Hi5 Enters comScore Media Matrix Top 10 For Gaming

By On April 20, 2011 · Leave a Comment

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. [...]

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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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3G Studios Launches The Dating Game On Social Networks

By On March 17, 2011 · Leave a Comment

3G Studios has launched its new social game based on The Dating Game on Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Hi5, Friendster, and Bebo. The game is based on the look and feel of the classic 1960s series and does not actually include any dating site components. Players choose to be a bachelor or bachelorette and must decide [...]

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SEGA PLAY! Football Launches On Hi5

By On March 10, 2011 · Leave a Comment

SEGA of America has launched SEGA PLAY! Football on the gaming-oriented social network Hi5. It should be noted that the title references the sport Americans call soccer, not American football. In SEGA PLAY! Football, players can create and manage their own football teams and compete in both global fantasy soccer tournaments and international league play. [...]

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Kontagent Tracking Over 100M Facebook Users

By On February 11, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Social game and app analytics firm Kontagent now tracks over 100 million Facebook users, over 500 million daily “event messages”, and over 15 billion messages per month through its Kontagent Social Event Tracking Platform. That means Kontagent has partnered with enough top social games and apps to be tracking the activity of roughly one out [...]

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MocoSpace Looking To Acquire MySpace

By On February 4, 2011 · 1 Comment

Mobile social network MocoSpace has approached News Corp about acquiring its troubled social network MySpace. While MySpace’s overall traffic has declined throughout 2010, the network does have a large base of mobile suers. News Corp wants to sell MySpace for $50 to $200 million dollars, while MocoSpace’s last round of funding was $6.5 million from [...]

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Spil Games On Social Games For Local Euro Social Nets

By On February 4, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Dutch casual games developer Spil Games has spent the last year entering the social game market. Spil Games has published only four small games for Facebook, but the Dutch developer’s real emphasis is on reaching the European market. That means publishing games on smaller, local social networks like Hyves in the Netherlands and VZ Netwerken [...]

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Quepasa Acquires Social Dev XtFt For $4M

By On February 1, 2011 · 2 Comments

Latino social network Quepasa has acquired Brazilian developer XtFt Games, owner of the social game developer TechFront, for $4 million dollars. The consideration will include $3.7 million in shares of Quepasa common stock and a $300,000 brokerage fee. TechFront was founded in 2006 and initially developed games for consoles, Web, and mobile. TechFront began developing [...]

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MocoSpace’s Stage Hero Racks Up 350K MAU In First Month

By On February 1, 2011 · 1 Comment

Mobile social network MocoSpace has announced that its Stage Hero social game has acquired over 350,000 monthly active users in its first month of availability. Stage Hero is MocoScape’s second social game developed completely in HTML5 and launched in December 2010. Players average 2.5 sessions per day, with an average session length of 4 minutes. [...]

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MyYearbook Launches Live Social Gaming Platform

By On January 28, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Teen social network myYearbook has launched a new social gaming platform called myYearbook Live. This platform will let myYearbook’s over 25 million registered users play multiplayer social games with each other, with the ability to select opponents based on age, gender, or location. myYearbook Live will emphasize real-time, synchronous multiplayer games with live video chat [...]

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