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Updated: Facebook to share ad revenue with Zynga, SEC filing reveals

Posted byby GamesBeat
July 19, 2011
3 min

[Updated: Facebook has made a statement about the filing.] Social games maker Zynga it has a revenue-sharing agreement with Facebook. The agreement, disclosed in...

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Review: Shadows of the Damned — Video Gaming’s First Supergroup?

Posted byby GamesBeat
July 19, 2011
5 min

Supergroups sound like a great idea on paper: take established artists, clump them together in one band and let them collaborate without interference. However, the same reasons that make the supergroup concept so exciting are often their undoing.

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Live Gamer acquires Brandport and GamerDNA as it moves into games ads

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 19, 2011
2 min

Live Gamer, a game e-commerce infrastructure firm, has acquired Brandport and GamerDNA as part of a move into the game advertising business. With these...

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Here are Zynga’s minority investors: Google, Peter Thiel, Softbank and others

Posted byby GamesBeat
July 19, 2011
2 min

Social game maker Zynga has outed its minority investors, which stand to make some serious cash off the company’s upcoming $1 billion initial public...

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The trouble with Tomb Raider

Posted byby GamesBeat
July 19, 2011
5 min

I got some push-back for including Crystal Dynamics' 2012 Tomb Raider demo in a post about E3 marketing misses and mistakes. Some readers/viewers see and hear...

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Is Amazon going to challenge Zynga in social games?

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 18, 2011
1 min

Amazon.com‘s recent hire of a veteran games designer suggests the massive retailer may be about to get into the business of publishing games itself....

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Paymentwall’s in-game payment options gain a good following

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 18, 2011
2 min

Paymentwall said today that more than 1,000 developers have adopted its alternative payment methods for virtual goods in social games, including special ads known...