Social gaming play, Playfish, announced today that it has completed a new round of funding led by Accel Partners and Index Ventures. The $17 million Series B investment will be used to grow Playfish. The company is betting on social games, which according to Playfish, has an important role in the future of the gaming [...]
October 28th, 2008 | rp | Comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "online games"
Mobile game trial company Mpowerplayer raises $2.5 million series A
Mpowerplayer, the mobile game trial and merchandising solutions company for the wireless industry, announced today that it has secured $2.5 million in Series A funding. The round includes investments from New Atlantic Ventures, the Center for Innovative Technology GAP Fund, and LaunchBox Digital.
The company is aiming at casual gamers through game trials using widget based [...]
Virtual world company Gaia Online raises $11 million series C
Gaia Online, the leading online hangout for teens, has raised $11 million Series C round from Institutional Venture Partners (IVP). eMarketer is predicting that the number of teen internet users visiting virtual worlds will jump from the reported 8.2 million users in 2007 to 20 million in 2011, Gaia Online is targetting this growing audience [...]
July 25th, 2008 | rp | Comments | ContinuedYahoo’s plan for free and low cost online gaming
Yahoo! has announced that Yahoo! Games will offer ad-supported downloadable games from the top casual games publishers. With more than 400 ad-supported games available to users by the end of the year, Yahoo is creating new opportunities for advertisers ad well as enabling low cost and free games for users.
“In game advertising is a win-win [...]
