Kongregate Partners With Adobe For Android Ports

By On May 21, 2010 · Leave a Comment

The iPhone doesn't support Flash, but the upcoming Android 2.2 OS does. In light of this, the social gaming portal Kongregate has announced a partnership with Adobe that would port its entire library of Flash casual, social, and MMO games to Flash Player 10.1, which will be playable on Android 2.2 platforms. As part of [...]

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Scoreloop Signs 300,000 New Android Users Daily

By On May 21, 2010 · Leave a Comment

This week the mobile social gaming network Scoreloop announced that it was signing up over 300,000 new users per day on the Android platform. This may largely be due to Scoreloop being the only such network offered for Android gaming, but is also driven by Android's amazing growth spurt during Q1 2010.  Tweet

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PayPal Now Available For In-App Android Payments

By On May 20, 2010 · Leave a Comment

While the iPhone has integrated OS support for in-app transactions, to date Android has not been able to offer any equivalent services for developers of freemium games. Developers who want to sell virtual goods or other microtransactions have had to build or integrate their own payment systems. PayPal is about to change this.  Today PayPal [...]

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Hudson Soft Partners With Open Feint

By On May 19, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Today the Japanese game developer Hudson Soft announced that it would add support for the Open Feint social gaming network to all of its iPhone titles. As part of the partnership, Hudson Soft will add five games to Open Feint's "Free Game of the Day" promotion. The five games will be World RPS, Shooting Watch, [...]

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Linden’s Judy Wade Heads To Hands-On Mobile

By On May 17, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Today the mobile gaming firm Hands-On Mobile announced that Judy Wade would be joining the company as President and CEO, effective immediately. Wade will be tasked with strategically growing Hands-On's presence as a developer of both mobile and social network games. Wade comes to Hands-On from Second Life parent Linden Lab, where she served as [...]

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Ngmoco Acquires Touch Pets Developer, Stumptown Game Machine

By On May 13, 2010 · Leave a Comment

This week ngmoco announced that it had acquired Touch Pets Dogs co-developer Stumptown Game Machine for an undisclosed sum. Touch Pets Dogs has gone on to garner five million downloads as a free app since its release for iPhone in November 2009. Stumptown will retain its own name, brand, and base of operations in Portland, [...]

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Sibblingz Launches Multi-Device Social Game Engine

By On May 12, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Today YouWeb announced the official launch of its Sibblingz cross-platform social game development engine. Sibblingz was announced and entered private beta in December of last year. Since then another YouWeb subsidiary, CrowdStar, used the Sibblingz platform to construct its Happy Island social game, which serves over 12 million monthly active users. Through Sibblingz, users can [...]

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Sibblingz Launches Multi-Device Social Game Engine

By On May 12, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Today YouWeb announced the official launch of its Sibblingz cross-platform social game development engine. Sibblingz was announced and entered private beta in December of last year. Since then another YouWeb subsidiary, CrowdStar, used the Sibblingz platform to construct its Happy Island social game, which serves over 12 million monthly active users. Through Sibblingz, users can [...]

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DeNA Reports Record 2009 Revenue

By On April 30, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Today the Japanese social game developer DeNA announced that it had earned $517 million in revenue in 2009, a record high. The company earned $205 million in Q4 alone, an 81% year-over-year increase and a new record for single-quarter earnings.  The company expects its record growth to continue, too. DeNA is projecting Q1 2010 earnings [...]

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Moblyng Partners With Playdom, Raises $2.65M

By On April 30, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Today the social game developer Playdom announced that it would partner with Moblyng to release versions of its top games Mobsters, Sorority Life, and Social City for Android and Palm's webOS. The Android version of Mobsters is currently available. Moblyng also announced that it had raised another $2.65 million from existing investors Mohr Davidow Ventures and [...]

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