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China’s ChangYou tries to break into U.S. market with funny online game

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 8, 2010
3 min

Chinese games companies have seen great success with free-to-play online games. But their success in the U.S. has been limited, due in no small...

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Playdom buys Metaplace, which forsook virtual worlds for social games

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 8, 2010
2 min

Fast-growing social game company Playdom has acquired Metaplace, which failed in its attempt to create a site for user-generated virtual worlds. The price of...

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Aurora Feint expands social game platform to Android market and gets Chinese investor

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 8, 2010
2 min

Aurora Feint has enjoyed great success with its OpenFeint social game platform for the iPhone, allowing developers to socialize their games with leaderboards, achievements,...

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Musings of a Gamer: Can Video Games Contain Positive Messages?

Posted byby GamesBeat
July 8, 2010
2 min

Editor's note: Mike manages to squeeze in references to Nelson Mandela's autobiography and some intriguing questions about the nature of violence in video games...

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Viacom acquires developer Social Express as MTV Networks dives into social games (exclusive)

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 8, 2010
2 min

Viacom’s MTV Networks has acquired social game developer Social Express as part of its inaugural entry into the hot social gaming market, VentureBeat has...

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Offerpal to help Yahoo’s developers make money on apps

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 7, 2010
1 min

Offerpal Media said today that it will help developers make money from the social games and apps that are distributed on Yahoo’s application platform....