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Assemble Your Own Oddball Avengers Team On Facebook

Cyclops! Black Cat! Invisible Woman! Facebook Avengers Assemble! Facebook’s Marvel: Avengers Alliance cares not for comic book continuity, focusing instead on giving players some sweet choices, and then making them pay for them.


January 10, 2012
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Assemble Your Very Own Avengers Team On Facebook

Step into the steel-toed boots of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Nick Fury and recruit a team of super-powered friends to save the world from Marvel’s most wanted in Marvel: Avengers Alliance, coming soon to Facebook.


May 15, 2011
News

Disney Studio Coughs Up $3 Million For Violating Kiddie Gamers’ Privacy

A $US3 million settlement by Playdom, the Disney social games studio, sends a pretty clear message that the U.S. Child Online Privacy Protection Act isn’t messing around. Violate it, and it will be expensive.


November 28, 2010
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FarmVille Maker Settles Trade Secret Lawsuit With Disney

Zynga, makers of Farm- Frontier- and all things -ville on Facebook, slapped Disney with a lawsuit after it acquired social games competitor Playdom and, Zynga alleges, hired off ex-Zynga workers to learn its “secret sauce.” The matter is now settled.


July 28, 2010
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Disney Buys Playdom

Disney is purchasing social gaming company Playdom (Social City, Sorority Life) for half a billion dollars. EA’s got Playfish. Disney now has Playdom. FarmVille maker Zynga still rules. Facebook gaming’s huge and the big companies are clearly very into it.