Welcome to the Engage Digital Wrap-Up for the week of April 23, 2011. The Wrap-Up is where Engage Digital spotlights stories that we didn’t get to cover individually, but still make for interesting reading about the business of user engagement. Avatar Reality Appoints Tetris Popularizer Henk Rogers As CEO: Blue Mars Mobile developer Avatar Reality [...]
Social gaming firm MindJolt has acquired mobile social developer SGN and online game portal Hallpass Media, each for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition effectively doubles MindJolt’s headcount to 80, gives it four million new users, and adds over 1500 new games to its network. MindJolt strengthens its mobile presence through SGN, whose apps like MiniTycoon [...]
Zynga has closed the MySpace version of its Mafia Wars social game. Players of the MySpace version are being directed to Zynga’s MafiaWars.com if they wish to continue playing the game. At the time of its closure, Mafia Wars was the second most popular social game on the MySpace network with over 13 million registered [...]
Gaming-oriented social network hi5 has announced that it is now part of the comScore Media Matrix top 10 online gaming sites. According to comScore’s March 2011 report, Hi5 is the world’s sixth-largest gaming site. This means Hi5 ranks alongside other major online gaming properties like EA Online, WildTangent Media, Nickelodeon Casual Games, and Yahoo! Games. [...]
Funium has launched its new genealogy-themed Facebook game, Family Village. The game blends city-building social gameplay with a player’s real-world genealogical data provided by an integration with FamilyLink‘s We’re Related application. Through We’re Related, Family Village can access online public historical documents including including census records, newspaper articles, and marriage records. These documents are available for players [...]
Social developer Playdom is partnering with NBA Digital to launch new game NBA Dynasty, a management-style game that lets players create NBA dream teams from more than 9000 player seasons ranging from 1946 to the present. Players will be able to compete against virtual NBA stars, NBA championship teams, and their friends’ teams. NBA Dynasty [...]
DoubleDown Interactive has launched three new video poker games in its DoubleDown Casino game for Facebook. DoubleDown Casino serves over 1 million monthly active users and 300,000 daily active users. DoubleDown says it is one of the first developers to offer video poker in a casino-themed social game. Tweet
Welcome to the Engage Digital Wrap-Up for the week of April 16, 2011. The Wrap-Up is where Engage Digital spotlights stories that we didn’t get to cover individually, but still make for interesting reading about the business of user engagement. Android Snags Sprint For Direct Carrier Billing. Now Verizon’s The Only Major U.S. Carrier Left: [...]
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 [...]
Social video distributor Jun Group has issued a statement today advocating virtual currency as a leading way to drive virality for online videos, particularly brand and ad video. Jun Group calls this ad category incentivized social video and says that trading virtual currency for views helps alleviate the “shortage of premium inventory.” Videos like this [...]
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