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March 21st, 2012 by Music Ally

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US developer OMGPOP is having a massive hit with mobile game Draw Something (30m downloads and counting in six weeks), but it's about to launch a Facebook social game with a specific musical focus

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March 19th, 2012 by Music Ally

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There's no music angle to this story for now, but it's an interesting sign of how rapidly something can blow up on Apple's App Store.

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February 20th, 2012 by Music Ally

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Enrique Iglesias is making his second in-game appearance in Zynga's social game CityVille. The singer is starring in a new mission called 'Love Story', themed around Valentine's Day.

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February 15th, 2012 by Music Ally

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Social games giant Zynga has announced its first financial results since going public, reporting revenues of $311m for the fourth quarter of 2011, and $1.14bn for the year as a whole.

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January 27th, 2012 by Music Ally

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Social music gaming firm MXP4 got in early with its Midem announcement yesterday, saying it will be showing off two new Facebook games at the industry conference in Cannes.

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December 22nd, 2011 by Music Ally

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2011 was the year Lady Gaga and Michael Buble appeared in FarmVille, but Justin Bieber has inked a different kind of agreement with a social games firm.

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November 11th, 2011 by Music Ally

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Three new reports are out giving some stats on the growth of the games industry, and specifically the impact of digital - which in that context, includes PC games distributed through services like Steam,...

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September 22nd, 2011 by Music Ally

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Lady Gaga's deal with Zynga for her own branded farm in FarmVille made a lot of people sit up and take new notice of the potential for music-related virtual items in social games. However, not that many...

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September 6th, 2011 by Music Ally

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Kristian Segerstrale is one of the more successful UK-based entrepreneurs, having sold his social games company Playfish to Electronic Arts in a deal worth up to $400 million. He gave a speech at an event...

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