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Has Facebook reached the end of its hyper-growth or has it just begun – IPO reveals vision for the future

02/03/2012 L. Green

Facebook has filed its IPO to sell its shares on the open market (under the ticker symbol “FB”) and has revealed some hints regarding its intentions for its future in mobile and online payments, and has unveiled some of the information that has previously been carefully guarded regarding the pay received by its executives. American regulations require businesses to share this type of information regarding their internal operations, when they go public. The filing was a massive 200 pages long and a significant amount of it was dedicated to the…

Grid: A real-time augmented reality maze from Sahar Fikouhi

01/03/201201/03/2012 John Montgallo

Augmented reality continues to gain momentum in the gaming world. As the technology has grown more advanced, companies specializing in augmented reality, such as Metaio and Qualcomm, have released tools to help intrepid designers build their own AR experiences. Such is the case with Sahar Fikouhi, a computational designer and architect from London, UK. Fikouhi has developed a new game for the iPhone that plunges players into a world of staggering geometry and tasks them with navigating their way through a virtual maze. The game is called Grid and it…

Game developer adopts augmented reality to take horror games to new heights

12/31/2011 Stephen Vagus

Augmented reality has been getting a lot of attention in the gaming industry in recent years and rightfully so, as the technology can make gaming more dynamic as it can turn the physical world into a digital playground. With a new sleuth of gaming consoles capable of handling augmented reality games, more developers have been setting their sights on the technology. Tecmo Koei, a Japanese game developer known around the world for its popular survival horror games, has announced that it will be using augmented reality to make its new…

Games can now use the new mobile news feed at Facebook as a viral channel

12/25/201111/23/2013 Stephanie Beck

There was a time that game companies at Facebook would draw a broader number of users through the news feeds of the gamers… which distributed the message to non-gamers, and though this channel was cut back, the social media company has now announced that it is using the mobile news feed to test game stories. Until now, game companies have been forced to use paid marketing techniques and actual word of mouth (as opposed to its digital equivalent) in order to grow their user numbers. However, this reinstatement of the…

The older the gamer, the more is spent on virtual products

12/23/201112/23/2011 L. Green

MocoSpace, a mobile gaming community, has released the results of its survey that has shown that the older a person is, the greater the odds that he or she will purchase products in mobile social games, and the more they wills spend on those goods. The report indicated that gamers between the ages of 25 and 35 spend a larger amount of time using their mobile devices to play social games, but that it is the gamers over the age of 45 who spend the greatest amount of money on…