Playdom Acquires Acclaim

Social game developer buys Asian MMO importer and agrees: being black is kinda awesome.

The larger trend is interesting. As the traditional video game industry slows down, its assets, its people, and even the names of its institutions are being taken over by the new gaming industry.

Well, that’s nice.

  • http:/geldonsgaming.blogspot.com geldonyetich

    With casual-pandering developers on one end and rampant piracy on the other, the PC platform has migrated in some directions that make it real hard for core gamer to enjoy themselves.   But, hey, at least we’ve still got the indies.

  • http://bdadv.blogspot.com bonedead

    Ugly! And geldon’s link is a faildog. <3

  • http://geldonsgaming.blogspot.com geldonyetich

    A screwed pooch indeed.  Alas, I can’t fix it once it’s posted.

  • Mist

    This blog is the same color as urine.  It’s very unpleasant.

  • Scott Jennings

    HAY GUESS WHO IS COLOR BLIND GUYZ

    (can’t go wrong with white I guess)

  • Freakazoid

    They can have their casual games. Let me know when Throwback Entertainment re-releases NBA Jam.

  • Zuzax

    I play to dom!

  • http://geldonsgaming.blogspot.com geldonyetich

    Mist: This blog is the same color as urine.  It’s very unpleasant.

    That explains the association I felt it had with the baby graphic.

    It was disappointed baby urine!

  • http://www.mmomisanthrope.wordpress.com Dblade

    Just usual consolidations, really. Same thing happened around the PSone era when a lot of developers became first or 2nd party or were bought out. Of course, doesn’t help there’s a glut of F2P out there, and most of it is crap.

  • Vetarnias

    <blockquote>(can’t go wrong with white I guess)</blockquote>
    Isn’t that what they usually say in Texas? (Bad, bad Vetty.)

  • Aufero

    I’m not sure how a company that bought the Acclaim name four years ago to promote titles like Dance! Online and Ponystars qualifies as “the traditional video game industry.”
    Acclaim died six years ago under circumstances that had nothing to do with the rise of social media based gaming – the continued use of its zombified corpse isn’t exactly news.  (Although it is a bit mystifying, since I doubt the intended market for Playdom’s games associates Acclaim with anything but the stack of  old Nintendo cartridges gathering dust in the back of dad’s closet.)

  • hitnrun

    Am I concerned that casual browser games are future of the medium? No.
    Am I concerned that we’re going to spend the next three years stuck in neutral while all the venture capital percolates in this idiotic bubble? Yes.

  • Gx1080

    Corporate smucks, once again, forget how hard is to get people’s money without a suscription and/or a “boxed” game.

  • http://geldonsgaming.blogspot.com geldonyetich

    Gx1080: Corporate smucks, once again, forget how hard is to get people’s money without a suscription and/or a “boxed” game.

    I’d like to see some statistics. I hear them complaining, you’d think that so many people pirate PC games that a boxed game is so much wasted cardboard.

  • http://www.antipwn.com/blog IainC

    Gx1080: Corporate smucks, once again, forget how hard is to get people’s money without a suscription and/or a “boxed” game.

     

    Which is why F2P, downloadable, no-subscription services like Farmville, Maple Story, Habbo Hotel, Mabinogi and all the rest are losing money hand over fist!

    Wait….

    What you mean is ‘Corporate smucks, once again, forget how hard is to get my money without a subscription and/or a “boxed” game.’

  • Lenin

    Actually I think by the time all the losers in Console and MMO-World are done thumbing their noses at Zynga’s “crap gameplay” Zynga will have moved to Stage Two of taking over the interactive medium, and will be supplying an ever-wider variety of ever-more-compelling gameplay experiences.

    Who’s to stop them? Old Fart Schmuck Ernest Adams? Gimme a serious break!

  • Vetarnias

    Lenin: Old Fart Schmuck Ernest Adams?

     

    Derek Smart.