Tag Archives: casual games

The Future Of Social Gaming 10 Feb 2010

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Almaz Capital takes 23 percent in Russian casual games firm Alawar

from: http://www.techoat.com/almaz-capital-takes-23-percent-in-russian-casual-games-firm-alawar/
Almaz Capital Partners has purchased a 23 percent stake in Russia’s casual web-based game publisherAlawar Entertainment.
The purchase price wasn’t disclosed. On the strength of its Russian-speaking audience, Alawar has risen to become one of the top 10 casual game publishers worldwide.
Almaz Capital Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in Russian [...]

Japanese rape games invade Indian computers

from: Times of India
If you are worried about the effect of violent computer games on your child, here’s a shocker: sex games with graphic visuals, including those which test the player’s ‘raping skills’, are making their way here, mostly from Japan.
Rapelay, a 3D game created by a Japanese firm, Illusion, with a storyline’ prodding [...]

Crowdsourced summary of Social Gaming Summit 2009

Thanks to Mayank
Social Gaming Summit 2009

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Scamville: The Social Gaming Ecosystem Of Hell

An interesting article by Michael Arrington on Washingtonpost.com
Last weekend I wrote about how the big social gaming companies are making hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue on Facebook and MySpace through games like Farmville and Mobsters. Major media can’t stop applauding the companies long enough to understand what’s really going on with these [...]

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