October 13, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team The world of mobile gaming is expanding all the time, along with mobile commerce and, well, everything mobile. There are tips and tricks all over for improving your mobile-optimized website and ensuring customer satisfaction and ease of use with your m-commerce platform. Everyone is getting involved, and [...]
Kiip: Set a Guinness World Record with Your Mobile Gaming Skills
September 29, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team “What does ‘high score’ mean? New high score, is that bad? What does that mean? Did I break it?” – Grandma’s Boy One of the great pinnacles for every gamer out there is to rank the highest score in a video-game, to be the top player in [...]
Netflix CEO Explains Separation Of Services
September 20, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Millions of Netflix subscribers received an apologetic email early Monday morning from Reed Hastings, co-founder and CEO of the company. The email is a slightly briefer version of a post from Hastings on Netflix’s blog that provides a lengthy apology for the lack of communication to subscribers [...]
Bam! Pow! Biff! Boom! DC Universe Online Goes ‘Freemium’
September 20, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team In a world wide web far, far away the gaming realm was at odds with the villains and the superheros of the DC Universe battling amongst themselves for something, something about the darkside. Okay, maybe the sci-fi/comic references are a bit crossed here, however game boys and [...]
Look Out For Location-Based Mobile Gaming
September 15, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Red Robot Labs, creators of the Life is Crime app, is a start-up devoted to developing games that realize the potential of location-based mobile gaming. Players in “Life is Crime” can fight each other at real locations on their city’s map for control of properties in battles [...]
GameStop Opening Games, Removing Coupons for Competition
August 26, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team The world of gaming is constantly changing, and the industry has started to show significant support for a change in content delivery. What used to be an industry dependent on physical media delivery is now a business focusing on online content delivery, via the “cloud”. A new [...]
What Are People Buying on Mobile Game Ecommerce Solutions?
August 17, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team The rise of smartphones (and tablets, sure…) has also meant the rise of mobile gaming. Mobile gaming is this weird avenue of both social and casual games (indeed, most social games would be considered “casual,” by video gaming’s previous ruling class of console and PC gamers). People [...]
Google+ Unleashes GAMES!
August 15, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team We love online games here at Zippycart. And while we never (EVER!) play games on company time, we do use company time to research the latest trends in video games of all kinds. One trend we’ve paid especially close attention to has been “freemium,” the practice of [...]
EA and Popcap Games Relationship Develops
August 12, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Last month EA games, one of the largest video game developers in the US, acquired Popcap games, which Barry Cottle, executive vice president of EA Interactive, referred to in a recent interview as “the Pixar of the social games space.” With praise like that, it’s easy to [...]
Zynga – Social Gaming Giant – Having Legal Woes
August 2, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team A little while back we discussed Zynga filing for their initial public offering to help raise $1 billion. They were (and still are) in the middle of a lawsuit with Vostu, in which Zynga is the plaintiff. The social gaming ecommerce solution is now in another legal [...]
Zynga and Cityville Venture to China – Without Facebook!
July 29, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team How do you say “Cha-ching!” in Chinese (and in which dialect)? Zynga, whose massively popular social games are a hit on Facebook for computers and mobile devices alike, is launching its hottest game – “Cityville” – in China. Who won’t be there? Facebook. The world’s most popular [...]
Average iPhone and Android In-App Shopping Cart Reaches $14
July 26, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Most iPhone and Android users are familiar with how freemium App content works. First, the user downloads a game from their respective App Store, which they can then play for free. The number of features or levels available to the free user are intentionally limited, encouraging the [...]
Gaikai Cloud Gaming Service Raises Money
July 21, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Cloud-based services are the big thing right now. Amazon led the race to the market by launching a music storage system without major label support. Their system allows anyone to sign up for five gigs of music storage for free and get an additional fifteen if they [...]
EA Adds PopCap to their Shopping Cart
July 13, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Electronic Arts, one of the largest video game producers in the world, has purchased casual game producer PopCap for $650 million in cash and $100 million in stock. PopCap’s portfolio includes mobile games such as Bejeweled, Plants vs Zombies, and Zuma. The purchase will help EA expand [...]
Freemium vs. Premium: Which Wins?
July 11, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team It’s a trend that we here at Zippycart have been following with interest for some time: online social and mobile games that are free to play, but that feature in-game currencies and virtual shopping carts. Players use the features to buy enhancements which alter or improve gameplay. [...]
Star Wars Galaxies Fades Out of Existence
June 28, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team If you felt a disturbance in the Force this weekend, like thousands of voices cried out for an instant and were then silenced, it’s because Star Wars Galaxies has been slated for termination. The move comes after rounds of talks between Sony and Lucas Arts, the company [...]
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