Social Gaming Roundup: Mergers, Funding, Azure Toolkit, PlayPhone, & More

Amazon Moves Into Social Games — IndustryGamers reports that RPG game designer Jonathan Tweet has been hired by Amazon for what could be the social games job they wanted to fill back in May. Details aren’t immediately clear, nor has there been any announcement of a Google-developed social game.

Azure Toolkit for Social Games — A preview of the Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games has been made available this week. Through the new toolkit, developers will be able to more easily build social games on the Windows Azure platform, and includes accelerators, libraries, developer tools, and samples tailored to .NET

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