Quote of the Moment: Schedule Accordingly

“Oh yeah. Remember, I’m unemployed.

How free and social games are changing everything

“Every industry that becomes digital eventually becomes free.” At the Game Developers Conference today, Playfish co-founder and CEO Kristan Segerstrale examined how the final implications of this quote, from Wired editor Chris Anderson, are changing the game industry. Far from being a threat to gaming, Segerstrale sees the move towards free social games as the key to unlocking explosive growth. This change does require looking at the industry in a different way, though

Them’s fightin’ words: Hi5 prez calls Zynga games ‘mediocre’

Outspoken Hi5 President Alex St. John put the smackdown on Zynga today during a talk at the 2010 Game Developer Conference in San Francisco, calling the popular social gaming outfit ‘mediocre’ and a ‘company that has primarily just found a new way to spam people.’ Them’s fighting words, especially as the social network is making big moves to ramp up its status as a gaming platform, going so far as to dub itself “the largest social entertainment site focused on gaming.” A quick peek on the official Zynga site shows that neither FarmVille, Mafia Wars nor any other Zynga games currently reside on Hi5 — and based on these comments from Alex St

MySpace launches new game hub, iPhone app

If you’re a MySpace gamer, the #2 most popular social network it trying to enhance your game experience with a new games hub. Much like new Facebook games hub that launched a few weeks ago, this pace is designed to help players discover new social games, as well as keep track of notifications related to the games you’re playing

Report provides detailed look at social game invites, players

Turning a new social game into a viral hit is a complicated process and one that’s worth a lot of money to developers. It’s also a mysterious process that’s still not that well understood

Playdom Acquires Super Farkle Creator Offbeat Creations

The companies behind Facebook gaming hits Tiki Farm and Super Farkle are now one and the same, as Facebook mega-publisher Playdom announced their purchase of Offbeat Creations, Inc. yesterday. “With this acquisition we are bringing a talented new game studio into the Playdom family with a very exciting game pipeline,” said John Pleasants, CEO of Playdom in a press release announcing the merger

BREAKING NEWS – MySpace Founder Acquires Mindjolt.com

More big news coming out of the social games market – Mindjolt has been acquired by MySpace founder Chris DeWolfe’s company, Platform G. MindJolt.com is not just a games website.

Breaking News! Playdom launches Social City

Playdom launches its own city-building game — which seems to be a new theme for Facebook games. We’ll have more in-depth details soon, but in the meantime, you can check out Inside Social Games’ write-up .

Breaking News! Playdom launches Social City

Playdom launches its own city-building game — which seems to be a new theme for Facebook games. We’ll have more in-depth details soon, but in the meantime, you can check out Inside Social Games’ write-up . One quick thought — How long until Zynga launches its own city building game?

Nintendo: Sorry, no Mario and Zelda on Facebook

Game publishers from EA to Take Two to Ubisoft may be bringing their franchises over to Facebook, but there’s at least one big-name publisher that isn’t eager to make the jump to the social network.

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