The second in a two part series on social games. First the news of Disney purchasing Playdom, the company that has been purchasing Facebook game developers like there was no tomorrow, for over three quarter of a billion dollars. Then this morning this crossed our news feed from Worlds in Motion : “Some have speculated…
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Money to Burn
“Their reasoning made sense, until Richard Garriott announced he was going to be making an Online Poker Game. Geez oh man, the last time I saw a career switch that crazy, Michael Jordan was trying to snag fly balls out in center field.” – Vercarrion Not so open arms Just this morning we received a…
One Big Bandwagon
One BIG bandwagon Social games (read Facebook applications if you must ) are one of those aspects of life of which no one seems to have no opinion. Many in the mmo community, like myself, would rather crawl a mile over broken glass and hot coals than spend any appreciable time with them. When Scott…
Facebook Faceoff
By now most everyone has seen the youthful face of Mark Zuckerberg, one of the co-founders of Facebook – the host of those products with names like Mafia Wars and Farmville. Some people will tell you they love them. Others will claim that they inundate us all with mediocrity and mass marketing. If you ask Richard…
And I shall call it “the wheel”
One of the articles that recently caught my attention was the new one over at Gamasutra featuring none other than Richard Garriottt . However it is not the fact that Richard Garriott and his company Portalarium are getting into social gaming (i.e. Facebook Applications) that I thought was interesting. Rather it was some of the…
Developers are circling
It’s like blood in the water. People with initials after their name like CFO and CEO can hone in on it across vast expanses of space and time like a great white shark senses a dying fish. What is it? Some call it things like “net profit before depreciation”. Whatever you call it, the people…