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 [...]