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Zynga’s FrontierVille skyrockets to 20 million users in 36 days

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 15, 2010
2 min

Social game publisher Zynga said today that its Wild West pioneer-themed game FrontierVille has soared to more than 20 million users since it was...

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Tiger Woods golf video game sales plummet compared to a year ago

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 15, 2010
1 min

Sales of Tiger Woods PGA Tour video games plummeted this year, with the game selling only 32 percent of the total that it sold...

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U.S. retail video game sales fall 6 percent in June despite new Xbox 360 hardware

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 15, 2010
3 min

U.S. video game sales fell 6 percent overall in June despite strong sales of Microsoft’s slimmer Xbox 360 video game console, according to market...

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Zynga’s FarmVille social game partners with real-world farm to offer in-game crops

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 15, 2010
1 min

Zynga’s FarmVille has more than 62 million monthly users on Facebook. And that has made it a magnet for marketing deals. The company announced...

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Flurry formally launches AppCircle to cross-sell mobile apps

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 15, 2010
2 min

Flurry said today it is formally launching its AppCircle network for cross-selling mobile apps. Flurry operates a mobile analytics, money-making and promotion service for...

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Free-to-play business model starting to generate a “geiser of money” for iPhone game makers

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 15, 2010
4 min

Purchase of virtual goods are starting to take off on the iPhone and game startups are starting to prosper from the added revenue, according...

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What exactly defines a game

Posted byby GamesBeat
July 15, 2010
1 min

The gaming industry. A wild west full of controversy, evil publishing corporations, press, PR, small indie developers, and of course the little people who...