Social Gaming Roundup: Dis-N-Gaged, Virtual Farming History, and More
Nokia shutting down N-Gage — The mobile gaming service will be folded into Nokia’s Ovi app store. This is after the handset manufacturer spent millions on building and promoting it. A complex developer platform and competition from the iPhone contributed to its demise, PaidContent details.
The history of virtual farming — Ever wondered where FarmVille came from? Read about the contested history of the genre in Asia, in this fascinating write-up on VentureBeat. One fascinating anecdote is that vegetable-stealing is the single most popular feature in some Chinese version of the game.
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