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My Best Estimate for the Size of the Virtual Goods Market in the United States
Over the past week or so, a number of people have asked me if there is any good data that one could use to estimate the size of the virtual goods market in the United States for 2008. I haven’t seen too many published estimates that make sense to me, so I thought I would start working through the exercise of coming up with an estimate of my own. For those of you who are short on time, I’ll save you the need to read the entire post - my guess is that the virtual goods economy in the United Sta

What brand of gift card is best to give a teen for online purchases of music and games?
Pam H. asked: Do you know of any deals, or the best places to get a card my teen can use online to buy games on Yahoo, subscribe to sites like puzzle pirates, or get music on Rhapsody; my local bank has a fee? And, would you do Visa, or AmEx? I am interested [...]

Predicting player figures for any online game or MMO
Now that I no longer work for a large MMO publisher, I no longer have access to all the juicy numerical goodness, research, and stats that they had on their games and everyone else’s. A chance email recently suggesting I take a look at Xfire’s gamestats led to some quick experiments that came out surprisingly well. It’s given me a new predictor for player numbers for any MMO that’s available in English which is sufficiently accurate that I’m going to use it going forwards. Take it or leave it :

Deux nouveaux casual MMO : zOMG et Whirled
Grosse actualité la semaine dernière avec le lancement de deux casual MMO (qui mélangent casual games, avatars et quêtes). La particularité est que ces deux nouveaux univers sont lancés par de gros acteurs.zOMG tout d’abord qui est un spin-off deGaia Online. Ce pseudo-univers virtuel a nécessité plus de 2 ans de développement et vient tout juste de rentrer dans une phase beta. Pseudo ? Oui car autant ce MMO repose sur un système de personnage à faire évoluer au travers de quêtes et collect

Flash Animators Invited to New Whirled
The gang at Three Rings Design (puzzle pirates), has launched a new web-based Flash gaming environment. News like this wouldn’t typically find it’s way to ColdHardFlash, but Whirled, which has been described as “Flash Second Life,” invites animators to upload their creations in the form of avatars and games. My pal Bill Robinson was amongst the artists who helped design what you’ll see in Whirled, and he just passed along this Flash-animated video directed and animated by Brittney Lee that prom

Jogos no browser
Os criadores de um dos mais famosos jogos online para browsers, o puzzle pirates, lançaram recentemente o Whirled, um jogo baseado num universo persistente online, cujas ferramentas de desenvolvimento foram disponibilizadas como código livre, de modo a que qualquer programador possa contribuir para o Whirled, ou para desenvolver os seus próprios jogos e possivelmente alojá-los nos servidores disponibilizados pela GardenGames.Uma vez que a linguagem de programação utilizada nestes jogos é o Ja

Gaming Roundup: Ubisoft/Massive Entertainment; Whirled Launches; Rock Band's $300+ Million Payout
Gaming Roundup: Ubisoft/Massive Entertainment; Whirled Launches; Rock Band’s $300+ Million PayoutBy Tameka Kee - Tue 11 Nov 2008 02:29 PM PST-- Ubisoft gobbles up Massive Entertainment: French videogame developer and publisher Ubisoft acquired Massive Entertainment, the Swedish studio behind the World In Conflict strategy series. Ubisoft bought Massive, which employs more than 120 developers, from Activision (NSDQ: ATVI) Blizzard for an undisclosed sum. The gaming company posted a solid Q

Flash or Java - Which One Should I Use?
One of the most frequent questions I get is whether to build games in Java or Flash. It's a debate that's been going for some time. The early entrants into the casual games biz opted for Java, which overall was a better language for quality game development. Back then, Flash was pretty terrible for game development.Since then, Flash has improved significantly with the most recent version Flash 10 offering improved 3D support (whether it's any good for 3D games, you'll have to tell me, I haven'

Whirled Officially Launched; Three Rings Giving Away Buckets of Cash and Code
It was way back in April that we took a trip around Whirled, the new user-created playground from Three Rings Design. Like so many virtual worlds before it, Whirled offers players the chance to explore a quirky landscape filled with the avatars, toys, and games of their creative peers, trading a little of their cash for the ability to decorate and customize their little corner of the MMOG. Unlike their predecessors, though, Whirled is flash-based and browser-operated, cleverly removing all barr

Three Rings Launches Whirled
Three Rings announced today that Whirled was "open for business." The user-generated virtual world offered content creation tools when it opened for beta in March and now features more options as well as monetization tools for developers and users. Users...