Vivox Doubles Userbase To 45M In 2010

By On February 16, 2011 · 1 Comment

Voice chat service Vivox announced that its user base doubled in 2010, allowing the provider to now reach over 45 million users and provide over 3 billion voice chat minutes per month. Vivox began the year serving only 18.5 million users, but rapidly increased its reach through a series of partnerships. New Vivox partners in [...]

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Prediculous Launches Social Predictions Game

By On February 10, 2011 · 1 Comment

Prediculous has launched, using Facebook Connect to turn predicting news and events into a social game. Users compete to correctly predict the outcome of current events across a variety of categories, including sports, news, politics, entertainment, and business. Prediculous initially went live in November 2010 and posts daily questions. Users compete to choose the correct [...]

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YooMee Games Launches YooMeeGames.com

By On February 8, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Social competition platform YooMee Games has launched a consumer destination site, YooMeeGames.com. Users can visit YooMeeGames.com to play games that have integrated YooMee’s tournament platform. Users can enter tournaments, challenge individuals, or play solo to try and earn high scores. YooMee rewards these achievements with Tickets, a virtual currency. Users can opt to “cash out,” [...]

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Applifier Raises $2M Seed Round, Expands To Web

By On February 2, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Facebook social game cross-promotion service Applifier announced that it has raised a $2 million round of seed funding from MHS Capital, PROfounders Capital, Tekes, Lifeline Ventures, and angel investors Jyri Engeström, David Gardner and Lars Stenfeldt Hansen. Along with the funding announcement, Applifier announced the beginning of an invite-only beta test of an expansion that would include [...]

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China To Give Parents “Kill Switch” For Online Games

By On February 1, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Beginning on March 1, 2011, China will launch the “Parents’ Guardian Project for Minors Playing Online Games,” which mandates that online game operators give parents access to special call centers and a Website that lets them monitor their child’s activity in online games. Parents must also have access to a “kill switch” that lets them [...]

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Nexon Initiative Awards $1M Funding To Antic Entertainment, One2Tribe

By On January 31, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Nexon America has announced that developers Antic Entertainment and One2Tribe will share $1 million in funding awarded to them through the Nexon Initiative, for the development of games for Nexon’s worldwide publishing network. The Nexon Initiative is a program Nexon launched in spring of last year to identify and fund new game development projects that [...]

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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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Vivox Voice Chat To Appear In Bloodline Champions

By On January 18, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Funcom has announced that its Stunlock Studios-developed freemium MMORPG, Bloodline Champions, has launched featuring Vivox integrated voice chat support. Bloodline Champions launched last week, on January 13, after a beta period that began last November. Bloodline Champions is a game that focuses exclusively on player-versus-player team battles. Players will be able to use Vivox’s voice [...]

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Artix Entertainment To Acquire New Studio

By On January 12, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Freemium online game publisher Artix Entertainment is actively seeking a new studio to acquire. Artix says that it’s interested in studios working with online Flash games, social games, iOS, Android, and HTML5. Artix’s last acquisition was a company called EpicDuel in late 2009. In the thirteen months since then, Artix says it has improved EpicDuel’s [...]

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Bigpoint Acquires Planet Moon Staffers

By On January 11, 2011 · 1 Comment

Freemium online publisher Bigpoint has hired 37 staffers from development studio Planet Moon, creator of casual games for consoles and handhelds like Smarty Pants. All of the new hires will join Bigpoint’s San Francisco studio, bringing its staff total up to nearly 100 employees. Bigpoint says the Planet Moon staffers are already integrated into the [...]

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