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Offerpal launches SocialKast to recruit social game fans on any site

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 20, 2010
1 min

Offerpal Media got stung last week when it was told it wouldn’t be providing special ad offers for Facebook’s new Facebook Credits virtual currency...

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New iPhone Game Teaches You How to Bartend

Posted byby GamesBeat
July 20, 2010
3 min

Editor's note: I thought about retitling this one as New Game Promises to Rot Brain, Liver, but then I chickened out. -Demian Nimble Strong:...

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Arkadium partners up with GSN as it pushes further into games on Facebook

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 20, 2010
2 min

There’s a big pot of gold awaiting casual game publishers who properly adapt their games to Facebook. Online casual game maker Arkadium is making...

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Big Fish Games hits 1 billion downloads of its casual games

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 19, 2010
1 min

Big Fish Games said today its users have downloaded more than 1 billion copies of its casual games from its web portal. That’s a...

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MindJolt’s DeWolfe explains plans for a rollup in social games

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 19, 2010
3 min

Chris DeWolfe is the man who founded MySpace and made it a social networking sensation, beating out Friendster and becoming the biggest social network...

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Sony’s alliance with Codename to generate new games for Sony Home virtual world

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 19, 2010
2 min

Sony is announcing a deal with indie video-game label Codename to bring a series of independently developed social video games to the Sony Home...

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Live Gamer signs up THQ as big game publishers embrace virtual goods

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 19, 2010
2 min

Virtual goods company Live Gamer is announcing today that video game publisher THQ will use its virtual goods and micro-transaction platform for free-to-play online...