by Electronic Arts
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(29)Release Date: June 14, 2011
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by Electronic Arts
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Xbox 360(29)Release Date: June 14, 2011
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by UBI Soft
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Xbox 360(25)Release Date: June 14, 2011
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by Sony
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(13)Release Date: May 31, 2011
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by Warner Bros
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by UBI Soft
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Facebook scored another win in the ongoing suit with fraudster Paul Ceglia.
Ceglia, the man who filed suit one year ago claiming 84 percent of Facebook, has been ordered by a judge to give the social networking site access to emails and contracts housed on his computer, which will also undergo a forensics examination.
Facebook hopes the evidence will prove Ceglia has forged other things in the past, which suggests that he might have made up portions of this claim, if not all of it.
It all started during Mark Zuckerberg’s freshman year at Harvard University. Both sides agree that Ceglia approached Zuckerberg to work on his StreetFax.com project, in April 2003. Facebook claims neither the company name nor Zuckerberg’s appear in the contract. And Facebook wasn’t conceived until 2004.
Facebook also claims that the materials Ceglia put forth to prove his case are fraudulent. The magistrate judge granted Ceglia’s team access to about 176 emails between the two men from Zuckerberg’s Harvard account. Ceglia had initially requested materials, such as instant messages and emails, dating back as far as 2004.
In court papers, Facebook’s lawyers have called Ceglia “a career scam artist.” Ceglia’s lawyers said in court papers that he showed no deception on a June 11 polygraph test in which he was asked if he’d forged or doctored the contract. Facebook is discounting the polygraph results.
This latest news comes just two days after Ceglia was “fired” by his own attorneys for the third time. DLA Pipe quit the case after less than three months on the job, effectively stripping a great deal of credibility from his suit; the newest representation, Jeffrey Lake of San Diego, has a checkered past and currently defends 200 medical marijuana providers against law enforcement and the government.
After all that, today’s ruling in favor of Facebook seems to bode well for the social network’s plans to argue that Ceglia forged evidence. Like the Associated Press reported:
A federal judge Thursday granted Facebook’s request for expedited access to the materials, giving Ceglia of Wellsville until July 15 to produce
them.Ceglia will in turn gain access to relevant emails from Zuckerberg’s Harvard University account.
Ceglia contends he has a signed agreement that proves he bought into Zuckerberg’s Facebook idea when he hired Zuckerberg to work on another project when Zuckerberg was a Harvard freshman in 2003.
The Palo Alto, Calif., company contends that agreement is a forgery.
Readers, what impact do you think the judge’s decision will have on the case?
Source: All Facebook
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PlayStation 3(13)Buy new: $299.99
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by Activision Publishing
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Way back in October of 2010, Microsoft slipped up and posted an Angry Birds icon on the Windows Phone 7 site. At that time, Rovio was still playing its cards close to its chest, and was hoping to keep its plans to port the uber-popular casual game to WP7 hush-hush until it was ready to [...]
Source: Geek.com Games
Games portals on Facebook have found varying degrees of success depending on accessibility and marketing, but leading portal GSN has been fairly quiet this year while its competitors raise funding and announce cross-platform plans. Today, the developer shares its mobile aspirations and long-term plans for its Games platform.
When we last checked in with GSN in fall of 2010, the developer had rapidly grown to 8 million monthly active users and 1.4 million daily active users in just a handful of months. That growth has continued at a more gradual pace in the last six months, bringing GSN to present-day levels of 9.9 million MAU and 2 million DAU across all 10 of its Facebook applications. The GSN Games portal makes up more than two thirds of that traffic with Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy combined making up most of the remainder.
Davin Miyoshi, Vice President of Social Games at GSN, attributes part of this growth to implementing Facebook Credits as an embedded payment method. “We’ve seen on the scale of three times increase in the percentage of users that pay us,” he says. “We’ve also seen revenue growth, but obviously not all of that can be attributed to Facebook… but in that same time period [that we introduced Credits], we’ve seen revenue grow about 40%.”
Another contributing factor to overall growth Miyoshi names is adding more games to the Games portal and optimizing the overall portal experience. Though the standalone Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy games are still supported by GSN as part of a partnership with Sony Pictures, the plan is to move away from developing standalone games and instead bring more games to the games portal.
“We’re not looking to be a platform so much as a cultivated community,” Miyoshi says. “We want to provide an experience to the end user that’s much more controlled — but we are looking for high quality games for the platform. We’d pay for the right game and they’d potentially make more money with us than they would with platforms like MindJolt.”
Comparisons to the MindJolt games portal on Facebook are inevitable, but to hear Miyoshi tell it, the two are actually after different goals and potentially different audiences. While MindJolt appears to be positioning itself as a home for indie game development across a range of game types and genres, GSN Games are very focused on arcade and casual titles like match-3 or video poker. Most of the games are made in-house or licensed on a game-by-game basis from other developers.
“We coin it as casual games, more than arcade games,” Miyoshi says. “Our focus is building deeper games leveraging similar mechanics. It’s all confusing and blurry — what I hate is when people say ‘casual versus social.’ Enterprise builders or CityVille — those get coined as the typical social game. In my mind, they’re simulations, not casual games because it requires a tutorial to get up to speed and has more complex gameplay. It’s not [using] naturally understood game mechanics, which is how I would [characterize] casual games.”
As an example, Miyoshi demos one of many match-3 style games available under the Strategy tab on the Games portal called Vegas Nights. This game asks players to match Las Vegas-themed items like gold bars and poker chips to complete the match-3, but matching four or more items won the player a free spin on a slot machine simulation to the right hand side of the match-3 board. Winning in the slot machine sim nets the player one of several power-ups that can be deployed to the match-3 board to achieve higher scores.
“What we do is take this [match-3] game and make it into a much deeper gameplay experience with multiple levels, more social [features], making it more engaging than similar types of games that we’ve already done,” Miyoshi explains, further clarifying what he means by “deeper” casual experience. The social element comes more from tournament play, which appears to be a standard component for games portals.
Beyond Facebook, GSN is just starting to explore a mobile expansion. Already, the company has a small mobile team formed at the company’s Massachusetts location — but Miyoshi is interested in bringing on additional staff here in the San Francisco Bay Area.
“We’re still working through the [mobile] strategy at the moment,” Miyoshi says. “Clearly one strategy would be to take our existing games and run them through Flash on the Android through a browser. But obviously they want to have a presence across all major platforms. The next major step is the iOS platform and finding out if HTML5 is the right answer.”
Source: Inside Social Games
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