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...April 30, 2021: Dapper Labs, Inc., the company behind NBA Top Shot and the Flow blockchain, today announced US$250M in new funding. Led by Coatue . . ....
...Leading gaming companies Zynga and Applovin have done exactly that....
...Hyper-casual games, Mr Gibeau said, were “the fastest-growing category on mobile” and Rollic is set to bring in 65m new monthly active users into the Zynga network....
...Maybe so: US gaming group Zynga acquired the country’s first unicorn, Peak Games, for $1.85bn, following purchases by Tencent and South Korea's Netmarble....
...“You can’t put Grand Theft Auto V on an iPhone, it’s not the same experience. People were thinking about them like software companies when they should look at them like television and movies.”...
...Last month he hired the former chief executive of sports network ESPN to broadcast video games being played competitively. Movie offshoots are in the works, too....
...The US television network has developed its newest instalment of Star Trek specifically for online access, as it looks to boost viewership on its CBS All Access digital streaming service....
...Why would it not be worth something with a network of more than 100 foreign correspondents and a world class group of commentators and analysts?...
...Zynga, aside from a modestly popular online poker game, has not had a hit since FarmVille. The difference between the companies goes much deeper than poker v matching candies....
...Zynga, the maker of the FarmVille game that initially thrived on Facebook, blamed changes made by the social network for a rapid decline in its fortunes....
...CEO Dara Khosrowshahi and Zynga Inc co-founder Mark Pincus....
...to Nielsen only behind the USA v Portugal game, which 24.7m watched on a Sunday....
...Sitting next to the pool, lemonade in hand, I had two options at game time....
...In the fad- and hit-driven world of casual games, being a ninja on one digital platform does not ensure mastery of another....
...across its network of customers....
...But they have still reached a far higher level than their counterparts at Zynga, a hot games company that boomed on the PC-based web before smartphones took over....
...He’s been in the games business ever since, and on Monday was appointed chief executive of Zynga, the social games company....
...The success of GTA V comes at time of flux for the games industry....
...Here are the first three things the CEO of a traditional company must understand about the digital/social revolution: First; realise that having a social network presence does not make you a social leader...
...Although many Facebook apps, particularly games such as Zynga’s CityVille or dating services such as Zoosk, allow users to buy upgrades and extras once they have installed the app, Facebook does not currently...
...Walking into Zynga’s headquarters in San Francisco is like entering one of the games it develops for social networks. The reception is a log cabin modelled on a virtual building from FrontierVille....
...“If the use of Zynga games on our platform declines, if Zynga launches games on or migrates games to competing platforms, or if we fail to maintain good relations with Zynga, we may lose Zynga as a significant...
...Moshi Monsters, which has notched up 60m players of its virtual-pets-meets-social-network game, has 130 spin-off products, including a Moshi Music album coming out next month....
...such as Zynga’s CityVille....
...Facebook’s ranking of the most popular games on the social network revealed that larger developers such as Walt Disney’s Playdom, Zynga and Electronic Arts are stretching their lead over smaller start-ups...
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