As Facebook and Google's Orkut duke it out for traffic in India, another social network has quietly gained traction in the space. SMS GupShup, a Twitter-like service in India that is primarily accessed via SMS, has hit 35 million users (up from 26 million late last year) with 1 million users joining

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It's important to keep in mind that many of the largest games on this list also launched long ago, like Playfish’s Petville and Zynga Poker. Perhaps we're starting to see some natural decline among the oldest titles?

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Miniclip has grown its audience of casual gamers on the web to more than 57 million users in the past decade. Now the Neuchatel, Switzerland-based company is launching a mobile division to create Android and iPhone games.

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Playboy Enterprises has announced it plans to launch its own online gaming label. Besides the 'upcoming' Playboy Manager, Playboy is finding another way into the online game market.

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Acclaim Games, owner of MMO 9Dragons, 2 Moon, and the browser-based games such as RockFree, Age of Lore, Pony Stars, seems in trouble now.

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G5 Entertainment recently launched a new Facebook game, Supermarket Mania, that’s a little different from those we usually review: instead of a full social game, G5 has released what amounts to promotional, social rendition of the casual Supermarket Mania game on the iPhone, iPad, PSP, and PC. Because

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Morphee Games is bringing us back to battle-oriented concepts with its newest Facebook release, Galamon. Previously, we’ve seen games like Battle Punks from Gravity Bear approach the concept.

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Social gaming firm CrowdStar is announcing it has partnered with Japanese game studio Drecom to publish CrowdStar's games in Japan. The deal follows Zynga's alliance with SoftBank to create mobile social games in the $2 billion Japanese market.

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Notthingham-based Monumental Games is launching Prime, an engine that powers browser-based MMOs and virtual worlds with 3D graphics that are also compatible with Facebook. Monumental describes it as ideal for "light persistent-state worlds." While the Prime engine does require users to download a plug

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Casual gaming company Digital Chocolate has just filed suit against Zynga, the leader in social gaming, because it says it owns the exclusive rights to the name 'Mafia Wars'.

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As many web-game players know, in most of these games, no matter how high the level of buildings is, the appearance always look exactly the same. For those gamers who advocate ‘the look does matter, it can be a boring experience.

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Following earlier reports of a fiscal year net loss of ¥29.08 billion ($316.14 million), Namco Bandai announced in August this year it would be merging its two US business arms--Namco Bandai Games America and Namco Networks America--in order to create a greater synergy between its console, mobile

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In the United States, Prohibition ended 1933, but it looks like it's just getting started in FarmVille. Zynga has pulled alcoholic beverages from the game, because they don't want "to promote alcohol consumption among the underage," says a customer service rep.

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According to the NPD Group’s newest report, 'Social Network Gaming,' 20 percent on the U.S. population over the age of 6 has played a game on a social network in the past three months. This breaks down to around 56.8 million users in a brand-new market. The report goes on to say that 35 percent of social

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Zattikka, a major new player in social and casual gaming across online and mobile platforms named their new EVP of North American Operations as Joel Breton, former Director of Content for MTV Networks' AddictingGames.com.

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Cosa Nostra, Yakuza and the Columbian Cartel are all well known to criminologists in behavior and structure. Now a previously unknown force has hit the streets. Facebook's StreetRivals introduces: StreetRivals Gangs!

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Dovogame is now opening its doors to external online game publishers to co-publish its flagship simulation game - Business Tycoon Online. The company plans to leverage the current assets to help international online game publishers to publish the game to North America and Europe.

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Another Chinese game company has started to develop a Plants vs. Zombies themed browser-based game!

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The booming popularity of social networking services such as Facebook and Twitter in Korea has given rise to a host of new businesses that hope to take advantage of this growing market.

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Google Chrome, the online app store, will start to focus on providing the users with several browser-based games and these games will also have a feature that will allow the users to review, rate and bookmark games.

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Back in March, Zynga surveyed players, asking how much time they spent playing city-building games like Social City, and that, of course, led us to believe that Zynga was doing its due diligence before launching its own city-building game. And, it looks like something called CityVille might soon be the

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Zynga has the world's largest online poker game, with more than 28 million users playing Zynga Poker monthly on Facebook. Today, the social game company hopes to make the game even bigger by doing its first international localizations of the game.

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Google has just unveiled its online app store on GDC Europe. Set to launch this October, the online app store will focus on supplying users with a variety of online/browser-based games, as well as a community (so that users can review, rate, and bookmark games).

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'Earth Eternal will go down when our internet and hosting provider pulls the plug for non-payment. It's hard to tell when that could happen...' and now, Earth Eternal find its new 'employer' after the auction. However, we don't know who is the winner in this auction.

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The browsergames forum 2010 is now accepting proposals from speakers with deep industry expertise, a fresh, unique and overall international perspective on the state of free2play web-based & social games.

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From the previous 8-bit games based on family computers to the current next-gen games based on PS3 and Xbox360 etc., what changes on earth have video games progressed through over the past 20+ years? And in terms of the same game, how does its current look differ from the one 20+ years ago? Have a look

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Many players who like turn-based strategy games all know Heroes of Might and Magic series. In this game, the hero, who is the core character, conducts his army consisted of various races and units to launch the array of battles. The success or failure of versus and competition mode game depends on wit

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Based upon the second season of the Syfy TV series, Battlestar Galactica Online's story captures the struggle between humans and cylons. Key characters from the TV series will be included in the game to create a deeper connection to the storyline, provide quests and accentuate the dramatic tension that

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FarmVille is a very smart game. It was developed by Zynga, the company founded by serial entrepreneur Mark Pincus, which is on track to pull in $500-million dollars in revenue this year. As of July, FarmVille was hosting the digital homesteads of 61 million users.

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From ‘FarmVille’ to ‘Mumbai Underworld’, game developers see social networks as the way to drive games in India...

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'The Shark 3D Player once for all solves the problem of bringing high quality 3D graphics into the browser without needing an installer or plugin', said Folker Schamel, CEO of Spinor.

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Trinigy, an industry leading 3D game engine provider with over 150 licensees and offices in Germany and Austin, TX, today announced the immediate availability of WebVision, a development framework that lets developers of browser-based games capitalize on theVision Engine's extensive feature set and cross

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Social City developer Playdom has updated the in-game item raffle, with a new water park mega building up for grabs. To obtain the new water park, players first need to collect all eight parts.

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A few niche social networks are, unlike most of their peers, actually growing. MyYearbook claims to be one of them, with a youthful user base and emphasis on meeting new people.

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As the name suggests, Playdemic's growing Facebook title, Gourmet Ranch, is a combination farming and restaurant simulation game.

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InnoGames, one of the worldwide leading developers and publishers of MMOGs is continuing its dynamic growth: As the German company today announced, it has just welcomed it 50 millionth player. The users are coming from all continents and about 200 different countries.

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Playdom is already reaping the rewards of being a part of the larger Walt Disney Corporation. The company is reportedly at work on a social game based on Marvel characters.

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The social gaming space, whether on Facebook, mobile or a dedicated website, is growing fast. While that growth can be promising for young companies with great ideas, it also means that the market is getting even more crowded than it already is.

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Zynga has removed its hit game FarmVille from MSN Games, one of the bigger game portals around, we've learned. Zynga first added FarmVille to MSN in February.

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Denise and Michael Okuda lend their vast knowledge of all things Star Trek as consultants for the upcoming browser and Facebook games.

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On November 5th and 6th, the Capitol Theatre in Offenbach (near Frankfurt am Main) will become this year's "place to be" for the free2play web-based & social games industry.

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Wicked Interactive Ltd and Suba Games LLC Inc are bringing the hit free-to-play MMORPG Fragoria back to the North American market via the Suba Games portal.

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Though copying of both foreign-made and Chinese-made games is rampant in China’s social games industry today, that’s not what will drive the industry forward.

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How to expel the cursed demons from ancient continent and make yourself become an invincible hero? Perhaps many players are eager to know the answer. Now let’s explore how to make a hero in WoL (World of Lordcraft)!

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Earth Eternal developer Sparkplay Media has laid of the majority of staff and could be forced to close its MMO Earth Eternal. According to CEO Matt Mihaly, the business has "run out of money" and attempts to sell or secure investment over the past two months have failed.

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Traditionally, browser based MMORPGs were either text based or built using Adobe Flash or Shockwave. There are dozens of high quality browser games like RuneScape that utilize these methods, and they are still popular options. But a new platform for creating browser games has emerged. It offers developers

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Want to know what the "Tactical browser RPG" is? Here comes the answer! Gamigo's new browser-based game Dungeon Master (working title) is in process.

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Everybody is fond of the games with good graphics. Here, I’ll introduce you a game with both interesting gameplay content and fine graphics - This Land is No.6!. The game’s English version is now being worked on. SO, just stay tuned!

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In its latest foray into the Japanese market, social game developer Zynga Thursday acquired Unoh, a Japanese developer of social games, for undisclosed terms.

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Reported by New York Times, Google had acquired Slide, the start-up that makes apps for social networking web sites. According to TechCrunch, the sale price was $182 million with an agreement to pay an additional $46 million in employee retention bonuses.

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PetVille developer Zynga released a creepy collection of Midnight Crypt decorations, earlier this week. The items don’t officially belong to the Twilight parody “Dusk” item set, but with an emphasis on skulls, bats, and other creepy imagery, the two certainly go well together.

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Since 2007, Hamburg, Germany-based InnoGames has been a developer and distributor of browser-based games. Now the European company is getting into Facebook with a role-playing title, WestWars. Though we have known of this game’s existence for a while now, it only recently became open to the public,

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As we all know, Farmville is a super hot game on Facebook, and once achieved up to 80 million active users in one month. Recently, a game called “Happy Grange” (translated) has appeared on kaixin001.com, China’s No. 1 SNS site. The game really looks like Farmville very much.

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Bigpoint's Most Successful Browser-Based Massively Multiplayer Online Games to Enjoy Wider Distribution Thanks to Heyzap's Flexible Distribution Platform.

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India’s largest online game portal, Zapak, announced today that it is partnering with 6waves to move into social games on Facebook.

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Gameforge AG purchases 60% shares in Frogster Interactive Pictures AG, plans to offer the acquisition of all remaining shares at 25 Euros per share. Is this a sign that Gameforge will go further and take more care on MMO publishing rather than browser games? This won't be a good news for us browser gamers

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Japan’s biggest business daily, The Nikkei, has just reported on its website that social gaming giant Zynga has acquired Tokyo-based startup Unoh for “several billion Yen” (one billion Yen currently translates to $11.6 million). Neither Zynga nor Unoh have officially confirmed the news yet (Robin

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SNAIL GAMES USA announced the launch of a new payment channel for its online gaming community with Go Cash Game Cards. Go Cash Game Cards can now be used by online gamers of all ages to access premium items on Snail Games free-to-play online MMO game titles.

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We’ve heard your feedback and the dates for the Street Racing closure have been put on hold until the end of October. So start your engines, set your markers, and GO! Play Now and Enjoy Street Racing action.

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Starting on the 18th-22nd of August, the gamescom, which specializes in the gaming industry, kicks off its second consecutive year in Cologne. This year is a first for ATLAS Interactive Deutschland GmbH who will be exhibiting in conjunction with Gamecity Hamburg, (Hall 4.2; Booth M-034).

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