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Research for Alamofire Strategic Plan
Updated on 2008-08-31
Created on 2008-07-23
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New Stats Show Casual Explosion | Edge Online
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during 2007, casual games reached over 145 million people aged 12-65. Of that figure over 71 million play casual games for one or more hours per week.
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considerable consolidation
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Birdmen and the Casual Fallacy
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why Blizzard puts on any business contract that its
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”People buy Nintendo and Blizzard games because of their
franchise worlds.” But other third party games have as rich
of a franchise world. “Nintendo and Blizzard have the money
to delay their games and perfect them. Most third parties do
not have that luxury.” While this is true, it raises the
question as to how Nintendo and Blizzard got to where they
are. They started small like everyone else and, at a time,
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U.S. online video game subscriptions generate $1 billion in revenues per year » VentureBeat
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U.S. online video game subscriptions are generating $1 billion a year in subscription revenue, according to market researcher NPD Group.
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The top five games in the first quarter of 2008 were “World of Warcraft,” “RuneScape,” “Lord of the Rings Online,” “Final Fantasy XI,” and “City of Heroes.” The top casual sites in subscribers were Electronic Arts’ Pogo.com, Real Networks’ RealArcade.com, Bigfishgames.com, Gametap.com, and Disney.com.
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E3: EA previews new social networking model in Nucleus/Rupture - Joystiq
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Rupture, Fanning's project, will carry this collaboration forward with an ability to track and challenge friends across games and platforms.
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Playfish: Using Facebook As Its Gaming Console
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Traditionally, large publishers have lorded over the $50 billion gaming industry
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Playfish developed the 3 games over the past 6 months and has grown to about 6 million monthly users playing an average of 30 minutes a session.
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As Facebook Developers Get the Beat Down, Playfish Says “Bring ‘Em On”
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Additionally, the company has also signed deals with AOL, Yahoo, and Microsoft to power in-game advertising.
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Funware’s threat to the traditional video game industry » VentureBeat
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Flickr traces its origins to game industry veterans Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake, whose team stumbled upon photo-sharing while they were trying to make a game. Bunchball has made a tool, dubbed Nitro, that makes web sites more engaging by instilling them with reward-based activities. Entellium has built game principles into its customer relationship management software and Seriosity has a game-like email program.
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But they haven’t responded in part because the Facebook games they fear that such games may cannibalize the highly-profitable games that game companies charge $60 for. Zichermann says that was the same disastrous response the music industry had to Napster in the late 1990s. Popular Facebook games such as Scrabulous, Werewolves, Vampires, and Friends For Sale were not built by game companies, Zichermann says.
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Social Gaming Pwns The Industry
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The social network *is* the game. And most great games (thoughnot all) are also social networks - however thinly veiled.
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The War to Build the Next Warcraft
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As silly as it may sound, Puzzle Pirates has been a surprise hit with 2 million registered users, 30,000 of whom have signed up as subscribers—worth a tidy $3.3 million inrevenue last year for Three Rings.
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BBC NEWS | Technology | Boom times for virtual playgrounds
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158 online games and virtual worlds in development or up and running designed specifically for children.
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Habbo - 90m accountsNeoPets - 45m accountsIMVU - 20m accountsClub Penguin - 15m accountsStar Doll - 15m accountsGaia - 12m accountsBarbie Girls - 12m accounts
Source: K Zero
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Stephen's Lighthouse: July 2006 Archives
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Habbo Hotel: 50 million members
Neopets: 70 million+ virtual pet owners
Coke Studios: 8+ million registered users
Virtual Magic Kingdom: 1+ million registered users
Goonzu: (Korea): 3 million members
Guild Wars: 2 million members
Project Entropia: 400,000 members
Ragnarok Online: 17 million members
Second Life: 290,000 members
World of Warcraft: 5.5 million members
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Gaia Online Completes $11 Million Series C Funding - SmartBrief
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Each month more than 5 million unique users socialize
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RuneScape hits 1 million subscribers, including free members 10 million players total - VideoGamesBlogger
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ver 1 million subscribers who pay $5 a month each. Additionally, according to Gamedaily more than 9 million players are trying out RuneScape for free. That makes for a hefty total userbase of over 10 million RuneScape players!
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Worlds In Motion - Goods-for-Cash Comes to Neopets
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Additionally, the availability of Neopets goods for purchase coincides with the beta of Viacom's new NC mall, which will house virtual boutiques where kids can shop for add-ons to their pet and its world.
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Up until now, Viacom's revenue from Neopets came from the sale of banner advertisements on the site, which boasts over 40 million registered users around the world, and more than 12 million unique new users monthly.
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Actually, social networks and their widgets are making money, thanks » VentureBeat
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The company is working with ad company called Federated Media and a Facebook application that lets you draw artwork and feature it on user profiles, called Graffiti.
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The company is making money, president Shervin Pishevar tells me, from selling advertising that targets users who play its games. For example, it it making “pretty good CPMs” on video ads that run before a game (in contrast to video ads that run before a video), he says, although he wouldn’t provide specific numbers.
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Inside Facebook » Offerpal Media Monetizing Virtual Currency Apps on Facebook
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Only one year after raising money and 7 months after launching with its first Facebook application partner publisher, (fluff)Friends, Offerpal Media has 40 employees and works with some of the largest app developers, including Friends For Sale and (Lil) Green Patch.
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mobile offers work well on Facebook. Some of the softer offers, like market research, also work well. Subscriptions also work well. It varies by country - for example, our Blockbuster offer works very well in the UK.
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Virtual goods starting to pan out for Facebook game app developers, and not just the venture-funded ones » VentureBeat
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Specifically, one source tells me Mob Wars is projecting it will make $15 million in the next twelve months, although its developers haven’t gotten back to me to confirm.
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Real Network To Spin Off Games Unit, Possibly with IPO - Seeking Alpha
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including $4 million from its recent acquisition of the Trymedia
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For the full year, Real sees revenue of $628 million to $643
million, including $12 million from Trymedia
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