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0 Playdom acquires Hive7.com as part of social game aquisition spree

A few days after announcing its latest financing, Playdom is making deals again. The social gaming company just announced that it has acquired...

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0 Boku sees big growth in mobile payment transactions

Mobile payment enabler Boku is announcing today that it’s now handling more than a million transactions per month.

San Francisco-based Boku raised...

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0 Playdom Buys Hive7

Mountain View-based social gaming firm Playdom said late last night that it has acquired Palo Alto-based Hive7.com, a social gaming startup whole lead...

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0 Playdom Continues Shopping Spree; Acquires Social Gaming Startup Hive7

Fresh off a $33 million funding round, Playdom is making its fifth acquisition of the year today. The gaming giant is buying social gaming startup...

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0 ioDrive, Changing the Way You Code

Our brilliant chief architect JD have been playing recently with one cool pricey toy from Fusion-IO. After running IODrive through our demanding MMO...

  • Source: hive7.com (Company Blog)
  • Date: Mar 14, 2009
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0 link: pretty loaded

Pretty Loaded is a nice collection of beautiful loading animations.  Its interesting to see how far we’ve come from the progress bar.
Pretty Loaded

  • Source: hive7.com (Company Blog)
  • Date: Jan 29, 2009
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0 Be inspired: Onesize’s new motion reel

While I like watching reels okay, I don’t normally post them, but this one is particularly good for the sound track & effects as well as editing....

  • Source: hive7.com (Company Blog)
  • Date: Jan 28, 2009
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0 Users reminisce about Knighthood over the past year…

The Good Old Days Post

When a game can create moments powerful enough for people to feel nostalgia, I get a warm tingly feeling that we’ve done...

  • Source: hive7.com (Company Blog)
  • Date: Jan 28, 2009
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0 Put down the abstract factory and get something done

This may sound short sighted, and it is. In fact, that's the point. Projects change. You have to adapt. You will never know how your code will be used...

  • Source: hive7.com (Company Blog)
  • Date: Jan 26, 2009
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0 Big brands do mmos

Big brands that have strong content around entertainment are finding that the best way to go online and build a successful community on the web is to...

  • Source: hive7.com (Company Blog)
  • Date: Dec 4, 2008
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0 Abby’s Magic Academy…

Thought I’d share some more art from our archives. This one being a game based around a magic academy similar to Hotter Potter and Co. It didn’t...

  • Source: hive7.com (Company Blog)
  • Date: Nov 21, 2008
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0 Some creative new game concepts

The Unfinished Swan - Tech Demo 9/2008 from Ian Dallas on Vimeo.
Touchgrind Trailer - Illusion Labs from Streetlab on Vimeo.

  • Source: hive7.com (Company Blog)
  • Date: Nov 20, 2008
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0 Mobties goes limited Beta

We just recently launched our second game called Mobties.  Its a mob flavored social strategy game based off of knighthood.  While knighthood was...

  • Source: hive7.com (Company Blog)
  • Date: Nov 19, 2008
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0 “I’m here for the people”

That’s what our users say when asked why they’ve still been playing our game knighthood for the past year.
I get excited when I hear this because it...

  • Source: hive7.com (Company Blog)
  • Date: Nov 9, 2008
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0 Vampires!

In spirit of Halloween I thought I’d resurrect some artwork from a past Hive7 game that was in development around this time last year. At the time...

  • Source: hive7.com (Company Blog)
  • Date: Oct 23, 2008
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0 what is social gaming?

I get asked this question quite a bit.
Social gaming can mean a lot of different things, as it is a very new gaming market that people are just...

  • Source: hive7.com (Company Blog)
  • Date: Oct 22, 2008
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0 Art that moves you

When your game experience is composed of still 2D images, it becomes even more important to make every detail count in order to try to bring to life,...

  • Source: hive7.com (Company Blog)
  • Date: Oct 9, 2008
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