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Asian virtual goods market is seven times bigger than U.S.

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 30, 2009
2 min

The virtual goods industry in Asia is generating about $7 billion a year in revenue, about seven times the number in the U.S. The...

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Virtual goods, real money — our video of day one of Virtual Goods Summit

Posted byby GamesBeat
October 30, 2009
1 min

Here’s our video of the first day of the Virtual Goods Summit in San Francisco. Virtual goods in games and social apps have taken...

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China’s growing addiction: online farming games

Posted byby GamesBeat
October 30, 2009
3 min

Social farm games now dominate all major Chinese social networking sites--RenRen, Kaixin001, 51.com and QQ's massive QZone. Happy Farm, the first and largest social farm game, now exceeds 23 million daily active users. Including QQ Farm's rumored 100 million total users, China may already be the largest market for social farm games in the world.

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Miami Shark: Live Large as a Water-Breathing Death Tube

Posted byby GamesBeat
October 30, 2009
1 min

Not many games tackle the touchy subject of people eating — this is one of them. No, it’s not the newest cannibal game. This...

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Aurora Feint raises funding from big Japanese mobile portal operator

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 29, 2009
2 min

Aurora Feint, which makes iPhone games more social and easily discovered, has raised a multimillion-dollar round of funding from DeNA, the largest Japanese operator...