Posts Tagged ‘myspace poker chips’
Man in Saudi Arabia spends over $25,000 on virtual items like facebook poker chips.
"Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time to spend that money on anything you want" Insidesocialgames.com recently reported on the phenomenon of social gaming "whales", or rather players who spend over $1000 buying virtual items like farmville cash and facebook poker chips in online games. Much like the well known "whales" of Las [...]
Digital Drugs: How Facebook poker chips and other virtual currencies are transforming addictions
However, in place of cocaine are crack, these dealers are distributing Facebook poker chips, Farmville coins, and Mafia Wars or World of Warcraft Gold and other coveted virtual goods and currencies to their loyal buyers. Instead of an artificial drug induced high, players are rewarded with surges in endorphins and [...]
Mickey Mouse joins Facebook Poker Games as Disney buys Playdom for $560 million
Disney acquires Playdom for $560 million In the largest social gaming deal since Electronic Arts bought Playfish, this week entertainment goliath Disney purchased Playdom, the creator of games such as Mobsters, Facebook Poker Palace, Tiki Farm, and Sorority Life for social networking sites like Facebook and Myspace. Does this mean Mickey Mouse [...]
Games.com and AOL roll out their own facebook poker chips
While other games rise, peak and fall, one game braves through the storm of social gaming fickleness: Facebook Texas Holdem Poker. People love their facebook poker chips in Zynga, Playfish, and Playdom poker games and AOL and Games.com have finally taken notice and decided to introduce their own facebook poker application for texas holdem [...]
From Facebook poker chips to Farmville coins: how virtual goods have grown in 3 years
Back in 2007 when nobody knew what a Farmville chicken coop or a facebook poker chip was, social games on networks like Facebook and MySpace were just peeking their collective heads from out behind the stone. The biggest applications were still viral garbage like "which simpsons character are you". Fast forward 3 years and social gaming is [...]
Why the popularity of simple games like farmville and facebook poker has veteran developers excited
Some say the explosive growth of simple and relatively easy to produce games like Facebook Texas Holdem Poker, Farmville, Fishville and Mafia Wars might be interpreted as bad news by established console game developers who routinely spend tens of millions of dollars and many years producing big titles. But employees at mega companies like Lucas [...]
Myspace looking to social games to regain prominence
Once the King of the Hill in the social networking scene, MySpace is now looking to regain some of that popularity by using social games the way that Facebook has to gain users. Exclusive games like Farmville that are played only on Facebook, with over 80 million users, have helped to rocket Facebook's numbers to over 400 million users [...]
South Korea rules that virtual currencies like facebook poker chips can be exchanged for real money
The South Korean Supreme Court made a ruling last month that virtual currencies in digital worlds was legally exchangable for real world currency. They also noted that transactions of this type would be taxed as normal income. This type of taxation would have huge implications for game maker Zynga, which is reportedly on track to earn [...]
