He says they wanted to be in social games for both original and derivative IP.
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For Kabam, which started off building social games for Facebook, adding Pokki brings another distribution channel.
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In addition to PC, console, online and browser games, mobile and social games joined the party.
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Venture capitalists continue to show keen interest in virtual goods, social games and microtransactions.
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In countries such as China and Japan, social games generate billions of dollars in revenue.
Clearly, Facebook and its relationship with social games is still a work in progress.
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Facebook also needs social games in order for its new virtual currency Credits to be successful.
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The whole Guardian Cross package is governed by an energy system common in free-to-play social games.
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Winster.com, for instance, is focused on creating cooperative, social games that particularly appeal to this demographic.
Social games company Playdom announced the acquisition of Buenos Aires-based developer Three Melons today.
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MocoSpace mobile social games employ both monetization models, as do many popular social games.
Firstly, I wanted to clarify the difference between real cash gaming on Facebook and social games.
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Social games like the insanely popular Farmville are certainly drawing in lots of players.
Comparing our Non-Social WEB gameswith MMORPG games or SOCIAL games is like comparing apples to oranges.
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This is a lesson Glaser thinks Facebook and social games and apps can learn.
Liu was talking about the new feature in context of social games and virtual goods.
Davis notes that Facebook to date has more than 200 million people playing its social games.
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One of the largest collections of social games is controlled by San Francisco-based startup Zynga.
With this purchase, the era of consolidation in social games seems truly well and underway.
But while I enjoy social games, I hate bugging my real friends about it.
Advertisers will now be drawn to the social games space as a way to explore in-game advertising.
OpenFeint is a social games development platform like an Xbox Live for the iPhone and Android phones.
Smith declined to break out exactly how much the social games segment would make in 2011, however.
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Currently Facebook payments focuses on virtual goods used in social games produced by the likes of Zynga.
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Social games are less complex than those played on consoles like Microsoft's Xbox 360 or Sony PlayStation 3.
When Risk first came out in 1957, it was just another in a long line of social games.
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Facebook also makes some money off social games like Zynga's "FarmVille, " which share revenue with the social network.
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The study indicates that age directly correlates with amount of money spent on virtual goods within social games.
Of the survey group, 90% said they intend to play fewer social games in the next 12 months.
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