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Social gaming company Playdom has acquired Facebook game developer Offbeat Creations. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Offbeat Creations has developed several popular apps on Facebook including Super Farkle. The acquisition will obviously boost Playdoms presence on Facebook. The gaming company has largely been known as dominant on social network MySpace. Playdom’s lineup [...]
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MySpace co-founder Chris DeWolfe, who left the social-networking company in 2009, is part of a group buying MindJolt, a Facebook online game provider, just like the immense popular Zapapa. DeWolfe, along with former MySpace executives Colin Digiaro and Aber Whitcomb, made the acquisition with Austin Ventures, San Francisco-based MindJolt said today in a statement. MindJolt provides access to 1,300 [...]
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Today independent app store PocketGear announced the acquisition of Handango. The new combination will be a provider of smartphone applications globally for the BlackBerry, Palm, Windows Mobile, Symbian OS, and Linux platforms, with over 140,000 applications in their library from more than 32,000 developers.
According to PocketGear’s CEO Jud Bowman: “Our vision is to facilitate an [...]
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iPhone game publisher Ngmoco has bought developer Freeverse and announced that it has raised a further $25 million in funding bringing its total – after three rounds – to over $40 million. The move is being seen as a further attempt by San Francisco based Ngmoco to create a leadership role in iPhone publishing, with an [...]
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Sure, everybody is familiar with the Xbox, PS3 and Wii. But did you know that more than 140 game consoles have been produced since Magnafox launched the Odyssey in 1972? For a complete overview visit http://consollection.de/. I played my first game on the Atari VCS 2600 (http://consollection.de/consoles/VCS-2600/).
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Mochi Media, a Flash game advertising network and payments platform funded by Accel Partners and Shasta Ventures, has been acquired by Shanda Games for $60 million in cash and $20 million in equity.
Shanda is China’s largest operator of online games, with approximately 10 million active accounts. The company operates so-called MMORPGs, or massively multi-player online [...]
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TechCrunch heeft recentelijk de “TechCrunch Europe Top 100″ gepubliceerd. Dit is de lijst met de 100 meest innovatieve en veelbelovende tech-bedrijven in Europa. Opvallens is dat 4 bedrijven in de top 10 actief zijn in de online gaming industie: Miniclip, King, Playfish en StarDoll.
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De ontwikkelingsstudio id Software, bekend van de iconische games Doom, Quake en Wolfenstein wordt overgenomen door de eigenaar van Bethesda Softworks, genaamd Zenimax Media.
Voor toekomstige games van id Software betekent dit dat deze zullen worden uitgegeven door Bethesda Softworks, o.a. bekend van Fallout 3. Oprichter John Carmack zal de leiding behouden over id Software.
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Van alle applicaties die voor de iPhone te downloaden zijn in de App Store, gaat het in 20 procent van de gevallen om videogames. Al meer dan 13.000 games zijn er beschikbaar.
Van die 13.000 games zijn er 77,4 procent betaald en 22,6 procent gratis te downloaden. Als gekeken wordt naar de genres waar de games [...]
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Ooit was hij minister voor de PvdA, maar tegenwoordig is Willem Vermeend helemaal gegrepen door het kapitalisme. Hij speelt op de beurs en investeert op grote schaal in gamebedrijven. Dat blijkt uit een melding van de AFM. Vermeend blijkt grote belangen te hebben opgebouwd in de bedrijven Games Factory Online en Game Entertainment Europe.
Vermeend heeft [...]
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