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  • DeNA acquires Little Cave Hero developer Atakama
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    DeNA acquires Little Cave Hero developer Atakama

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    DeNA, the Japanese social gaming company that acquired ngmoco last year, has announced its latest acquisition. The company will be expanding to Latin America with the purchase of Atakama Labs, a developer best known for the Facebook role playing game Little Cave Hero.
  • Get your feet wet in latest We City update
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    Get your feet wet in latest We City update

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    ngmoco is well-known for their regular content updates in games like We Rule and We City, but every now and then they do something big. And while the latest update to We City may not be as earth-shaking as the transformations we saw in We Rule Quests or Godfinger All Stars, it does add a section of land that city-builders have been clamouring for: beachfront property.
  • R.I.P. Miraphonic
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    R.I.P. Miraphonic

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    Regardless of which end of the deal they're on, ngmoco has frequently been at the center of iPhone gaming's hottest acquisitions. Their first big purchase came back in late 2009 when they acquired Epic Pet Wars developer Miraphonic. Now ngmoco will be eliminating all traces of that once promising social developer, as they'll be removing all four Miraphonic-developed games from the App Store later this month.
  • 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!
  • DeNA and ngmoco to launch Mobage social gaming network in April 2011
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    DeNA and ngmoco to launch Mobage social gaming network in April 2011

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    DeNA's acquisition of ngmoco a few months back had people wondering what exactly this meant for the future of both companies. ngmoco had become widely known in the west for its Plus+ social gaming network on the iPhone. DeNA had seen similar social success with their Mobage-town platform in the east. Today we've received some details on their upcoming world-conquering collaboration called Mobage.
  • Star Wars: Imperial Academy blasts its way into Canadian App Store
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    Star Wars: Imperial Academy blasts its way into Canadian App Store

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    Seemingly out of nowhere, ngmoco has dropped another freemium title on the Canadian App Store tonight. Don't expect to be doing too much farming or pet-raising here, though. Star Wars: Imperial Academy is a multiplayer first-person arena shooter that places you in the boots of a blaster-swinging Stormtrooper.
  • 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.