Check out the top headlines and insights this week from Inside Social Games – tracking all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms.
Monday, June 28th, 2010
- Sims, Strategy and Sports All Appear on This Week’s List of Fastest-Growing Facebook Games by MAU
- Plimus Enters the Payment Platform Wars With In-Game Purchases
- Vector Takes an Interesting Approach to Facebook Farming with Fantasy Book
- Mafia Wars Movie Rumor Not True, But Also Not Improbable
- Preview: Ubisoft Goes Fantasy City-Building with The Settlers
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
- Educational Social Games Spread on Social Platforms
- FarmVille’s iPhone App Reveals Heavy Spenders
- Mixpanel: Social Game Developers Use Tutorials to Get Crucial Early Retention
- CrowdStar Signs Five Year Deal with Facebook, Making Credits Its Exclusvie Currency
- Kontagent Raises Over Million More for Facebook Analytics
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
- Lucky Train Gives Facebook Gamers a Railroad Set to Play With
- Pet Resort: A Branded Facebook Simulation Game from Playdom and Purina
- The Best Facebook Games of 2010
- India’s Facebook Penetration Is Actually Good – But Mobile is More Exciting
- MyTown Begins Giving Away Facebook Credits to Location-Based Gamers
Thursday, July 1st, 2010
- Zynga Recovers Some DAU on This Week’s List of Top Growers
- Backyard Monsters Brings Traditional Strategy Elements to Facebook
- New Hires in Social Gaming: Playfish, Playdom, Slide, & More
- Top 25 MySpace Games for July 2010
- Top 25 Facebook Games for July 2010
- In Social Games, the Whales Are Pretty Monogamous
Friday, July 2nd, 2010
- Every Genre Reaches This Week’s List of Emerging Facebook Games
- Another Facebook Game from Ubisoft: Classic Word Games
- It’s All Money: Virtual Currency Inspires Online Workers as Much as the Real Thing
- Social Gaming Roundup: OpenFeint, gWallet, Sega, & More
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