PopCap Games, publisher of nearly-every-social-game-worth-being-addicted-to, released a survey today, conducted by internal staff. Of the 5,000 respondents, 1/4th used social platforms like MySpace and Facebook. More interesting, the statistics averaged out to paint the picture of the average social gamer as being a 43 year-old female. Residents of both the United States and the United […]
If you have ever played Mafia Wars or Farmville on Facebook, you have seen the fruits of Zynga’s efforts. The world’s largest social games company has just received a mountainous investment from Digital Sky Technologies, Eastern Europe’s largest internet investor. DST has made an offer to purchase approximately $180 million worth of Zynga’s securities, making […]
According to the website scrawlfx.com, these images may confirm facebook integration, new more customizable gamer cards, and a new more fluid way to organize photos. No other information other than the photos have been released and Sony has not made any type of announcement. Although it is not Farfetch’d to believe that Sony would follow […]
Electronic Arts’ spending spree continues as the mega-publisher takes up the popular social gaming company Playfish for a cool $275 million. Rumored last month in various reports, EA confirmed the announcement yesterday, elaborating on an additional $25 million in equity retention arrangements. Playfish is a world-wide development in the social gaming sphere, with over 150 […]