GREE Acquires OpenFeint For $104M

By On April 22, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Japanese mobile social network GREE has acquired American smartphone mobile social gaming network OpenFeint for $104 million, as part of a process called a triangular merger. GREE says it is Japan’s leading mobile social network with over 25 million users and a market cap of over $3 billion. OpenFeint likewise says it is the largest [...]

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GoldRun And ADStruc Create AR Billboard In New York

By On April 15, 2011 · Leave a Comment

GoldRun and ADStruc have partnered with Tronic to create an interactive AR billboard in New York City. The billboard, which is near the Holland Tunnel, reads ‘Today I’m Feeling _____’. Users with GoldRun’s location-based smartphone app can view the billboard’s ‘feelings’ with their handsets. The billboard is GPS tagged, so a number of different images [...]

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MocoSpace: Social Games Are More Social

By On April 14, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Mobile social network MocoSpace has released data from a March study of its users indicating that users who play social games are three times more active overall on social networks than users who do not play social games. Social gamers typically spent three times as long on MocoSpace as non-gamers and had roughly three times [...]

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Frenzoo Announces Android, iOS Clients

By On April 11, 2011 · 1 Comment

Web-based virtual world Frenzoo has announced plans to develop clients for the Android and iOS mobile operating systems. Frenzoo is powered by the Unity engine and plans to leverage Unity’s cross-platform features to help build its initial mobile client apps as well as a Flash-based release for the upcoming Flash Player with 3D acceleration supported [...]

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Android In-App Billing Exclusive To Android Marketplace

By On April 4, 2011 · Leave a Comment

One of the features that distinguishes Android from iOS is Android’s willingness to support alternate app marketplaces like GetJar or the Amazon Appstore. Developers who choose to distribute their games through these alternative marketplaces won’t be able to integrate support for Android’s in-app billing system, which are being restricted to apps distributed through the official [...]

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OpenFeint Announces 14 More Android Titles

By On April 1, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Mobile social gaming network OpenFeint announced that it helped publish 14 new games for Android in March as part of its development partnership with The9. OpenFeint has added over 215 games to its Android network since November, for a grand total of 315 games supported. “At first, indie game developers chose iOS because it was [...]

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Tapjoy Launches Self-Publishing Program

By On March 23, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Mobile and social ad offer network Tapjoy is launching a self-publishing program. The program invites mobile developers to publish their games through Tapjoy network, leveraging Tapjoy’s features to promote their games. Tapjoy calls the arrangement self-publishing because developers retain full control of their IP and users as part of the deal.  Developers with early-stage and [...]

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Bizmey Launches Mobile Virtual Currency Monetization

By On March 18, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Start-up Bizmey has announced that it has launched a virtual currency monetization product specifically for mobile platforms. Bizmey plans to offer mobile ad offers, pay-per-install offers, and direct payment options that help customers obtain virtual currency more easily. Bizmey’s direct payments will be powered by partnerships with payment service providers including PayPal and Social Gold. [...]

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Heyzap Launches Check-In App For Mobile Games

By On March 16, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Heyzap has launched a new check-in app for mobile games for Android phones, with an iPhone version planned for future release. Heyzap says that alpha testing of the new app has generated over 250,000 mobile check-ins in over 3000 games. The app is designed to drive social discovery of mobile content by letting users check-in [...]

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Scoreloop Launches ‘Go Android’ Partnership Program

By On March 10, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Scoreloop has announced a new partnership program called Go Android, designed to help iOS developers port their games to Android handsets. Scoreloop says the program launched in early January and is designed to reinforce its position as the largest mobile social gaming network currently operating on Android devices. Scoreloop wants to be able to publish [...]

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