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• With Hit Social Game Happy Farm, Chinese Developer 5 Minutes Raises $3.5 Million from DFJ

  
  Inside Social Games — Authority: 569
  It’s not just western social gaming companies that are raising money these days. 5 Minutes, the China-based developer of cross-platform sensation Happy Farm , has closed a $3.5 million first round from venture firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson, according to Chinese media and sources in the country. This marks the ...
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• Another New Playdom Game Surfaces: Wild Ones, a Social Take On Worms

  
  Inside Social Games — Authority: 569
  Playdom has had a few game projects in the works; one is Tiki Farm , which Games.com discovered earlier this week. And, we just came across the alpha version of another: Wild Ones . In a nutshell, the game has players create their own personalized animal avatar and wreak havoc upon other players in an ...
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• Know-it-All Trivia

  
  Gamezebo: Casual Game Reviews, Previews, Cheats, Tips, Forums, Free Games, and More — Authority: 485
  Trivia nerds like yours truly here are usually all too eager to get a night of Trivial Pursuit or Scene It! organized at the drop of a hat. After all, what good is useless knowledge if you cant share it with friends?  Know-it-All Trivia knows this feeling all too well, and wants to help trivia geeks around ...
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• Despite User Complaints, Battlefield Heroes Reaches 3 Million Users

  
  Inside Social Games — Authority: 569
  Earlier this month, Electronic Arts’ free-to-play online shooter, Battlefield Heroes , found itself under consumer siege due to some less than popular changes to the game’s virtual goods system . However, despite the deluge of complaints and the upsurge of angry veteran players, the issue was apparently ...
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• Big Developers See New Growth on This Week’s Top 20 Emerging Facebook Games List

  
  Inside Social Games — Authority: 569
  Christmas apps stick together on this weeks emerging games list while three high-quality games from big developers take the top spots, according to AppData . This week’s emerging list shows the top 20 games that ended with between 100,000 to 1 million users on December 17, and gained the most users in the previous ...
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• So, What’s Inside the FarmVille Christmas Gifts?

  
  Unigamesity — Authority: 144
  Christmas is less than a week away and I’m sure that many of you keep wondering what’s inside the Farmville presents you’ve stacked under the Christmas Tree until now – and hopefully managed to get all 100 of them (if not, hurry to add more neighbors – maybe you can do it until the 24th).As [...]
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• Social games and Facebook in Brazil and Latin America

  
  media/anthropology — Authority: 463
  By Raquel Recuero via DMLcentral A recent post from Inside Facebook has shown that Facebook is growing fast in Latin America, and a large part of this growth is happening in Brazil (33 percent each month, according to the same set of data). Interestingly, other news pieces about research from institutes such as ...
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• New FarmVille Gifts: Whipped Cream and Caramel Bear, Evergreen Tree

  
  Unigamesity — Authority: 144
  Except for the new winter decorations released to Farmville by Zynga today, there are new gifts we can send to our friends: two cute and fun looking toy bears and an evergreen tree which is most likely a very limited edition gift.First of all, one of the gifts, the Caramel Bear is a Farmville.com exclusive [...]
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• New FarmVille Holiday Lights and Signs

  
  Unigamesity — Authority: 144
  Since Christmas is close, Zynga decided to offer us a new update this week, adding even more goodies for us to decorate our Farmville farms with. Therefore, starting today, those who are not going to look at spending quite some cash for their farms, there are a bunch of new light decorations available, as well [...]
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• Hollywood Tycoons Are Made in Canada

  
  Inside Social Games — Authority: 569
  Last week, Toronto based developer, Social Game Universe released a pair of Facebook games the social network:  Avastar , which we reviewed earlier today, and  Hollywood Tycoon . Here’s a look at the latter. Having originally been a downloadable  single player game , Hollywood Tycoon has boasted claims that ...
  2 days ago

• Kongregate Launches Konduit Application Platform

  
  Inside Social Games — Authority: 569
  Yesterday, games portal Kongregate announced the launch of the Konduit Application Platform . In the past, the site has primarily offered indie developers a means to upload their games to Kongregate, granting them some of the types of social features found on Facebook. Now, with the new platform, developers will be ...
  2 days ago

• Claw Up the Hollywood Social Ladder in Avastar

  
  Inside Social Games — Authority: 569
  We’ve recently taken a look at the latest Facebook titles from  Social Game Universe , Hollywood Tycoon and Avastar . Frankly, the former turned out to be fantastic fun despite a few virtual currency discrepancies, but it was the connection to Avastar that led us to look at the parent title with a little more ...
  2 days ago

• Zynga CEO Mark Pincus on NBC Bay Area Press:Here

  
  Games Galore — Authority: 123
  Zynga CEO Mark Pincus on NBC Bay Area Press:Here .
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• Christmas Facebook Games Finally in Our Top 20 Gaining Daily Active Users List

  
  Inside Social Games — Authority: 569
  Christmas games finally make a solid showing as holiday fever hits Facebook in this week’s top 20 gaining games list for daily active users. Before Christmas, it’s PetVille which is still the strongest growing daily game on Facebook. The game has 3.5 million daily active users as of this morning, up 8 percent ...
  2 days ago

• Zynga and DST talk about their big funding deal in social games

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 158
  Bookmark this categoryMark Pincus is at the center of the social gaming explosion. The chief executive of Zynga has the most popular games on Facebook, and he just raised $180 million from Russian investor Digital Sky Technologies. Since early 2007, Zynga has ridden Facebook’s success and created the most popular ...
  3 days ago

• As Facebook Prepares Credits Rollout, Here’s a Look at the Virtual Currency in Social Games

  
  Inside Social Games — Authority: 569
  Will Facebook users feel more comfortable trusting their credit card information with the company instead of social game developers and other payment providers when they go to buy virtual goods? If the answer is yes, we may see a new surge in revenue for developers, and for Facebook. The question is closer than ever ...
  3 days ago

• Interview with CEO of Playdom

  
  Lightspeed Venture Partners Blog — Authority: 410
  Atul Bagga , Gaming analyst with ThinkEquity , has published some great research on the social gaming space. He recently published an interview with the CEO of Playdom , John Pleasants. Playdom is a Lightspeed portfolio company and I’ve known John since we worked together at CitySearch in the mid-late 90s. The ...
  3 days ago

• Frosmo Brings Tournament Gaming to the Web, Facebook

  
  Inside Social Games — Authority: 569
  According to the Casual Games Association there are more than 300 million estimated casual game players on the internet. There are also over 350 million social users on Facebook . So Finnish company Frosmo is launching a new service that combines elements of both worlds and brings them to the rest of the globe. ...
  3 days ago

• Chinese Government To Police Social Games

  
  Family Learning Center — Authority: 164
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• Zynga Pulls A Facebook, Takes Money From DST

  
  SocialTimes.com — Authority: 530
  Zynga is really ramping up funding for the company with a new investment of $180 million from Digital Sky Technologies (DST), the same company which has purchased $300 million worth of Facebook stock, earlier this year. Included in this funding round will be a portion of the money which will be allocated to allow ...
  3 days ago

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