In Real Life

What A Year’s Worth Of Tweeting About Games Looks Like

The 150 most commonly used words in more than 28 million games-related tweets, July 2009 to present, as compiled by AggreTweet.


February 25, 2010
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Blur Gets All Twittery

Bizarre Creations’ Blur is hopping on the Twitter bandwagon, giving players the ability to send customised Tweets while playing through the developer’s latest racing title.


January 15, 2010
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Zynga Gamers Chip In For Haiti Quake Relief

Games on Facebook have joined the relief cause for Haiti, with Zynga’s FarmVille, Mafia Wars and Zynga Poker offering “limited edition social goods” for sale, the proceeds of which will entirely benefit funds serving earthquake victims in that nation.


September 3, 2009
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Gaming Social Network Launches Revamped Site

The game-oriented social network GamerDNA launched an enhanced version of its site today, promising it not only delivers gamers to the kinds titles they’d enjoy, but also other gamers they’d enjoy playing with.


July 21, 2009
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Ubisoft Opens Facebook Gaming Portal

Ubisoft already has one game up and running on a new Facebook portal it just opened. TickTock tests your knowledge of your friends and then, naturally, pesters you to pester them.


January 12, 2009
In Real Life

Following the Game Industry via Twitter

If you’re on Twitter and have nothing useful to say or, worse, have no friends, here’s a listing of dozens of accounts used by the game industry — some official, others personal accounts.