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Below is our weekly leaderboard of Facebook games with the most daily active users. This is a metric we’re looking at more closely, because it gives a better view than monthly active users of how engaging — and potentially lucrative — an application is. The more often users ...
Gaming
Facebook first broached the idea of creating its own virtual currency for third-party developers back in December of 2007. The company has slowly rolled the “Credits” product out. First it introduced the currency for buying gifts in its own gift shop last November, then a tweak here and ...
Gaming
Social developer Challenge Games is known for producing relatively deep yet uncomplicated games. Ranging from medieval politics sto satirical corporations , it has been able to make something interesting out of genres one might otherwise see as oversaturated. The same is true for an older ...
Gaming
When I started looking at the recent push by developers to bookmark or become a fan of an application , I quickly realized there was no publicly available information about the number of bookmarks and what applications were being bookmarked the most. In recent discussions about platform ...
Gaming
About a week ago we were taking our usual look at the top 20 growing apps for Facebook and came across a company whose title, Island Paradise , had made it to #5 on those charts. Falling in behind some of the top growing games of the time, including FishVille, Happy Aquarium, FarmVille, and ...
Gaming
Fresh off its up-to-$400-million purchase by Electronic Arts , Playfish is getting ready to roll out a Facebook poker game, called Poker Rivals .
Lots of people love to play poker online, and Zynga ’s Texas Hold’Em Poker has shown they’re willing to do it on Facebook without actual ...
Gaming
We haven’t covered the Russian online gaming market in much detail, so we’re interested to hear that Nival Network , a Moscow-based gaming company, is closing $5 million in funding for a new massive multiplayer online game called Prime World , to run on an online gaming portal ...
Gaming
Virtual farming games have taken over on social networks in Asia, and on Facebook around the world, but now they’ve also come to Apple’s iPhone. PlayMesh , the maker of iPhone app iMafia, has a new one out: iFarm . The simple farming simulation launched on November 20th, and has ...
Gaming
iPhone
A Facebook role-playing title by the name of Dream World is not exactly dreamy, but it has some redeeming qualities. A form of actual combat, for example — something most RPGs have on Facebook have yet to add.
The game takes place in a medieval realm where players choose from a ...
Gaming
As the largest and most aggressive social gaming company on the market today, Zynga is a great target for rumor, speculation and criticism. And so we have a few more data points on it, both internal numbers and independent reports.
Traffic – Last week, the company crossed the 200 ...
Gaming
Social games saw a lot of growth this past week on Facebook, according to AppData , with Zynga continuing to lead, CrowdStar continuing to rise, and LOLapps’ white-label role-playing games hitting the big leagues.
This Week’s Fastest Growing Games
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Gaming
The push by marketers to be “bookmarked” has been going on since the Favorites tab first showed up in web browsers. A bookmark on Facebook is the Holy Grail for an app developer: sitting in the footer of every Facebook page is the only way to be consistently “above the ...
Gaming
Boku Gets New Partners, Features, Languages - - Mobile payment provider Boku announced 12 new service partners this week: Zoosk , 6waves , Snap Interactive , Cie Studios , GameDuell , Cyberstep Communications , IGG , King.com , NHN USA , Ntreeve , Outspark , and Perfect World . Boku lets users ...
Gaming
iPhone
While a number of games have graduated from our up-and-comers list to become apps with more than 1 million users, there are quite a few more to take their places.
Top Gainers This Week – Games
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Gaming
Zynga has hit a new milestone on Facebook, and meanwhile, it has just launched a couple ways to increase its presence on the web: A stand-alone site for its hit game FarmVille and a new browser toolbar for Mafia Wars.
The San Francisco company now has more than 200 million total monthly ...
Gaming
Not to long ago, we took a look at the latest social gaming startup, Gravity Bear . Founded by Flagship Studios and Blizzard Entertainment veteran Phil Shenk, he and his team of six are looking to create social games to compete with market leaders like Zynga, Playfish, and Playdom. And, the ...
Gaming
Gravity
Can Twitter become a social gaming platform? We haven’t seen any break-out successes yet, but there are a few interesting games worth takinga closer looking at.
Ones like 140 Mafia and World of Blood have integrated themselves into the social network (though not directly, yet), not to ...
Gaming
This is a post by both Justin Smith and Charles Hudson
When we set out to write the Inside Virtual Goods: The US Virtual Goods Market 2009-2010 research report earlier this year, we wanted to gain a deeper understanding of the payments ecosystem throughout all popular virtual goods markets ...
Gaming
If there is any one Japanese, pop-culture icon that most people should be familiar with it is the cute cartoon cat, Hello Kitty. The downloadable title, Hello Kitty Online , published by Aeria Games , seems like a great fit for the franchise.
To clarify, Hello Kitty Online (HKO) is not a ...
Gaming
Hello Kitty Online
A month ago, the social distribution platform for the iPhone, OpenFeint unveiled its “ Developer Spotlight ” in which it would show off select iPhone apps making use of its service. Of the three that were shown, we decided to take a look at Finger Physics from PressOK Entertainment . With its ...
