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Investors pour $161 million into 16 virtual worlds in second quarter

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 9, 2008
1 min

Google blessed the virtual world market with its own entry yesterday. But it is hardly alone. Investors poured $161 million in 16 virtual world...

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WorldWinner’s CATCH 21 online game becomes a TV show

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 9, 2008
2 min

The borders between media are porous. WorldWinner, an online skill-based game company, proved that today when it announced that its “CATCH 21” game will...

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GCube Ventures to invest in game companies at all stages

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 8, 2008
3 min

The $50 billion video game industry is rife with opportunities, so it only makes sense that someone is creating a venture capital firm that...

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Can Scrabble fight Scrabulous on Facebook?

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 7, 2008
2 min

Electronic Arts has taken many months to get its official Hasbro-licensed version of Scrabble onto the Web at Pogo.com and Facebook, but it’s launching...

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Electronic Arts expands its casual game line-up

Posted byby GamesBeat
July 2, 2008
4 min

Electronic Arts is going after the casual consumer on multiple fronts. It offers Pogo.com online and EA Mobile for cell phone users (which will...

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8D World raises a round for secret online fantasy world

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 2, 2008
1 min

Gaming startup 8D World, which is currently operating in stealth mode, has raised a first round of funding to create a new virtual world...

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Indian outsourcing firm Quattro and D.E. Shaw buy game-outsourcing firm Babel

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 2, 2008
2 min

Indian outsourcing firm Quattro and investment firm D.E. Shaw Group have bought a majority stake in the video game outsourcing firm Babel. The purchase...

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New MMO games startup, Meteor Games, to target youth demographic

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 1, 2008
2 min

A new independent game development studio, Meteor Games, launched today with Adam Powell and Donna Williams at the helm — the two entrepreneurs who...

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Gaia Online tees up its massively multiplayer online game

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 1, 2008
3 min

Gaia Online has built one of the biggest online hangouts for teens over the past five years. Think of it as an online shopping...

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EA star leaves to start iPhone games company, Ngmoco

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
June 30, 2008
3 min

The iPhone’s remaking of the cell phone business is creating opportunities for new start-ups, particularly in the game field. That’s why one of the...