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The Game of Real Life: Ultimate Social Game Beginner’s Memorandum

You want everything to be a black and white battle of good vs. evil. You want to go out, conquer your dreams, and come home with something to show for it. In some ways, every decision, every move you make is permanent, driving life forward through endless twists & turns to find direction. On the [...]

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Fantage Introduces eCoins Microtransaction System, Star Searchers Rejoice

Good news for those who prefer pay to play when it comes to customizing your virtual avatar and abode – Fantage (one of the fastest-growing virtual playgrounds for kids, and a TriplePoint client) has a fancy new microtransaction system, as well as a new BilltoMobile payment option. Why microtransactions? The Fantage eCoin system was created [...]

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Kwedit Offers Yet Another Way to Buy Items in Online Games

Kwedit Inc.’s  motto is “Play now, pay later,” and it allows gamers to do just that. So long as a user is at least 13 years old, they can sign up for a virtual credit line with Kwedit. This will allow you to perform virtual IOU’s within games that have adopted the system, which see [...]

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Europeans Spent Over $1.6 Billion on Casual Games Last Year

While anyone can spend a limitless amount of time playing any number of casual online games for free, almost every option out there includes some sort of microtransaction service, whereby someone acquires an exclusive in-game item, power-up, or other enhancement using real funds. And while you may initially believe that most individuals would be satisfied [...]

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New Kongregate Badges: Dream World

The new badges available to Kongregate players today are a little different: In order to earn the gaming network’s latest achievements, you will need to play a game called Dream World, a turn-based RPG that works very much like a Facebook game. Specifically, players will go through all of the usual RPG tropes, including fighting [...]

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Zynga Reintroducing “Offers” for Game Currency

Two months after pulling FishVille offline due to accusations of scamming with the game’s “offers” payment system, Zynga has stated that they will soon be offering offers once more. Spotted in CEO Mark Pincus’ blog by VentureBeat, the company’s new plan is to work exclusively with reputable, trusted merchants at first, and “phase in more [...]

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Facebook Credits: Uniform Virtual Currency for Social Games

Are Facebook Credits the next Web Currency? Should PayPal be worried? The social media gurus over at Mashable say yes – it will take a while – but yes. Facebook introduced the Credits system back in April as a way to simply give friends spending money in the virtual gift shop. It’s now also part [...]

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