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Analysis: Game Marketing Gets Harder
September 27, 2010
SEPTEMBER 27, 2010 • Video game marketing is changing radically. A quick look at the traditional advertising vehicles such as enthusiast magazines would suggest that marketing budgets are shrinking. But...
Zynga Buys Dextrose
September 25, 2010
[caption id="attachment_9712" align="alignleft" width="390"] Dextrose has been working on its Aves Engine for browser games.[/caption] SEPT. 25, 2010 • Zynga has purchased German game engine developer Dextrose. The latter is...
1 Million Clone Wars Adventures Players
September 25, 2010
[caption id="attachment_9708" align="alignleft" width="390"] A racing mini-game in the popular Clone Wars Adventures MMO.[/caption] SEPT. 25, 2010 • Sony Online Entertainment's Clone Wars Adventures F2P Star Wars MMO has attracted...
THQ Testing Free-to-Play
September 23, 2010
[caption id="attachment_9704" align="alignleft" width="390"] THQ's Brian Farrell.[/caption] SEPT. 23, 2010 • THQ chief executive explained on an investor conference call how the publisher will be testing an adapted F2P model...
Atari GO: Free-to-Play Craze Hits Atari
September 23, 2010
SEPT. 23, 2010 • The Free-to-Play craze has now hit Atari. The publisher has launched Atari GO, which seeks to monetize its catalog across F2P networks, as well as attract...
Interview IMVU Banks On Chat
September 20, 2010
[caption id="attachment_3865" align="alignleft" width="330"] IMVU avatar features have gotten more realistic over the years.[/caption] SEPT. 20, 2010 • Somewhere between social networks and text chat is IMVU. Since 2004 the...
Netflix Streaming Popular
September 17, 2010
[caption id="attachment_9696" align="alignleft" width="390"] Many consumer are canceling their cable TV in favor of Netflix streaming.[/caption] SEPT. 17, 2010 • A survey by Credit Suisse discovered 37% of Netflix subscribers...
Realtime Worlds APB MMO Locked Down
September 15, 2010
[caption id="attachment_9692" align="alignleft" width="390"] APB has been shut down.[/caption] SEPT. 15, 2010 • Only a month after Scotland-based developer Realtime Worlds went into administration – the British form of bankruptcy...