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New Platform for Game Developers Allows Non-Disruptive Brand Adv...

DaniWeb IT Discussion Community (Featured Entries)  Wed, 03/02/2011 - 13:28

Tap Me, Inc. launched the industry’s first in-game advertising platform this week.

This platform gives designers the ability to place ads that are in context with the game being played, rather than disrupting it.

Gamers will no longer have to get rid of banner ads or pop ups in order to continue or start their games.

Ads are incorporated on the screen in a non-obtrusive way.


 

Chinese censors force World of Warcraft offline

DaniWeb IT Discussion Community (Featured Entries)  Mon, 07/20/2009 - 06:00

With some 11.5 million subscribers playing it worldwide, there is no denying that World of Warcraft is one popular online game.

Nowhere more so than in China, where it has been reported around 5 million of those subscribers are based. It should come as no surprise that not everyone in China is a fan, however.

Unfortunately for game developers Blizzard Entertainment it would appear that the Chinese government might be in the dislike camp, no surprise there then.

A planned upgrade to the game which involved moving to a new operator in China, an online gaming outfit by the name of NetEase, has...