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hat tip to mr takahashi over at venturebeat for pointing out a new DFC Intelligence report on the projected market size for free to play online games. after publishing an earlier report that pegged the overall global market size at $7bn in 2015, they have now predicted that the market in English language markets will be $2bn by 2015. I am not quite sure if this is a North American estimate, or North America + UK, but last time I checked, many other growing online gaming markets are English language as well (including...
anyone else look at Inside Social Games weekly fastest growing FB games by MAU list, and think that this is a reflection of how much revenues FB is deriving from game publishers? and little else? i mean, in all seriousness, when this list isn't filled with Zynga games, i feel like it is a down week in terms of ad revenues on FB. it looks like Playdom, with their new Disney balance sheet, is now spending the big bucks "acquiring" MAUs, aka paying for users to build initial crowd of players on their games. i am very...
Hello. My name is Jason, and here you will find some thoughts on the all things digital media, but with a focus on a couple of things i love: movies, music and games. I used to be a VC at FirstMark Capital in NYC, and now lead the International Publishing efforts at online game publisher/developer Riot Games in LA. It goes without saying, but all opinions found on this site are not representative of opinions of either FirstMark Capital or Riot Games. They are my own personal random rants.
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