Due to the recent exponential growth in online social gaming, more and more companies are embracing the commercial opportunities within this exciting sector. Indeed, during the last month alone, two major media companies have made acquisitions in this marketplace: Viacom’s MTV Networks has acquired social game developer Social Express and more recently Disney purchased Playdom. […]
Online gaming site Roiworld surveyed 600 teens ages 13 to 17 in late April and found that 43% Social Net Teens have spent money on/in a social network. This study reveals that Games garner most of the Social Net Spending among teens. In fact, they have purchased items such as currency for virtual items in […]
Hi-media Payments, and Allopass, the group’s micropayments service, are sponsors of the “Mondial du Jeu Video” (formerly called World Gaming) on the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th of July 2010 in Disneyland Paris, in France. This international and annual event has between 50,000 and 80,000 visitors and allows people to discover the latest innovations in video games and […]
Hi-media Payments US team will attend this year’s Social Gaming Summit, a one and a half day event focused on the intersection of games and the social web. The event will focus on helping social games developers build, monetize, and grow their social games. On May 6th, the Social Gaming University offers a half-day seminar […]
Hi-media Payments, and Allopass, the group’s micropayments service, are sponsors of the first Web Game Conference, on 29 April at the Léonard de Vinci University Cluster in Paris, France. At the initiative of Owlient, one of the leading European browser game companies with a 10M+ player worldwide community on its games Howrse and Babydow and […]
Allopass US team will attend the Game Developer Conference next week in San Francisco (Moscone Center – March 9-13). GDC is the world’s largest professionals-only game industry event, attracting over 17,000 attendees. Presented every spring in San Francisco, it is the essential forum for learning, inspiration, and networking for the creators of computer, console, handheld, […]
Allopass’s US team will be at Engage Expo in two weeks on Feb 16-17, in NYC! We would love to meet with you so feel free to contact Chris Simamora at [email protected] to schedule a meeting. The Online Games & Virtual Worlds track will be dedicated to user acquisition, engagement and retention, as well as […]
Allopass’s European team will be sponsoring and attending the upcoming Casual Connect Europe event in Hamburg, on February 10-12, 2010. Feel free to contact Gilles Tannugi, at [email protected] to schedule a meeting prior to the event. Casual Connect is the educational component of the Casual Games Association, the international trade association for casual games professionals. […]
