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2012-02-06

Meteor Games to publish high-end online game Hawken in December (exclusive) - VentureBeat

2012-02-06

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Meteor Games to publish high-end online game Hawken in December (exclusive)
VentureBeat
The title looks beautiful and it has been in the works for more than a year, and it is one of the first in what could be a wave of web-based games with stunning visuals. The company is betting that the combination of outstanding visuals and the ...
Adhesive announces mech shooter Hawken landing on 12/12/12Strategy Informer (press release)
Hawken brings pretty multiplayer mech battles to the web Dec. 12Joystiq
Multiplayer Mech Title Hawken Is Coming This December And Will Be Free To PlayDeviceMAG

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Changyou.com Q4 Profit Up; Guides Q1 - Quick Facts - NASDAQ

2012-02-06

Changyou.com Q4 Profit Up; Guides Q1 - Quick Facts
NASDAQ
Excluding revenues from the recently acquired game information portal operated through the 17173.com Website, total revenues increased 37% year-over-year. Aggregate peak concurrent users for the company's games, excluding 7Road's Web-based game, ...
Changyou.com Limited Earnings: Beats EstimatesWall St. Cheat Sheet
Changyou Reports Fourth Quarter 2011 and Fiscal Year 2011 Unaudited Financial ...MarketWatch (press release)

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The PopSci Flash Arcade - Popular Science

2012-02-06

The PopSci Flash Arcade
Popular Science
In our first feature this week, Kill Screen's Felipe Salgado pulls together five web-based Flash games (all playable right here) that showcase this new creativity. On November 8th, 2011, Activision released the latest entry in the popular Call of Duty ...


Weibo Platform Boosts Tudou as Web Gamers Climb: China Overnight - BusinessWeek

2012-02-06

Weibo Platform Boosts Tudou as Web Gamers Climb: China Overnight
BusinessWeek
Shanda's stock trades at 4.5 times its estimated cash flow for 2012, according to data compiled by Bloomberg, while the multiple is 3.4 for Perfect World, a Beijing-based online game developer. Perfect World advanced 6.1 percent to $12.20, ...

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Sohu Profit Falls as Acquisition Costs Erode Higher Web Sales - BusinessWeek

2012-02-06

Sohu Profit Falls as Acquisition Costs Erode Higher Web Sales
BusinessWeek
... incurred a charge from acquisitions, eroding higher advertising and games sales. Fourth-quarter net income was $25 million, or 65 cents a share, from $41.5 million, or $1.07, a year earlier, the Beijing-based company said in a statement today.
Sohu.com Reports Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2011 Unaudited Financial ResultsMarketWatch (press release)
Emerging Markets Week Ahead: Don't Fight the TrendNASDAQ

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Konami Casino Management System Partners with JOINGO(R) to Provide Player ... - MarketWatch (press release)

2012-02-06

Konami Casino Management System Partners with JOINGO(R) to Provide Player ...
MarketWatch (press release)
LAS VEGAS, Feb 06, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Konami Gaming, Inc., a leading gaming technology provider, has formed a partnership with JOINGO(R), a mobile and social technology company, to provide the Konami Casino Management System (KCMS) Patron App. The ...

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Oh My Tech: How to play Facebook games on your tablet - Salt Lake Tribune

2012-02-05

Oh My Tech: How to play Facebook games on your tablet
Salt Lake Tribune
You can then turn on your web browser on your computer and play Facebook games. The advantage with this over other cloud-based apps is you have a better, closer connection to your computer, leading to a clearer image on your mobile device with little ...


Carly and Sam Dish Out the Fun in iCarly(TM): Groovy Foodie!, the Hilarious ... - MarketWatch (press release)

2012-02-06

Carly and Sam Dish Out the Fun in iCarly(TM): Groovy Foodie!, the Hilarious ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The game is based on iCarly, Nickelodeon's top-rated live-action series for kids and tweens. iCarly: Groovy Foodie!, available this summer exclusively for the Nintendo DS(TM) family of hand-held systems, offers highly addictive gameplay where fans ...

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AutoTrader.com Says Hyundai, Fiat Join New York Giants As Big Winners In Super ... - The Big Lead

2012-02-06

AutoTrader.com Says Hyundai, Fiat Join New York Giants As Big Winners In Super ...
The Big Lead
The Atlanta-based company tracked visits to its Web site during the Super Bowl as car commercials hit the NBC airwaves. Among the winners: Hyundai and Fiat. Among the also-rans: Kia and Cadillac. “There was a flood of hype around the auto ads that ran ...

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Local programmer earns web-wide recognition - Battle Creek Enquirer

2012-02-02

Local programmer earns web-wide recognition
Battle Creek Enquirer
However, for entertainment made with the Flash programming language, people can play quality games within their web browser. Recently, the popular video game website Kotaku shared what they felt were the best six web-based games, and "Gyossait" was one ...

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WanderPlayer Turns Your Phone Into A Controller For Flash Games

2012-02-05
Android/iPhone and Windows/Mac: Many Flash-based games work better with a retro controller than a keyboard and mouse. The free app WanderPlayer turns your iPhone or Android phone into a controller that already works with 100 popular web games right now with more on the way. The games vary from Classic Mario to Cannonball (via AOL Kids) to Robot Unicorn (via Adult Swim). Many are retro-styled sid ...

WanderPlayer Turns Your Smartphone Into a Controller for Flash Games [Video]

2012-02-05
# downloads Android/iPhone and Windows/Mac: Many Flash-based games would work better with a retro controller than a keyboard and mouse. The free app WanderPlayer turns your iPhone or Android phone into a controller that already works with 100 popular web games right now with more on the way. More »

Weibo Platform Boosts Tudou as Web Gamers Climb: China Overnight

2012-02-05
Tudou Holdings Ltd. surged the most ever in New York, driving an index of U.S.-traded Chinese stocks to a seventh weekly gain, after the company announced an improved video platform with Weibo, a Twitter-like service with 250 million users.

CincyTech Invests in Recent Brandery Graduate

2012-01-30
CINCINNATI, OH-- - Choremonster , a Web-based service and mobile app that lets parents and children interact to complete and enjoy chores, has received a $200,000 investment from CincyTech .The investments ...

UK's Science Museum to teach teens with new retro-themed web games

2012-01-31
Newsbrief: In a new effort to teach teens about science and technology, the UK-based Science Museum has commissioned a series of free, retro-themed web games for its official website. The games suite, dubbed Futurecade, includes four games that aim to teach players about current and future technology in a number of scientific fields, with topics ranging from bacteria engineering, protecting ...

Crysis Developer Looking To Make Social, Casual, Browser Games

2012-01-30
Crytek hiring staff for 'browser based' games. Crysis developer Crytek is set to develop casual and social games for web browsers, according to a new job vacancy for a game designer , although core experiences will also form part of its browser-based games strategy. "Crytek is looking for a Game Designer who will be responsible for designing browser based casual, social and/or core games ...

Sohu.com Reports Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2011 Unaudited Financial Results

2012-02-06
BEIJING, Feb. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Sohu.com Inc. (NASDAQ: SOHU - News), China's leading online media, search, gaming, community and mobile service group, today reported unaudited financial results for ...

Lionsgate and Funtactix Announce THE HUNGER GAMES ADVENTURES

2012-02-01
Funtactix, a worldwide developer and publisher of social games based on the world’s premiere entertainment brands, in partnership with Lionsgate , a leading global entertainment company, today announced that THE HUNGER GAMES ADVENTURES will launch day and date with the highly anticipated film adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ runaway bestselling novel on March 23rd, 2012.

Shooter-friendly mouse lock implemented in JavaScript

2012-01-31
Over the past year, the performance of our favorite Web browsers has increased dramatically. HTML and JavaScript engines are faster than ever, and hardware accelerated rendering is now a standard feature. Other advances like WebGL and Native Client have opened up new possibilities for not just web apps, but for browser-based games, too. Full-on gaming [...]

The state of browser gaming – HTML5 vs. Flash [Infographic]

2012-01-31
We’ve always had browser based games and they were typically done with Flash from Adobe; and also for the most part pretty simple type games but with the advent of Facebook, social media and companies such as Zynga browser based games have taken on a whole new look. To further complicate matters there has been [...] The state of browser gaming – HTML5 vs. Flash [Infographic] is a post from: The ...