Gamasutra: "Social game developer Playdom raised $33 million in venture capital financing from new backers Bessemer Venture Partners, New World Ventures, and Steamboat Ventures, the last of which is The Walt Disney Company's investment fund for digital media, consumer, and technology companies in the U.S. and Asia.
This new round brings the total amount of funding raised by Playdom up to $76 million -- last November, the company picked up $43 million from New Enterprise Associates, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Norwest Venture Partners."
Product-Reviews writes: Avengers Alliance is an amazing game, but is often marred with Playdom’s questionable business tactics in failing to communicate with their customers in a timely manner, combined with the frequent content updates without fixing up bugs and errors that have been present in the game for months.
Seems nobody on N4G plays Avengers Alliance.. because if they did, they would know what a mess it is at the moment!
Go to visit any game on MySpace from today, and you will be greeted with a page telling you that the page can not be found. That is because MySpace has unexpectedly shut down all games on the site; ultimately alienating tens of thousands of its players; leaving them and several game developers in the dark.
that reminds me, i haven't logged in in yrs. i need to see if any of my "friends" are still on it...i got an email telling me they rebuilt the site and it is designed more around music...i bet justin timberlake is kicking himself over that investment.
A million dollars isn't cool, you know what's cool? Losing a million dollars on a social site.
A new patch has been implemented into Marvel: Avengers Alliance today. Its main feature is not the long-anticipated release of the PVE season two that everyone was expecting; but instead it is the release of PVP Season 8 - with Red Hulk as the reward hero for reaching the rank of Adamantium.
