Picture credit: Stevyn Colgan Disney purchased Club Penguin ($350 million), Playdom ($763.2 million) and once you throw in Tapulous (makers of Iphone games) that is more than just a passing interest in social free to play and mobile games. Robert Iger (CEO Disney) said social games are a “way to reach consumers in a fragmented…
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Nickel and dimed to death
Earlier today Arstechica released the following quote from The Entertainment Software Association report entitled Video Games in the 21st Century for 2010: “The real annual growth rate of the US computer and video game software industry was 10.6 percent for the period 2005-2009 and 16.7 percent for the period 2005-2008,” the report states. “During the…
Bring ‘em young
“No man’s Kwedit is ever as good as his money.” – Edgar Watson Howe “It is amazing what can be accomplished when nobody cares about who gets the Kwedit.” -Robert Yates (this may close to actual kwedit results) “Be vewy, vewy quiet – I’m hunting on Kwedit” – Elmer Fudd It is one of life’s…
Easy but not cheap
Free to play games in the western market seem to be developing the same trend as some of the extremely popular girls we all knew in high school – usually easy, but never cheap. Now it seems that Keen from Keen and Graev’s gaming blog, once the great proponent of Allods has sworn off free…