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Nanigans launches in Europe to help companies scale up their Facebook advertising

May 8, 2013 by LiamBoogar

For companies who have been experimenting with Facebook advertising and have begun to identify the right times, demographics, and ad-formats to target their audience with, Nanigans‘ Facebook advertising platform might be the best way to scale. Founded in 2010, the Boston-based company has announced its European launch today, fresh off...

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Kickstarter, MyMajorCompany and other big names headline Videogame Economics Forum on May 16-17th

Apr 29, 2013 by Trista Bridges

There’s a solid line-up planned for this year’s Videogame Economics Forum (VEF). As financing in the gaming sector continues to be a major challenge, particularly in social gaming where Zynga’s problems seem to have complicated things for everyone, new financing models have now become all the rage. Crowdfunding has been at the...

[Enterprise][Games][Hardware][Mobile]

In alternate reality where Windows 8 was called XboxOS….

Apr 11, 2013 by LiamBoogar

While the Rude Baguette tends to stick to covering the French tech market, I couldn’t resist speaking about a topic which has been bugging me for quite some time. Imagine for a moment, if you will, that Microsoft had decided to call Windows 8 “XboxOS” instead of Metro, or Windows...

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Pretty Simple Games now amongst top 10 game developers on Facebook

Mar 27, 2013 by Trista Bridges

Pretty Simple Games, which we wrote about recently here and here, continues its spectacular rise in a space that has been challenged as of late. In just a few months, their hit game Criminal Case has reached 4 million daily active users (as of yesterday), which has put them squarely in...

[Events][Games]

Videogame Economics Forum launches the debate on games funding and financing May 16-17th

Mar 25, 2013 by Trista Bridges

Last year saw the inauguration of the first the Videogame Economic Forum (aka VEF), which was organized by Pole Magelis and based in Angouleme, the home of one of France’s leading games and interactive universities ENJMIN. Although there are various games conferences that take place each year in Europe including...

[Games][Mobile]

Angry Birds creator Rovio releases “The Croods” in France, Germany, Finland, UK & Canada only

Mar 12, 2013 by LiamBoogar

A new Rovio title The Croods has just hit the App Store, and curiously enough the Finish creator of Angry Birds has not launched in the US, but seems to be testing the waters across Europe. Working with Dreamworks in partnership with the soon to be released movie of the same...

[European StartUp Scene][Games][Mobile][Social]

3 French games studios in trouble – are Social & Mobile still keys to success for games studios?

Feb 15, 2013 by Serge Versille

Two social gaming studios publicly announced they were closing these past few weeks in France, Mandala and Qozmo. We often hear from companies having a hard time that the Facebook market has been becoming tougher in recent years, and if several companies in the same space fail in a short...

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