was the first time a smartphone game had broken free of the Best Mobile Game ghetto and moved up into the big leagues. With a reported development cost of about $150,000, the addictive fowl-flinging game is racking up ungodly profits.
“This is the first year that a platform other than the iPhone really matters,” said OpenFeint chief executive Jason Citron. “We think this will be the year of cross-platform games.”
1 month in on the gamification of digitizing Finland's books and participation is already delivering results. 25,000 volunteers completed 2 million tasks, totaling 100,000 minutes or 1700 hours of work in just one month. All volunteers, playing a game, created by a company of only 12 people.
interesting idea for L'Oreal- online location where people can tune in to watch celebs and makeup stars putting on makeup or applying it. could be integrated through an app that turns the screen into a mirror on a laptop with a webcam or iphone4, etc
Data mining in World of Warcraft (sample of 14,400) shows that players fall into different "cliques" of highly predictable (80% accuracy) behavior based on the sort of achievements and activities they like to pursue. The researchers indicate that these lessons could be applied to online retailing as well.
Also confirms my suspicion that there are more lessons to learn in these virtual environments than people want to give them credit for.
Gamestop plans to sell tablets running Android with its own brand across its vast retail network, hoping to entice gamers that tend to prefer iOS with several preloaded games.
While the E-3 "game changer" tag has been reserved largely for innovations such as 3-D and motion-sensor systems, several companies hope using cloud computing to store games will be the real shift by letting gamers play high-end titles anywhere, on almost any machine.
Among active gamers, 21% are aware of Natal/Kinect, and 35% of
those "have definite purchase interest," according to Nielsen
Games. As for Move, 23% are aware of it, and 28% of those have
definite purchase interest.