That time hasn't been slow, though. Under the name Bonehead Labs, the company released Pokey! to Facebook in February and grew at over 60,000 users per day at its peak to reach, [...]

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