1Mby1M Deal Radar 2010: i-Jet Media, Silicon Valley, California

i-Jet Media is a social games publisher and social media distribution network. Within the framework of cooperation with social games developers, i-Jet Media examines their games, markets, elaborates on, and adapts games, integrates applications, and provides technical support for users in many world languages.

Starting Successful In The Social Gaming Industry: A Perspective From China

By guest author Cindy Weng Social gaming has shown no signs of slowing down, and there are many who want to capitalize on this multimillion-dollar market. Google, in an effort to offer more socially aware services, recently purchased social entertainment company Slide Inc. for an estimated $200 million. If this price didn’t shock you, maybe

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Deal Radar 2010: PressOK Entertainment

In 2008, as readers will recall, the field of mobile games publishing underwent a dramatic change following the launch of the iPhone and its App Store, which disrupted the relationships between large, entrenched publishers and mobile operators and OEMs. Since that time, operators have launched their own versions app store, opening up their platforms to

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A New Generation of Gaming: Social and Viral (Part 4)

By Guest Author Cindy Weng   Zynga is the king of online social gaming. You may not know the company by its name but rather its games: Texas Hold’em, FarmVille, Mafia Wars, YoVille!, Scramble, and more. Its newest game, Roller Coaster Kingdom, was released only one month ago and already has almost four million users.

A New Generation of Gaming: Social and Viral (Part 2)

By Guest Author Cindy Weng Putting a new spin on an old game is not always easy. However, the Tetris Company has managed to transform the classic video game into something that millions of internet users play daily. What is its secret to keeping up with today’s gaming market and even becoming a leader in

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A New Generation of Gaming: Social and Viral (Part 1)

By Guest Author Cindy Weng Social gaming has, over the past year, been on a tremendous incline in the online world. Flash-based games have popped up as both standalone sites and as applications to larger social networks. Any avid Facebook user can tell you about all the game requests they receive, inviting them to play

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Think Flash Before You Think Big

By Guest Author Saad Fazil Earlier we talked about several platforms on which to showcase your talent (the iPhone, Facebook, Android, Palm Pre, BlackBerry, and MySpace, to name a few). Having so many choices might cause developers to overlook the most obvious platform of all: the World Wide Web, plain HTML, and Flash.

The Fall of Wall Street and The Rise of The Virtual Street

By Guest Author Saad Fazil While the “real” economy has been tumbling for the past two years or so, social applications, online gaming, and the virtual economy have proven to be fairly resilient in the face of the economic slump.