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In a discussion with sister website Gamasutra at the Gstar 2009 video game trade show in Busan, Korea, Taiwan's XPEC Entertainment revealed that its upcoming sci-fi MMO, Bounty Hounds Online , was inspired by massive piracy of the original Bounty Hounds on PSP.
"In 2006 the game went to ...
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Gaia Online
Shanghai-based MMO operator and developer The9 Limited says year-over-year revenues for its third quarter (ending September 30th, 2009) fell by 94 percent after the company's local license agreement with Activision Blizzard for World of Warcraft expired, taken over by rival publisher NetEase. ...
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World of Warcraft
MMORPG publisher Codemasters Online announced a partnership with online payments platform PlaySpan to enable its players to purchase digital goods and services using more than 56 different payment methods through the UltimatePay system.
PlaySpan describes UltimatePay as an amalgamation of ...
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Codemasters
The Lord of the Rings Online
Social game developer Playfish is rolling out Poker Rivals , a new app looking to "take Texas Hold 'Em Poker to a whole new level", on Facebook, setting up a Beta version of the game that you can already jump in and start playing (though I had disconnection problems when I tried it out).
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MMO company Frogster announced the launch of a new Runes of Magic server with a fully localized Spanish version of the game for the U.S. and Canada, claiming this is "the first free-to-play online game in North America to launch a Spanish-language server".
The company believes the new ...
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Runes of Magic
NCsoft has enacted what it calls a "massive" ban across North American and European servers for its Aion subscription PC MMO, removing user accounts for violations.
The violations targeted were primarily "botting" -- or modifying the client to automate play -- or illegally buying and ...
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NCsoft
Aion
Russian MMO company Nival Network closed a $5 million round of funding from an undisclosed investor, which will go toward the development of Prime World , an online strategy game with social networking elements.
The studio develops, publishes, and operates both subscription-based and ...
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Cabal Online
Shaiya
Some 2 million Xbox Live users have logged into Facebook since it launched over the service on November 17, Microsoft says -- which means about 10 percent of the total userbase has tried the new feature.
Discussing early indicators of strong performance for its social networking features ...
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Microsoft
The Chinese government will enact regulations requiring local game operators like Shanda, NetEase.com, and Tencent Holdings to emphasize socialist values in their games and hire specialized staff to monitor their content.
China's Ministry of Culture told operators that they must re-examine ...
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Gaia Online
Every week, we'll examine the most popular Facebook applications (according to MUA, monthly active users), as well as the social network's up-and-coming apps that have picked up the most users in the past seven days.
Zynga's FishVille is at the top of the upstarts chart for the second week ...
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Champions Online
Cryptic
Social games developer Zynga, which today announced it reached 100 million unique users for its online titles ( FarmVille, Café World ), could generate a value of $1 billion dollars if the company were taken public, according to a stock analyst predicting the studio's worth.
"If the IPO were ...
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Electronic Arts
Zynga, developer of mega-successful social game FarmVille , says it has reached a major user milestone, with more than 100 million unique users playing its online games every month.
A million of those players spend money on virtual goods each month. Despite that figure only representing 1 ...
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ArenaNet co-founder Jeff Strain, who left NCsoft in August of this year, has revealed his new project: Seattle-based game development studio Undead Labs.
Strain, a key figure in the development of Guild Wars , will continue to focus on MMOs -- this time on consoles, promising to "pioneer a ...
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ArenaNet
Guild Wars
Blizzard
Jeff Strain
Abandon Interactive, the publisher behind toy-based MMO Freaky Creatures , announced a partnership with Hallmark Gold Crown stores to exclusively distribute Freaky Pets, its new interactive product, in 2010.
Targeting children aged four years old and up, the Freaky Pets line consists of ...
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Offerpal Media, an ad provider for social apps and games, announced a new set of standards for its controversial lead generation offers, just as Facebook bans other providers like Tatto Media for their questionable ads.
The company's ads consist of special offers featured alongside free ...
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Sacramento-based law firm Kershaw, Cutter & Ratinoff (KCR) filed a class-action suit against Facebook and developer Zynga, seeking upwards of $5 million in damages due to scam-like lead generation ads featured in the latter's games.
The Cost Per Action (CPA) advertisements in question allows ...
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Gaia Online
In our latest employment-specific round-up, we highlight some of the notable jobs posted in big sister site Gamasutra's industry-leading game jobs section this week, including positions from Relic Entertainment, Zoe Mode and more.
Each position posted by employers will appear on the main ...
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Tokyo-based software distributor and online games publisher Vector announced The Seventh Dragon (no relation to Sega and Imageepoch's Nintendo DS RPG with the same name in Japan), its first MMORPG to feature an English edition, launching on December 1st.
Known as Dragon Crusade in Japan, ...
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Sega
Specialty retailer GameStop recently acquired a majority interest in online gaming platform Jolt. The company develops and publishes license-based, free-to-play titles such as Playboy Manager and the Legends of Zork casual game (in partnership with Activision) based on the text adventure ...
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Gaia Online
Mobile payments provider announced new partnerships with twelve game companies from the online and social game space, including Outspark and NHN. The new agreements enable Boku to offer mobile payments for virtual goods and currencies purchases to almost 200 million registers users across more ...
