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Will they laugh this time? Shervin Pishevar predicts social mobile games to dwarf Facebook games

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
December 17, 2011
2 min

As the founder of Social Gaming Network, Shervin Pishevar squared off against Zynga in the early days of social gaming. But Pishevar veered off...

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Japanese firms battle for mobile social game supremacy

Posted byby GamesBeat
November 16, 2011
5 min

The Japanese are coming. In the wide open field of mobile social gaming, two large-scale Japanese companies, both of which have made major acquisitions...

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For PapayaMobile’s social games, the women are the “whales” (exclusive)

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
September 29, 2011
2 min

As is customary in games, PapayaMobile depends heavily on the tiny proportion of users who pay for goods in social mobile games. But one...

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CrowdStar and YouWeb launch $10M fund to invest in mobile developers

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 15, 2011
2 min

CrowdStar and YouWeb have launched a $10 million fund to invest in mobile social game developers. The fund is an acknowledgement that game maker...

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Hardcore iPhone game Infinity Blade lands on DeNA’s social gaming network

Posted byby GamesBeat
June 22, 2011
2 min

Japanese mobile games portal DeNA announced today it’s bringing the popular iPhone game Infinity Blade, one of the first mobile games geared toward hardcore gamers, to...