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OpenFeint X – Free-to-Play Virtual Goods based Games

17 February 2010

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Congratulations to Jason & the Aurora Feint crew on launching OpenFeint X - the coolest thing since sliced awesome! Now you can build free-to-play iPhone games just like the ones on Facebook with virtual goods, micro-transactions,  millions of players and all that stuff! Aurora Feint rocks the iPhone games market once again. If you are [...]

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CrowdStar’s Happy Aquarium & Happy Pets

16 November 2009

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Big congratulations to the CrowdStar team on the successfully launch of Happy Pets, yet another great social game on Facebook.  In just a week Happy Pets went from 0 to 890,000 Monthly active users. Amazing.  Following Happy Aquarium’s tremendous success not long ago, this is just shows that it wasn’t a one off only. Keep a close eye on [...]

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DeNA invests in AuroraFeint

3 November 2009

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I’m very excited to announce that the Japanese gaming company DeNA has made a strategic investment in AuroraFeint, makers of the social gaming platform for iphone games – OpenFeint. DeNA has taken a 20% stake in the company and is going to play an important part in AuroraFeint’s international expansion. Aurora Feint is on a roll, [...]

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Upcoming speaking engagements

12 October 2009

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Innovation Day 2009 Berlin Oct 29 I’m going to be a Panelist at Deutsche Telekom’s Innovation Day 2009 in Berlin on Oct 29, together with Julie Meyer (Adriane Capital)  Aza Raskin (Mozilla) Norbert Bolz,  and Christopher Schläffer (Head of Innovation & Products, Deutsche Telekom. The panel will be moderated by Bruno Giussani, Director of TED Conferences [...]

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China bans foreign investment in Online games industry

12 October 2009

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This is very disappointing for many foreign investors eyeing the Chinese Online games industry. General Administration of Press and Publication (GAPP) issued a an order on Saturday prohibiting foreign investment in domestic online gaming operations through joint ventures, wholly owned enterprise. GAPP ever goes so far as to prohibit foreign firms from indirectly influencing Chinese [...]

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Digital Chocolate to use OpenFeint

8 October 2009

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Digital Chocolate, one of the most frequent publishers of iphone games is going to use OpenFeint for scoreboards and achievements. This is a huge win for OpenFeint, that already has more than 3 million active users on its platform and more than 200 games in the app store. I have covered OpenFeint several times before [...]

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