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DeNA Acquires Ngmoco
October 12, 2010
OCT. 12, 2010 • DeNA, the company behind Mobage Town mobile social game platform in Japan, acquired San Francisco Bay Area iPhone game developer Ngmoco for $400 million. The acquisition...
PlayStation Move in India
October 12, 2010
OCT. 12, 2010 • During the introduction of the PlayStation Move in India, Sony Computer Entertainment projected it would sell 350,000 consoles in the country during 2010 – split between the...
AT&T U-verse Lands on Xbox Live
October 11, 2010
OCT. 11, 2010 • AT&T's U-verse television services arrives on the Xbox 360, but only to current AT&T U-verse subscribers. Owners of an Xbox 360 console who can pick up the...
Free-to-Play Works for Lord of the Rings Online
October 7, 2010
OCT. 7, 2010 • Since being converted to a free-to-play model in the first part of September, Lord of the Rings Online doubled its revenue and created over a million...
World of Warcraft Subscribers Reach 12 Million
October 7, 2010
[caption id="attachment_12292" align="alignleft" width="375"] Three of the world’s 12 million WoW subscribers.[/caption] OCT. 7, 2010 • Blizzard Ent. likes releasing World of Warcraft subscribers statistics during the month of October...
OnLive Scraps Monthly Subscription
October 7, 2010
OCT. 7, 2010 • Faced with a burgeoning number of competing free-to-play options online, the OnLive streaming service elected to cancel it $14.95 monthly access fee. Accessing full games will...
Wii Remote Plus in November
October 6, 2010
OCT. 6, 2010 • Future SKUs of the Wii will include the new Wii Remote Plus, which combines the original Wiimote controller with the Motion Plus attachment that debuted last...
Nexon Takes Stake in BoomBang Games
October 5, 2010
[caption id="attachment_9747" align="alignleft" width="390"] BoomBang is based in Barcelona,[/caption] OCT. 5, 2010 • Nexon Co., Ltd. has invested in Spanish online game developer BoomBang Games, acquiring 32% of the latter's...