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  • DeNA to Zynga, Facebook: My ARPU is bigger than yours
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    DeNA to Zynga, Facebook: My ARPU is bigger than yours

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    DeNA, the Japanese social games company you may not have heard of until their acquired ngmoco a month ago, released their quarterly earnings today and they were huge. DeNA reported $336.4 million in revenues and an end-of-year revenue projection of $1.25 billion. Just as significantly, DeNA claims its ARPU (average revenue per user) is 15X greater than Zynga and 30X greater than Facebook.
  • Did PopCap’s John Vechey just say that downloads are irrelevant?
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    Did PopCap’s John Vechey just say that downloads are irrelevant?

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    Yes he did. As reported by Libe Goad of Games.com, PopCap co-founder said at the IGDC Leadership Forum that "downloadable [PC] games are irrelevant. We only work on them because they work well to go to other platforms." A strange and crazy comment, considering PopCap is credited as being the first casual games company to hit it big with Bejeweled and is still considered a leading developer for casual download games. Yet, when you put his quote in context of entire keynote address, what John is saying is not so strange and crazy after all.
  • Digital Chocolate releases Island God, third game so far this week
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    Digital Chocolate releases Island God, third game so far this week

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    Another day, another game released by our friends at Digital Chocolate. On Monday it was Hollywood City. Yesterday it was Vegas City. And today, it's Island God. Island God lets users rule over their own little island paradise and control a tribe of little worshippers. If this reminds you of Pocket God or Godfinger on the iPhone, this premise may sound familiar to you. It's new for the Facebook gamers, though.
  • Digital Chocolate goes Hollywood and launches Hollywood City on Facebook
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    Digital Chocolate goes Hollywood and launches Hollywood City on Facebook

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    Digital Chocolate moments ago launched a brand new game on Facebook, Hollywood City. Hollywood City is a tycoon and strategy game where you can manage your own virtual entertainment empire. Players can "greenlight" their own film productions, make TV commercials, and TV videos, as well as produce films for different genres, such as horror, drama, and comedy.
  • Facebook slaps huge penalty against LOLapps for all apps and games except for Ravenwood Fair
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    Facebook slaps huge penalty against LOLapps for all apps and games except for Ravenwood Fair

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    It's been two weeks since Facebook removed the apps and games by LOLapps for a weekend for breaking its privacy rules, but that was apparently only a small part of the punishment. Facebook has slapped a much bigger and far-reaching punishment on LOLapps: a six-month suspension of access to all viral channels. This means, users will not be able to make any wall posts, send invitations, or share content within the feed for any of their apps. Essentially, Facebook is cutting off all of LOLapps' viral channels.
  • Capcom bringing the Smurfs to the iPhone
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    Capcom bringing the Smurfs to the iPhone

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    Papa Smurf, Gargamel, and Smurfette are coming to the iPhone courtesy of Capcom. According to Games.com, Smurf Village will be the Smurfs meets FarmVille with a dash of FrontierVille (I bet Zynga didn't expect that as competition) and is launching by the end of November.
  • Yet another Halloween Guide for Facebook Games
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    Yet another Halloween Guide for Facebook Games

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    As I mentioned before, based on all the Halloween activities around the spooky holiday, social game companies must sell as much virtual items during this time as Hershey's sell candy. Here is Inside Social Games' guide for all the Halloween events this weekend within the big 4 social game developers' games (including FarmVille, of course). And going retro, here's our previous post with Games.com's summary of Halloween events from a week before.