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Updated: ‘Rango’ Leads Paramount Push Into MMOs
By Andrew Wallenstein
Feb. 10, 2011, 7:06am
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Next month’s Paramount Pictures/Nickelodeon Movies animated film Rango will be the first to get released day and date with its own companion… Read More »
Social Gaming Ads To Soar — But Virtual Goods Still Lead Revenue
By David Kaplan
Jan. 12, 2011, 6:00pm
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With the still rising popularity of social media games like Zynga’s Farmville and Mafia Wars, advertising is naturally beginning to follow.… Read More »
Linden Lab Founder Steps Down As Interim CEO
By Joseph Tartakoff
Oct. 20, 2010, 10:14pm
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More management upheaval at Second Life-parent Linden Lab: Founder Philip Rosedale, who took over as interim CEO after Mark Kingdon stepped… Read More »
Sulake, the Finnish maker of the Habbo virtual world, says it recorded its best first-half-of-year revenue this year – an improvement from 2… Read More »
Metaplace, a social games startup which switched strategies earlier this year after its first business failed, has been purchased by Playdom… Read More »
Linden Lab CEO Mark Kingdon has resigned two weeks after the Second Life parent cut 30 percent of its staff. Kingdon was a big name hire for… Read More »
Linden Lab, which has maintained a big following for its Second Life virtual world but also has seen it surpassed in buzz and growth by a ho… Read More »
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A possible picture of the broad state of the virtual goods industry, which is primarily made up of players who keep their financial results… Read More »
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May. 13, 2010, 10:13am
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Kids’ virtual world Club Penguin may have helped boost Disney’s digital revenues with its higher subscription revenues, but according to the… Read More »
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By Tameka Kee
Dec. 22, 2009, 9:43am
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Metaplace, the virtual worlds development firm founded by former Sony (NYSE: SNE) Online execs, is shutting down. The company’s plan was to… Read More »
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