by Joe Osborne Nov 30th, 2011 1:45 PM
You'd think gunning for a sweet $1 billion and the top spot among video games' largest publishers would be fun. Well, not for FarmVille maker ...
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Tags: industrygamers, initial public offering, ipo, metrics, reuters, Strauss-Zelnick, take-two, Take-Two-Interactive, zynga, zynga initial public offering, zynga ipo, zynga metrics
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by Joe Osborne Mar 31st, 2011 11:55 AM
[T]he numbers give us an idea of roughly what kind of feature to do because there are some kinds of features that are more likely to drive ...
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Tags: 1up, brian reynolds, Facebook games, FarmVille, frontierville, game design, industrygamers, Jonathan Blow, Metric, metrics, quote of the moment, social games, zynga
by Kyle Orland Sep 9th, 2010 3:45 PM
Social game developers are often criticized for focusing on "player metrics" -- gameplay data culled from actual player experience that's used to ...
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Tags: bioware, data, mass effect 2, MassEffect2, me2, metrics, minig, player, player data, PlayerData, stats
by Kyle Orland Aug 31st, 2010 3:45 PM
New data from Facebook app tracker AppData this week shows that Playdom has edged out competitor Crowdstar to become the third-largest developer ...
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Tags: appdata, crowdstar, facebook, happy aquairum, HappyAquairum, metrics, million, playdom, statistics, third place, ThirdPlace
by James Murff Dec 1st, 2009 4:00 PM
ISG has compiled a list of the top 25 social games on Facebook according to user counts, and Zynga is unsurprisingly dominating the list. Out ...
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Tags: bejeweled-blitz, country-story, facebook, farmville, mafia-wars, metrics, mobsters-2-vendetta, pet-society, playfish, restaurant-city, texas-hold-em-poker, zynga
