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(124)Source: Amazon.com: Bestsellers in Video Games > Xbox 360 > Hardware
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Here’s the story told by early Facebook employee Ezra Callahan:
True story: in the very early days of Facebook, Sean Parker wanted to make Facebook’s mascot a hedgehog. We had early plans to build a local business program around each college on the site (a Yelp-like service similar to what later became Facebook Pages). As part of that, Sean wanted us to send each participating business a little blue stuffed hedgehog. Matt Cohler and I even sourced a couple companies to make them.
Sean actually wanted us to get a real hedgehog for the office. Turns out they aren’t street legal in California, or something, but I guess he found a way to obtain one in Nevada. Fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on your affinity for hedgehogs) Sean couldn’t convince any of us to drive there to get one.
The local business program was shelved mid 2005 (we decided a revenue product wasn’t as important after the Accel financing), and Sean let his dream of the hedgehog go with it.
If I’m not mistaken, a couple employees who live near the facebook campus own a hedgehog today. I won’t name them in case they are, in fact, illegal, but I guess that sorta counts.
Source: All Facebook
144 days in the top 100 Xbox 360(124)When the PSPgo was released without a media drive, you can understand gamers being a little upset that all the games on UMD were not compatible. If you wanted to play them on a PSPgo, you had to buy the games again even if you still owned the UMD version. With the announcement of the PSP [...]
Source: Geek.com Games
You can enter to win a bunch of prizes, including a trip to San Francisco (that's where we're located!) and a meeting with series creator Yuji Horrii. You can find the contest rules here, but basically, you need to start following the Twitter account @NintendoAmerica and answer the trivia questions that are posted.
The first 100 users to provide correct answers in Round 1 move onto Round 2 and the list gets whittled down from there. If you love DQVI, you should go join in on the fun. If you somehow end up winning, you can even come by the GamePro offices. We won't let you in, and security will rough you up, but you can at least drive by the building.
Source: Daily News from GamePro.com
In Blobs Hunter, a mix of physics, puzzle and action game developed by Hanuman, your goal is to drive all blobs to the bucket while avoiding different obstacles. Use the different platforms available in the game window and act fast if you want to score points! 20 levels. Have fun!
Source: FreeGamesNews
With massive growth of almost 1.4 million MAU in the last couple weeks, and a daily active user count rising somewhat more slowly, the game could be getting some new help on the marketing side.
According to our Appdata tracking service, poker games are filling four of the top 20 spots with other hobbies such as drawing, cooking, and bingo showing a nice traffic increase over the last week.
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A newcomer to the scene is OMGPOP’s Draw My Thing, a Pictionary-type game that allows players to synchronously play with their Facebook friends. The game saw an increase of 370,000 monthly players in the past week, in part due to cross promotion with Cupcake Corner, another OMGPOP title. Draw My Thing does still have some issues with matching up players with each other, but once those problems are ironed out we should see the game continue to flourish.
We took a close look at Cooking Mama with a full review earlier this month. While we felt it had a long way to go to catch up with the Nintendo DS version, the game is starting to gain steam with 516,000 MAU, a 43% increase in players in the last week. Whether or not Cooking Mama will continue to climb the charts is still hard to predict as it depends if players will be able to handle the Flash performance issues that plague the game.
Finally, GodsWar Online is still going strong as it reaches an all-time high of 1.8m MAU. While IGG’s fantasy 3D MMORPG isn’t retaining players particularly well, a steady stream of new and predominantly male players are coming to the game. Kabam’s Dragons of Atlantis is another fantasy game geared to a male audience that has done well over the past week despite being a more niche genre of social game.
Source: Inside Social Games
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Tuesday, February 1, 2011
