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June 21, 2012

Video Game Sales: Infographic from Statistica

June 21, 2012/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 21JUN2012 from http://mashable.com/2012/06/21/video-game-industry/?utm_source=feedburner&amp...

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May 01, 2012

Beyond Web 2.0: Implications of Mobile

May 01, 2012/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 01MAY2012 from http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericjackson/2012/04/30/heres-why-google-and-faceb... In the tech world, we’ve really had 3 generations: Web 1.0 (companies founded from 1994 – 2001, including Netscape, Yahoo! (YHOO), AOL (AOL),...

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Marketspaces, Socio-Technical
March 27, 2012

Mob Science raises $1M in funding

March 27, 2012/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 27MAR2012 from http://tinyurl.com/bom3rh2 Social games company Mob Science has raised $1 million in a new round of funding, as a means of accelerating the growth of its social games portfolio. The company has released over a dozen games ...

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March 27, 2012

Console vs Mobile Games

March 27, 2012/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 27MAR2012 from http://www.thetechblock.com/articles/2012/console-mobile-gaming-war/ Console sales are down and *gasp* mobile gaming is up!... Fact is, this generation’s console roster has had a much longer shelf life than any generation ...

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March 27, 2012

Growth of Digital Games

March 27, 2012/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 27MAR2012 from http://venturebeat.com/2012/03/22/digital-game-sales-reach-3-3b-in-u-s-and-eu... Digital game sales reached a total of $3.33 billion in the fourth quarter in the U.S. and Europe, according to the NPD Group. The U.S. number...

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March 23, 2012

Social Impact of Social Games

March 23, 2012/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 23MAR2012 from http://www.onlineuniversity.net/online-gamers-get-girls/ The Internet dating industry has blossomed in recent years, and people all over the world are turning to popular relationship sites in search of love. But when it co...

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March 21, 2012

The Rise of Social Network Games

March 21, 2012/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 21MAR2012 from http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/166479/how_triplea_games_went_social_an... This isn't just about creating mini-game crossovers that can be used to promote an upcoming blockbuster console release. Instead, it's about ...

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March 21, 2012/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
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Best of 2012, Marketspaces, Socio-Technical
March 21, 2012

Wargaming.net

March 21, 2012/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 21MAR2012 from http://tinyurl.com/83lltwo Developer and publisher Wargaming.net has revealed that World of Tanks, its client-based, free-to-play game, makes somewhere in the low end of "double-digit" millions in profits every month. The ...

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March 21, 2012/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
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Finance, Marketspaces
March 19, 2012

Christian Allen on Kickstarter

March 19, 2012/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 19MAR2012 from http://tinyurl.com/7vlmy9n Allen wants to make a shooter. An old-school tactical shooter (first person or third) like he used to develop at Red Storm. A game like the old Rainbow Six or Ghost Recon... This is what it would...

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March 19, 2012/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
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Finance, Marketspaces
March 19, 2012

TroopSwap

March 19, 2012/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 19MAR2012 from https://www.troopswap.com/pages/about TroopSwap is the first e-commerce platform dedicated exclusively to the military community. The firm partners with local and national-wide merchants to provide great deals for service ...

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March 18, 2012

Leadership Style Behind Pinterest

March 18, 2012/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 19MAR2012 from http://mashable.com/2012/03/11/pinterest-first-investor/ “I was Pinterest’s first investor.” That’s a sentence I bet you wish you could say. Here at SXSW, I find myself sitting opposite angel investor Brian Cohen who happi...

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March 18, 2012

Pinterest Getting Attention

March 18, 2012/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 19MAR2012 from http://mashable.com/2012/03/18/pinterest-brand-attention/ If your brand isn’t on Pinterest, you could be missing out on a growing stream of potential customers. While shaping your brand’s image on Pinterest, remember to ta...

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March 15, 2012

SCREW*D: Blended Reality Community

March 15, 2012/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 15MAR2012 from http://www.craftsmanscrewd.com/ This summer, Craftsman is going to take one tool-clueless person, and through a series of intense, even high-risk tool and survival challenges, put them through the ringer. The goal: Turn th...

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March 15, 2012/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
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Collaborative Intelligence, Marketspaces
March 15, 2012

SXSWi Awards to Pinterest, Storify

March 15, 2012/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 15MAR2012 from http://tinyurl.com/7teb6mp South by Southwest Interactive officially drew to a close Tuesday with the 15th Annual Interactive Awards. The awards honored not only well-known sites and services from the past year such as Pin...

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March 13, 2012

Katie Salen on Gaming and Education

March 13, 2012/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 13MAR2012 from http://sxsw.com/node/10853 Katie Salen, Executive Director of the Institute of Play, helps administer two schools based on gaming and education, but she likes to keep up-to-date with professional game designers as well... ...

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March 07, 2012

Kabam's Hardcore Games for Social Networks

March 07, 2012/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 07MAR2012 from http://venturebeat.com/2011/05/26/kaboom-kabam-raises-85m-for-hardcore-social... Kabam has raised $85 million in a fourth round of funding to fuel its business making hardcore games for social networks such as Facebook. Th...

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March 05, 2012

Top-Selling Games in U.S. (Week of 25FEB2012)

March 05, 2012/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 05MAR2012 from http://www.vgchartz.com/charts/weekly.php Pos Game Weekly Total Week # 1 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (X360)Activision, Shooter 73,541 7,679,545 16 2 Uncharted: Golden Abyss (PSV)Sony Computer Entertainment, Action 68,15...

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March 05, 2012

Top-Selling Games at Retail (Week of 25FEB2012)

March 05, 2012/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 05MAR2012 from http://www.vgchartz.com/charts/weekly.php Global Sales Pos Game Weekly Total Week # 1 Uncharted: Golden Abyss (PSV)Sony Computer Entertainment, Action 200,664 328,981 11 2 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (PS3)Activision, Sh...

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March 05, 2012

Games with a Purpose

March 05, 2012/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 05MAR2012 from http://phylo.cs.mcgill.ca/eng/about.html [Games with a purpose are a hot topic at the Game Developers Conference this week] What's Phylo all about? Though it may appear to be just a game, Phylo is actually a framework for ...

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March 05, 2012

Gamify Real Life

March 05, 2012/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 05MAR2012 from http://venturebeat.com/2012/03/01/demo-asia-3-startups-that-gamify-life/ This week’s DEMO Asia saw several startups pitch new ways to gamify real life. Keith Ng at GameMaki challenged the audience to put away their mobile ...

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