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Gravity Sling shows how virtual goods sales work on the iPhone
Rome :: Italy | 1 day ago
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Riptide Games has revealed how well virtual goods sales work on the iPhone with its new game Gravity Sling . It’s yet another case study in how to get ahead in the iPhone economy. There’s a lot of hope that virtual goods sales — known as in-app purchases...
Tags: virtual goods, app purchases, open feint, Brian Robbins, goods sales, level packs, gravity sling, Italy, Rome, Smartphones, Web 2.0, App Store, Facebook, Apple Inc., Business Finance, IPhone, ITunes, Multi-touch, Technology Internet
An iPhone case study: Backflip proves indie developers can create and market multiple hit games
Boulder :: CO :: USA | 2 days ago
Credibility Backflip Studios has managed to defy the odds on the iPhone by coming up with hit games that have become big hits over and over. The Boulder, Colo.-based game studio has just six employees and has been around only seven months. But they have scored big...
Tags: virtual goods, Boulder, Smartphones, Video game developers, Zynga, FarmVille, App Store, allnews, IPhone, ITunes, Multi-touch, Technology Internet, Paper Toss, Ngmoco, Business Finance, video games
Harris: Big bets being made on online gaming
New York City :: NY :: USA | 6 days ago
Credibility All those virtual vampires, zombies and mobsters are making serious money. RockYou, archrival of Slide in the development of apps and ad networks on Facebook and other social networks, just raised another $50 million in venture capital, bringing its total...
Tags: Zynga, virtual goods, Playdom, RockYou, social networks, Facebook, New York City
China’s growing addiction: online farming games
Tōkyō :: Japan | 26 days ago
Credibility A new agrarian revolution has occured in China, but only in the virtual worlds of social games. Social farm games now dominate all major Chinese social networking sites — RenRen (formerly Xiaonei), Kaixin001 , 51.com , and QQ’s QZone . The May launch...
Tags: China, virtual goods, Asian
More gamers are selling virtual goods
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 28 days ago
Credibility A new survey shows that not only are game players buying virtual goods, they’re also selling them in large numbers. About 31 percent of the people who have bought virtual goods have also sold them. That means that virtual currency is gaining momentum,...
Tags: virtual goods, social gold, Jambool
ProfileSnaps pops up social network profiles of people in pages
San Mateo :: CA :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility Entrepreneur Biran Josic has come up with a useful variant on those pop-up windows linked to names and words in the middle of news stories...ProfileSnaps pops up a profile of a person that’s been automatically loaded with their social network links, an...
Tags: virtual goods
Consumers are spending lots of real money on virtual goods
Palo Alto :: CA :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility Think of it as something that exists only online and in the hearts and minds of the user — like a faux flower on Facebook, or digital couture for an avatar, or a magical shield in a game of warcraft. The beaucoup estimates strike me as both unbelievable...
Tags: virtual goods
iPhone 3.0 event: 30 million sold — now that’s a game platform
Shanghai :: China | 8 months ago
Credibility Back in November, we noted that there were 8,000 applications , including 1,500 games...Nintendo is launching its answer, the Nintendo DSi, on April 5 in the U.S. But I suspect the competition between the two is going to get much more interesting. The...
Tags: virtual goods
Second Life moves into the virtual goods market business
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 10 months ago
Credibility Diving into one of the hot business models for virtual labs, Linden Lab said today it has acquired two virtual goods markets that sell items for the denizens of its Second Life virtual world. Linden Lab has bought Xstreet SL and OnRez, two burgeoning...
Tags: second life, virtual world, virtual goods, linden labs, OnRez Linden Lab, goods marketplaces, labs acquires
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