Archive for January, 2010

1. 6 Waves raises $17.5 million for Facebook publishing

   January 21, 2010

   Hong Kong-based developer 6 Waves has just raised $17.5 million from Insight Venture Partners. The company, which has only 18 employees, is one of the largest developers on Facebook. According to AppData, 6 Waves ranks #6 by monthly average users, with 44 million. The company has moved away from simply being a developer and now [...]

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   Posted in: Finance

   Tagged with: 6 waves, insight venture partners, investment

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2. The iPhone ain’t a games platform if the best-selling game of all time only reached 4% of the audience

   January 20, 2010

   Bolt Interactive has just announced some impressive numbers for Pocket God. The game has sold 2 million units since its launch in January 2009. That’s pretty impressive sales, even for a title that costs only $0.99. But there’s a great big cloud to this silver lining. Pocket God is probably the best-selling iPhone game now. [...]

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   Posted in: Analysis

   Tagged with: apple, bolt interactive, iphone, pocket god, starred, statistics

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3. Gamesbrief’s Weekly Tweets for 2010-01-19

   January 19, 2010

   Just posted: Top Turkeys from the Noughties – part 2 http://tinyurl.com/ylqovkj # RT @Specialmove: Great #gamesjob for a Technical Director of Online Gaming. UK based – Please mail andy@specialmove.com for details # Unity's @davidhelgason on 2010 – the year of gamification. A must read for all game developers http://bit.ly/80mV2O # Putting the boot into EA's [...]

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   Posted in: Opinion

   Tagged with: twitter

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4. Top Turkeys from the Noughties – part 2

   January 18, 2010

   Last week, I listed five games that left financial ruin in their wake in the first decade of the twenty-first century (you can read Part 1 here). Here are the concluding five. Five games that their publishers would rather forget. Tabula Rasa, NCsoft, 2007 It pains me to include this title because Richard Garriott is [...]

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   Posted in: Featured, Sandbox

   Tagged with: 3d Realms, atari, codemasters, dragon empires, duke nukem forever, enter the matrix, free radical, haze, ncsoft, shiny entertainment, starred, tabula rasa, take 2, turkeys, ubisoft

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5. MP for a week – the first review

   January 14, 2010

   This is a guest post from Dan Griliopoulos, games PR, journalist and former Parliamentary researcher The expenses scandal might have confirmed the suspicion that the only thing our politicians are professional about is lining their own pockets, but it’s nice to see that of the £500 million we spend on Parliament (over a £150 million [...]

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   Posted in: Sandbox

   Tagged with: mp for a week, politics, reviews

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6. Ten Turkeys from the Noughties – part 1

   January 12, 2010

   At the end of last year, we saw a lot of lists of best games of the decade. But we didn’t read about the turkeys. The games that really flopped. The games industry’s equivalent of Waterworld. Or Ishtar. Or Heaven’s Gate. I’m not just talking about games that were bad. There are lots of those. [...]

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   Posted in: Featured, Sandbox

   Tagged with: argonaut, core design, daikatana, electronic arts, flagship studios, hellgate: london, ion storm, majestic, malice, starred, tomb raider: angel of darkness, turkeys

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7. Gamesbrief’s Weekly Tweets for 2010-01-12

   January 12, 2010

   RT @StruManchu: The Wii is the most energy efficient console of its generation? I guess so – I know mine's been unplugged for months. # Rockstar spouses use long words they don't understand to make their point. http://bit.ly/6rNd28. Just speak English, dears # Important piece on Android for any mobile developers out there. http://bit.ly/7pLbXJ # [...]

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   Posted in: Sandbox

   Tagged with: twitter

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