20 Percent of the U.S. Population, or 56.8 million U.S. Consumers, Reports Having Played a Game on a Social Network
PORT WASHINGTON, NEW YORK, AUGUST 23, 2010 – According to Social Network Gaming, the most recent report from leading market research company, The NPD Group, 20 percent of the U.S. population ages 6 and older reports having played a game on a social network in the past three months. This equates to 56.8 million U.S. [...]
The Walt Disney Company to Acquire Leading Social Game Developer Playdom
Burbank, California – July 27, 2010 – Advancing on its goal of bringing consumers its well-known stories, characters and brands in ever more engaging ways, The Walt Disney Company has agreed to acquire Playdom Inc., one of the leading companies in the fast-growing business of online social gaming. Playdom shareholders will receive total consideration of [...]
Making Lunch a Social Networking Game
By NICK BILTON Thursday night I had dinner in the future, and the hamburgers were shaped like doughnuts. Before I get to these strange hamburger shapes, let me explain why they were from the future: my burger was created on the Internet and broadcast to Twitter, Foursquare and Facebook, part of a multiplayer online game, [...]
How gaming became the future of social media
Gaming is already wildly popular. A recent spate of deals with Google, Disney, and Gamestop, suggest that social games have the promise to be wildly profitable, too. by Patricia Sellers and JP Mangalindan FarmVille. Mafia Wars. Pet Society. With their collective userbases numbering in the hundreds of millions, social gaming is as ubiquitous and mainstream [...]
Social Media Goes GTL With Jersey Shore Facebook Game & iPhone App
by Ron Callari – Love them or hate them, MTV is utilizing social media to promote the second season of its reality hit TV show, Jersey Shore. This week, the network is hyping the much anticipated return of the guidos and guidettes with a Facebook game and an iPhone app.
Disney Characters Future Social Media Gaming Experience
by Debbie Turner – Social gaming is probably the fastest-growing division of the video gaming industry right now and it appears that Disney is keen to get in on the act. It’s been reported that Walt Disney Co., are in talks to buy Playdom Inc., a huge name in online social games.
Social Media and PC Online Games: A Perfect Marriage with Steam?
Social media takes place in your Web browser, right? You post a Facebook pic. You Digg your friends’ stories. You tweet your day’s events. Do you ever get the urge to leave the memes, shouts, and retweets in your browser and join a PC Online Game? When you enter a PC online game via Steam, [...]
New generation of online games attracts millions
By Scott Duke Harris Facebook has grown into a Web medium that more than 350 million people use as an extension of their authentic selves, not their alter egos. Yet in recent months the world’s biggest social networking site has been invaded by make-believe farmers, chefs and tropical fish collectors. You pretenders know who you [...]
China Bans Foreign Investors from Online Games
Bad news for Chinese entrepreneurs and the international investors who want to support them: The Chinese government has “banned foreign investors from operating online games ‘in any form’ in the country,” according to state-run media. The rationale is being vaguely described as bringing games in line that were offering somehow illegal content. “The new rule [...]
#WoWLoot Twitter Sweepstakes
#WoWLoot Twitter Sweepstakes – Win In-Game Pets & Mounts! In rheir continuing celebration of World of Warcraft’s five-year anniversary, they are “giving away some fantastic prizes to a lucky selection” of those following World of Warcraft on Twitter. Staff say their “offices are brimming with spare World of Warcraft loot codes” and they feel it’s [...]