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  • OpenFeint brings Groupon-like Model to Games
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    OpenFeint brings Groupon-like Model to Games

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    It was only a matter of time. Reportedly making billions of dollars a year and having spurned a rumored $6 billion acquisition offer from Google, GroupOn's group buying model is being copied and adopted to every market and every corner of the world. OpenFeint, among the most forward-thinking companies in the mobile game app space have announced the launch of Game Channel and a new feature called Fire Sale, in an attempt to bring Groupon mechanics to the Apple iTunes Store and Google's Android Marketplace.But, with a few twists since Groupon does not control the commerce portion of Apple's and Google's Store.
  • Pocket Gems raises $5 million from Sequoia in sign of the social mobile times
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    Pocket Gems raises $5 million from Sequoia in sign of the social mobile times

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    If you were a doubter that 2011 will be the year of social mobile, two announcements today should relieve you of any doubt. First of all, Pocket Gems, makers of the Tap series of social games on the iPhone announced they have raised $5 million in funding led by Sequoia Capital. Pocket Gems games include Tap Zoo, Tap Farm, Tap Jungle and have been downloaded more than 15 million times. $5 million and 15 million downloads…those are big numbers!
  • RamaCity Preview
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    RamaCity Preview

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    As the year 2010 ends, 3-D city-building games continue to grow into a big trend on Facebook. Exhibit A, of course, is CityVille (and it's 20 million inhabitants). As for Exhibit B, let me present to you RamaCity, an upcoming 3D social game by Bigpoint.
  • Andy Volk joins Kongregate as VP, Product
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    Andy Volk joins Kongregate as VP, Product

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    "Who is Andy Volk?" This is no Ayn Rand book so I'll tell. He's the new Vice President of Product at Kongregate and all-around brilliant guy. I know this because we worked together at Yahoo! on a secret project that could have made Yahoo! a contender but never got passed the 20 levels of product bureaucratic approval to see the light of day (shame for Yahoo! and the world, it would have been cool what we were working on).
  • Watch out Mexico City, here comes CityVille!
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    Watch out Mexico City, here comes CityVille!

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    The big news in Facebook games this weekend is just how fast Zynga's CityVille is growing. As of this morning, CityVille has grown to 22 million monthly active users (MAUs) and over 7 million daily active users) making it the second largest city in the world. Why is CityVille growing so fast when virality is dead on Facebook as pundits (such as myself) like to say?
  • Will Real Games Unifi your Games?
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    Will Real Games Unifi your Games?

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    What is Real Games working on in casual games? We have no specific new insights, but we can speculate about a future product based on a Forbes article that went up this morning. According to Forbes, Real plans to launch a new service called Unifi, that will collect all your digital content --- video, music, files, e-books - and allow you to access it on all your devices - computers, phones, and tablets. That's a very cool service, except it's missing one piece of content - games.
  • CityVille is a success (so Zynga, maybe you can dial down the emails a bit?)
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    CityVille is a success (so Zynga, maybe you can dial down the emails a bit?)

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    So, how is CityVille, Zynga's latest game, doing so far a week after launch? In the words of Larry David from Curb your Enthusiasm, "pretty pretty good." Within 24 hours, 290,000 people were playing CityVille (compared to 116,000 players in FrontierVille the first day of that game). Within a week, according to David Ko (Zynga SVP Mobile), CityVille saw 3 million daily active users. Which is cool, because maybe the game is doing well enough, someone at Zynga will realize that their rocking email system that sends me an email notification every time someone I know invites me to play, sends me a gift, or sends a reminder of someone sending me a zoning permit that I ignored since it's clogging my email box, may actually tone down their email notifications a bit.
  • Gamezebo’s Twitter Feed hits 2200. Danke!
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    Gamezebo’s Twitter Feed hits 2200. Danke!

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    Gamezebo's Twitter feed has hit 2200 followers (yea!) and we did it the old fashioned way. Not by following every web site in the universe, but by tweeting our news and re-tweeting great content from the sites we follow with latest game news, free game shout-outs, and interesting musings. Thank you to all who follow us on Twitter. And, if you not a follower yet, now is your chance to join the fun and follow us! If you own an iPad, we have recently partnered with Flipboard and Pulse, two news feed readers that offer an awesome magazine-like experience, to offer our Twitter feed. I'd suggest anyone with an iPad check these two of my favorite apps out and add Gamezebo as a featured feed. And, you can check out updates to our Twitter feed anytime on our Meebo bar.