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Nexon keeps growing as free-to-play games take off (video)

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 19, 2010
1 min

For the better part of a decade, Korea’s Nexon has been making online games that users can start playing for free. If they want,...

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FarmVille takes home a prize and changes an industry

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 19, 2010
1 min

Cultural change happens slowly. Unless, of course, you’re talking about the pace at which social games are sweeping through the video game industry. In...

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Guess Who: Round Fourteen

Posted byby GamesBeat
February 19, 2010
1 min

By now, y’all should know the rules for our weekly head-scratcher Guess Who. But if you don’t remember, it’s okay, because, well, I didn’t...

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Mobile game maker Moblyng closes $1M round

Posted byby GamesBeat
February 19, 2010
1 min

Moblyng began life as FlipTrack in 2007. The Redwood City, California-based startup began by porting Flash slideshows to mobile platforms, sort of like Slide....

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Zynga’s chief designer shares tips learned from social games

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 19, 2010
3 min

Zynga has become the envy of the video game industry because it has so many users for its Facebook games. So Brian Reynolds, chief...

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Despite a couple of bad moves, Activision Blizzard CEO says he runs a kindly mothership for game developers

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 18, 2010
4 min

Bobby Kotick, chief executive of Activision Blizzard, runs the biggest independent video game development company in the world. Some people have taken potshots at...