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Social games and mobile apps developer Apps Genius has annonced a distribution agreement with Wizard World, which will expand its market for future distribution of apps and games.

i-Jet Media presented i-Jet Connect, a new generation technological solution for developers of social games. i-Jet Media announced i-Jet Connect at the Social Games Summit at GDC Europe.

Popular Game Company’s fourth office to focus exclusively on Mobile and HTML 5 Development

New poll shows American Idol viewers in the tween age range (8-12 years old) have two contestants in a close tie for top place.

ClipClash has launched a new version of its video social game, enabling its growing community to build their fantasy broadcast channels with a mix of program genres in addition to the music videos they currently enjoy.

Securenet Systems and Allworks Media recently launched Promusic.fm, a music and social gaming platform offering free streaming music, new artist promotion, and a place to discover new artists.

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Socialspiel, a new social gaming startup, today announced the launch of their competitive board game Push on hi5. With today’s launch, the game is now available to the millions of players on one of the world’s largest social entertainment sites.

Socialspiel, a new Vienna based social games development studio founded by game industry veterans, today announced a new Ranked Match feature in their September released title Push on Facebook.

Making award winning virtual words is not exactly easy. I is almost rocket science. But now we built the science kit, and it is called "ISO MOVeS". Software that makes things like massive multiplayer games, virtual words, MMORPGs and social games.

New game allows players to improve their luck, and instantly win cash prizes or in-game currency

PaymentOne, a global leader in phone-enabled payments for publishers and digital merchants, will be speaking at CTIA Wireless 2010, October 6th-8th in San Francisco, CA. Topics to include the exploding mobile commerce industry.

The game City Gangs was published on social network Netlog. This is the fourth application launched by i-Jet Media on Netlog. City Gangs is among the most highly profittable games among the ones the company is working with at the moment.

Doubloon and Rocketeer Games announce of the the first ever real time action games on Facebook: Red Crucible.

Popular Facebook® game breaks new ground by allowing players to win real Monday Night Football game tickets

i-Jet Media launched two new game projects, AirPort and Crazy Cars, on studiVZ, schuelerVZ and meinVZ, and it took only three months for i-Jet Media to become one of the larger suppliers of gaming applications for German social networks.

PaymentOne, a global leader in phone-enabled payments for publishers and digital merchants, today announced AnyPhone®, a powerful network of new payment services that provide simple and secure options for online and mobile consumers.

IMVU adds lucrative games via partnerships with Viximo, Heyzap and OMGPOP

PaymentOne, a global leader in phone-enabled payments for publishers and digital merchants, announces Joe Lynam, CEO and Founder of PaymentOne will be speaking at the Engage! Conference and Expo.

PaymentOne, a global leader in phone-enabled payments for publishers and digital merchants, announces Brad Singer,EVP of PaymentOne will be speaking at The NY Games Conference.

Developed by Arkadium and spearheaded by the Jets, Ultimate Fan is the first revenue-generating social sports game introduced by an NFL team

i-Jet Media launches the most expensive social game ever produced in Russia, Pet a Pet, which has been published in social network Odnoklassniki. The game uses a game monetization model and is the first social game in highly realistc 3D.

Doubloon, provider of the first virtual goods pricing optimization platform for gaming companies, announced today its integration with new Facebook game, Inheritance.

Former Rockstar Games developers go small and social in Vienna, Austria

Digital media M&A activity totaled 564 transactions for a reported $9.0 billion in 1H10, up 68% and 117% from 1H09.

Leading NY based developer opens a sales office in Los Angeles and adds new staff members to focus on expanding goals

Fantasy Kingdoms, the flagship game of Sneaky Games (www.sneakygames.com), has attracted more than 350,000 users since it was introduced late spring, making it one of the fastest growing social games.

Game Karmic opens shop in NYC to help game developers outsource better having successfully raise enough capital, they plan to invest in 4-5 casual games over the next year to developers make some causal games through Indie Game Development Fund.

Leading online social destination for teens, Scallyroo.com, unveiled a gaming platform that they hope will shift the online gaming landscape.

Online games portal dives into social gaming with five new titles.

Casual game developer’s first foray into social games hits milestone in two months; 300 additional games to follow

Platogo , a social games platform , has released its a Wrapper that enables casual games developers to easily integrate their games with Facebook.

Recent news in the social gaming world was that, Mingleplay.com, one of the newest social game developers have succeeded in acquiring funds from private angel investment.

Global new-media production company, SiXiTS announces its formation with the opening of its first U.S. based office in California. Announces private beta partnership to produce and develop social games using the Sibblingz Social Gaming Framework.

Award-winning title comes to Facebook® Platform

Wargods Online has grown and expanded in its first year. The twelve month celebration acknowledges the social gamers who have joined the battle, and offers them several new features

Wargods Online, a popular online social game, introduces new special features focusing on visual gameplay and player vs. player skill for the 10 month celebration

Hospital Town is a medical themed game that provides a refreshing change to the farming genre on Facebook. Hire your friends as doctors and treat friends as patients as you build your very own hospital.

Casual gaming and the creative dynamism of social networking are finally united at Platogo. Gamers now have a free-to-use platform with simple yet catchy games they can play, create levels for and share, whereas developers have revenue opportunities.

Now that millions of people have gone crazy for the incredibly popular Facebook game Farmville, cheating is on the rise and that could mean trouble.

The Seattle Social Games Meetup brings together the best developers, designers and entrepreneurs in the social, casual and MMORPG games space!

140Blood.com is a series of new Twitter-based RPG games set in an epic fantasy world. Players log in with their Twitter accounts and can team up with their followers to adventure the world together.

JULY 8, 2009 –King.com world’s largest online skill games company, has introduced a series of significant new features.