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Return of the French Google Tax: New Government, Same Nonsense
France is now saying it will enforce what’s been dubbed the “Google Tax” [FR], a sort of customs tariff on web products and services sold from anywhere outside of France. Previous governments have tried coming up with a way to apply VAT on digital purchases from foreign companies, from a song on iTunes or an […]
SongPop: Where Cloning Good Design can take you
SongPop by Freshplanet now crossed over 2M DAUs, and is on a trajectory to reach the top 10 of Facebook games. The Android and iOS app aren’t doing too bad either. Its growth and design are strongly reminiscent of Draw Something. Rewind a bit, and you have a game called “we are music” launched at least a […]
DragonBox: gaming children into learning algebra
The claim that a game could teach basic algebra, symbol manipulation, and equation solving in a few hours, while being truly fun and engaging, sounds just like another inflated marketing pitch. But play DragonBox, by We Want To Know, and this suddenly seems like an understatement. Stop bitching, start a revolution The universal challenge of […]
Facebook Games: The success of casual and the Big French Three
In France, the more ambition a social game has, the smaller its audience seems to be. At least for the 3 biggest ones. France has 3 social game developers with an audience above 500K daily active users(DAU): Telaxo, Kobojo, and Ubisoft. In this list, world-renown Ubisoft is only 3rd (520k), while little-known Telaxo is 1st (1.2M), with […]