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Mark Jacobs of Camelot Unchained Speaks on the Coming Free-to-Play MMO Apocalypse
Massively multiplayer online games (MMOs) are currently in the throws of a highly disruptive market niche change: one that shifts publishers and developers attention from gathering money from users via subscriptions to one that monetizes free games much like how mobile survives. The standard for subscription seems to be dwindling with towering giants like World ...
Bitcoin Exchange MtGox CEO Mark Karpeles Responds to Questions About What Happened This Week
After reaching a euphoric high in value of $266 USD per on Wednesday, Bitcoin suffered a massive tumble from that airy perch and MtGox seemed to be at the center of the troubles. Wednesday day and evening the exchange suffered massive bouts of lag and then finally went offline, the company behind the exchange announced ...
Coinsetter the Newest Bitcoin Forex Seeks a Niche in the Wild Market
Yesterday, Coinsetter, a brand new forex for Bitcoin announced that it had raised $500,000 in seed capital. The New-York based startup seeks to bring to market advanced trading options that don’t exist in the current BTC market. The Bitcoin exchange market is already fairly well fitted with numerous exchanges including the extremely popular MtGox, which ...
The Social Failure of Syfy Channel and Trion Worlds MMO Defiance
It’s been a week since Syfy Channel and Trion Worlds released the much-hyped massively multiplayer online game Defiance for Xbox, PS3, and PC. As an MMO, it’s nothing new to the sphere of shooters that are also role playing games, what makes it different is that the game is connected to a Syfy Channel exclusive ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2013 April 10: Bitcoin Value Reaches $250 USD; SimpliSafe Home Security Accepts Bitcoins; and Heyzap Adds Bitcoin for Game Devs
Bitcoin has seen a surprising amount of attention lately between talking heads appearing on economics shows, Bloomberg, and Financial Times, but what’s really going to drive bitcoin’s attachment in the marketplace isn’t what analysts say about it: it’s how people use it. So this Bitcoin Weekly is dedicated to news about how people intend to ...
Bitcoin Value Exceeds $200: Who is a BTC Millionaire Now?
The market for bitcoins has been seeing a surprising amount of attention lately and it is now in the throes of a meteoric rise—as a result, popular media talking heads have come out of the woodwork and none too few who bought into the currency when it was young can now reap amazing rewards. Today, ...
Fortumo Brings Mobile Payments to Mobile Game Developers to Broaden Audience to China, Brazil
Mobile phones have become ubiquitous for the on-the-go-user as well as the on-the-go gamer, and as a result developers have been aiming for iOS and Android to give them an “in” to the market of all these people with computers in their pockets. When it comes to monetizing apps, developers want to be able to ...
Bitcoin’s Big Week: Value Reaches $140; BitcoinStore Sells $500,000; BitPay Hits $5.2M for March
Bitcoin had an extremely exciting month of March with the explosive growth of the value of the cryptocurrency—with it approaching and exceeding $140 in early April—and there’s so much news that there’s just not enough time to cover it in individual articles. Not to mention that March represented the first ever near-crisis for Bitcoin when ...
Local Governments Can Now Accept Bitcoin with E-Gov Link
Municipalities who use the e-government suite of tools from E-Gov Link can now accept Bitcoin as payment for numerous city services including permits, utilities, class or event registration, shelter reservations, or even parking tickets. According to E-Gov already 60% of the states have cities that use their technology to offer connection to the public (the ...
Possible Facebook.com Service Disruption (Update: It’s back!)
It appears that Facebook.com is offline right now with a likely service disruption. Both Down Right Now and Down For Everyone Or Just Me? suggest that the social media giant is offline and has been for a little while now. No news available currently as to what is causing the service disruption. There have been a ...