Joymax Acquires IO Entertainment

By On March 24, 2011 · 1 Comment

Korean MMO developer Joymax has acquired rival developer IO Entertainment, creator of MMOs including Lost Saga and Survival Project. This acquisition comes roughly a month after Joymax’s merger with WeMade, creator of the Legend of Mir MMO series. IO Entertainment was founded in 2001 and specializes in games with action-oriented gameplay. IO’s Lost Saga is [...]

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Nearly $1B Revenue For Tencent In Q4 2010

By On March 17, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Chinese Internet and gaming firm Tencent has reported $834.1 million in revenue for Q4 2010, up 50% year-over-year. Tencent’s generated just over $1 billion in revenue in the entirety of 2008. Tencent chalks its current revenue growth up to strong performance of online games including the new MMO Qi Xiong Zheng Ba, the older MMOFPS [...]

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Alan Miller Joins GameAnalytics

By On February 16, 2011 · Leave a Comment

GameAnalytics has announced that Activision co-founder Alan Miller has joined the company as strategic advisor and Director of North American Operations. Miller is one of the industry’s most experienced executives, with more than 30 years of experience in developing, marketing, and distributing video games. GameAnalytics offers a turnkey data mining platform that developers can use [...]

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Nexon America Revenue Up 42% For Q4 2010

By On January 28, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Freemium publisher Nexon America has announced financial results for Q4 2010, with revenue up 42% year-over-year. Revenue in December 2010 alone was up 60% year-over-year. Nexon American publishes free-to-play online games including Combat Arms, MapleStory, Vindictus, Dungeon Fighter Online, Mabinogi, and PopTag. Nexon America attributes much of its revenue growth in Q4 2010 to the [...]

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Aeria Games Launches Special Force In Spanish, Portuguese

By On January 25, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Aeria Games has announced that it will launch Spanish and Portuguese versions of its free-to-play MMOFPS Special Force when the game enters its second round of closed beta testing on January 26. Special Force is a game that lets players equip their characters with real-world weapons that have realistic in-game statistics. Aeria Games plans to [...]

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Aeria Games Announces Metal Assault

By On January 20, 2011 · 2 Comments

Aeria Games has announced the latest addition to its portfolio of freemium MMOs, a 2D side-scrolling shooting game from GNI Soft called Metal Assault. The game is slated to enter closed beta this spring. Players can now begin signing up for the closed beta at this site. Players who are accepted into the closed beta [...]

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GamesCampus Partners With Cherry Credits

By On January 3, 2011 · Leave a Comment

GamesCampus has announced a deal with Cherry Credits that would make Cherry Credits’s prepaid Scratch Cards a cash-based alternative payment method for GamesCampus’s users. The Cherry Credits Scratch Cards will be usable in games including Shot Online, MLB Dugout Heroes, Asda Story, Legend of Edda, and Heroes In The Sky. Cherry Credits Scratch Cards will [...]

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Nexon Partners With PlaySpan

By On December 16, 2010 · 2 Comments

Freemium MMO publisher Nexon America has integrated PlaySpan‘s UltimatePay and Monetization-as-a-Service platform as a new way for its users to pay for its cash-based virtual currency, Nexon Cash. The new deal will provide Nexon with comprehensive credit card processing and fraud risk management services.  UltimatePay will provide Nexon users with over 90 different global payment [...]

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Tencent To Publish Crytek’s Warface In China

By On December 14, 2010 · 1 Comment

Gaming firm Tencent has licensed the Chinese publishing rights to Crytek‘s upcoming freemium online FPS Warface, which is being co-developed by Crytek Seoul as an original IP targeted primarily at gamers in Asian markets. Crytek has not yet announced any plans to launch the title in North America or Europe. Warface is a military FPS [...]

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Crisp Thinking Turns 5

By On December 6, 2010 · Leave a Comment

NetModerator publisher Crisp Thinking is celebrating its fifth anniversary in business. Through its various partners, Crisp Thinking protects over 380 million users worldwide with its moderation software. Crisp’s Community Management Platform is based on a unique set of user profiling and conversation analysis technologies. Crisp’s platform is used by some of the world’s largest MMOs, [...]

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