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Marvel Avengers Alliance marries turn-based combat to rich comic book IP
Posted on February 3, 2012 | No CommentsBy AJ Glasser Disney Playdom’s Marvel Avengers Alliance is a turn-based combat game heavily influenced by classic role-playing games. Playdom acquired the rights to develop the game from Marvel after Marvel was... -
What Core Games Bring to Social Games
Posted on April 4, 2011 | No CommentsBy AJ Glasser It’s no secret social games suffer a “they’re not a game” stigma. Just one year ago, the audience at the 2010 Game Developers Choice Awards show booed FarmVille... -
Gaming The New Era Of Facebook
Posted on February 9, 2011 | No Commentsby Paul Hyman While conventional wisdom says one needs the sort of massive hits that Zynga and CrowdStar generate to be really successful on Facebook, that’s “total nonsense,” says one... -
Facebook’s Big Credits Push Shows Itself in CityVille, Other Top Social Games
Posted on January 12, 2011 | No CommentsBy Eric Eldon Over the past year, Facebook has steadily worked to make Credits the only payments option on its platform, but has given few specifics details on what it’s... -
Playdom Closing Chronicles Of Spellborn At The End Of The Month
Posted on August 9, 2010 | No CommentsSocial games developer Playdom revealed that its closing fantasy MMORPG The Chronicles of Spellborn, a property it acquired after buying Acclaim, less than a year and a half after its... -
Playdom Signs Five-Year Contract With Facebook, Will Exclusively Use Credits
Posted on July 29, 2010 | 1 CommentBy Chris Morrison Following on the heels of Playdom’s acquisition by Disney for $563.2 million, we’ve learned from Facebook that the social game publisher has sealed a five-year contract stipulating... -
Disney Buys Playdom For $763.2M
Posted on July 28, 2010 | No CommentsLast week’s rumors have borne fruit: today the Walt Disney Company purchased social game developer Playdom for $563.2 million, with an additional $200 million payout to shareholders possible as a... -
Disney Is Latest Media Company Said to Consider Playdom Acquisition
Posted on July 23, 2010 | 1 CommentBy Eric Eldon While media giant will pull the social gaming acquisition trigger first? Playdom, one of the largest social game developers on the Facebook platform, has been talking to... -
Update: Playdom Paid At Least $850,000 For Hive7
Posted on July 14, 2010 | No Commentsby Robin Wauters A couple of weeks ago, game developer and Zynga rival Playdom continued its shopping spree just after raising $33 million in funding, acquiring social gaming startup Hive7.... -
Playdom Acquires Metaplace
Posted on July 9, 2010 | No CommentsAnother month, another Playdom acquisition: this time it’s developer Metaplace, for an undisclosed sum, as reported by TechCrunch. Metaplace launched as a browser-based virtual world in 2007, founded by Raph...