Social Gaming Roundup: A Tough Week, Cyworld, Miraphonic, Storm8, Glu, EA

A baptism of fire for social gaming — Last week, Facebook told large developers and offer providers that it would be cracking down on scammy offers. This was followed by a TechCrunch article over the weekend that blasted the industry for mobile quiz ads and other forms of scammy direct-response advertising that all too often have appeared in offer walls within social games. Although the severity of the scam problem is still not known, offer companies have been pulling out questionable ads, and a number of others have been making public pronouncements about their own scam solutions.