Activision reveals Q4 line-up
Hawk, Hero, Duty and Bond head-up publisher’s blockbuster Christmas release schedule MCV is the leading news site for the game industry. Check out our news, press releases and interviews.
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Google’s Jambool Acquisition Confirmed
Earlier this week we broke the news that Jambool and their Social Gold virtual currency platform had been acquired by Google. Jambool founders Vikas Gupta and Reza Hussien have just confirmed the deal on their company blog . While the founders did not reveal a purchase price, our sources have it pegged at around $70 millon. Jambool’s Social Gold monetization platform allows game developers to integrate payment systems into their games. Google’s most recent gaming grab is in accordance with their current “Google Games” focused acquisition thrust; The search engine recently picked up Slide for $182 million and reportedly plunked down a $100 million investment in Zynga. From the Jambool blog: August 13, 2010 We are excited to announce that Jambool is becoming a part of the Google family today. Jambool started as a social collaboration platform in 2006. In 2007, we shifted our focus to build applications on social networks. Along with success, we found fun and lucrative ways to monetize our apps – specifically virtual currency and goods. That led us to create a platform to help developers create, host, manage and monetize their virtual economies. Social Gold has grown by leaps and bounds since it went live in 2008. In the first half of 2010, we’ve processed more than double the entire payment volume we processed in all of 2009. And we’ve welcomed hundreds of developers to our platform. The fact that our highest revenue day was in the last week attests to the continued growth of online gaming. Our vision is to build world-class products that help developers manage and monetize their virtual economies across the globe. When the opportunity arose to join forces with Google to execute against this vision, we couldn’t pass it up. We are thrilled to bring the Social Gold platform to Google’s global users. And we invite you – our customers, partners, and friends – to continue on the journey with us. Over the last few years, we have had the great fortune of working with an incredible team. Every day, we are amazed and humbled by what they have accomplished. We have had terrific support from our partners, investors and advisors; and we are lucky to have worked with each of them. Thank you! As a team, we remain passionate about innovating on behalf of our customers. We aim to deliver the most frictionless, seamless transaction experience inside applications and games on every platform. We are thrilled to be part of Google, and we look forward to the exciting road ahead. The game has only just begun. Vikas & Reza Yeah, if by game, you mean war. CrunchBase Information Google Information provided by CrunchBase
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Zynga Hires Former Facebook, MySpace Exec Owen Van Natta
Zynga has hired former Facebook Chief Revenue Officer and MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta as EVP Business, reporting to CEO Mark Pincus . Van Natta was most recently in the news in February, when he stepped down as CEO of MySpace after just less than a year on the job. Van Natta has been an advisor to Zynga until now, says the company. Van Natta will also join the company’s board of directors, joining Pincus, Bing Gordon, Reid Hoffman and Brad Feld. In January, while he was still running MySpace, I sat down with Van Natta in Switzerland for a long video interview . Zynga continues to soft sell the idea of an IPO, saying not to expect one any time soon. But they are clearly putting together an executive team that will take them to that level when they’re ready. In addition to Van Natta they also recently brought on a new CFO, Dave Wehner . Van Natta is considered one of the top deal guys in technology, and has helped scale larger startups operationally. At Zynga he’ll be managing all of business operations, including revenue, corporate development, international, customer service, marketing and communications. He’ll also be reunited with GM Corporate Communications Dani Dudeck . Dudeck, who gave an in depth interview with TechCrunch here, left MySpace to join Zynga shortly after Van Natta stepped down. Fast growing is certainly the only way to describe Zynga these days. Most of their competition has been acquired or otherwise sidelined, and the company is quickly forging business deals with the largest portals to help wean Zynga off their dependence on Facebook. Yahoo and Google are in the bag. And they’ve also been acquiring companies at a brisk pace: XPD Media , Challenge Games and Unoh in just the last few months. Given Van Natta’s appetite for acquisitions, expect more of them, soon. CrunchBase Information Owen Van Natta Zynga MySpace Information provided by CrunchBase
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Warning Stickers For Newspapers
If newspapers came with warning labels, they might look something like the ones Tom Scott came up with. The British “geek comedian” created warning stickers you can print out and put on newspapers (PDF below). They include: Warning : This article is basically just a press release, copied and pasted. Warning : This article contains unsourced, unverified information from Wikipedia Warning : To ensure future interviews with subject, important questions were not asked. Warning : To meet a deadline, this article was plagiarised from another news source. Too bad you can’t stick these on blogs (present one excluded, of course). (Hat tip to Nick Bilton ) View this document on Scribd
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Rage heading to iPhone
id Software impresses QuakeCon audience with technically amazing demo of new FPS MCV is the leading news site for the game industry. Check out our news, press releases and interviews.
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